Heralded by Bush and now Obama as a good sustainable replacement fuel for gasoline. But is it?

A little quick research will clearly show that ethanol mandates by the government have already resulted in many unintended consequences. Here are just a few, increased ground ozone pollution directly as a result of burning ethanol fuels (ozone pollutant a byproduct of burning this fuel), increases of nitrogen pollution in waterways from fertilizers used to grow corn (contributes greatly to the annual dead zone (hypoxia) in the Gulf of Mexico), increases in food prices (due to gov. mandates that a percentage of all corn grown must go towards ethanol production= higher prices for consumable corn for humans as well as livestock), ethanol has a lower energy content than gasoline, so to meet the same energy demands, more gallons of ethanol would have to be produced, damage done to many engines across the nation (especially outboard boat engines).

I'm no expert in this field, to say the least, but, the more I read about ethanol fuel, the angrier I get that our government is shoving another bad pill down our throats. I did not get My information from Fox, Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck etc., This information can be had even at sources such as NPR, Scientific America, Climate Central, Green America etc. So, do some research of your own and inform your friends so that the U.S. Government can be pushed to stop this stupidity.

We should be rallying together from left to right to stop government ethanol mandates now!

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I recently drove and 400 miles and got 17.9 mpg on ethanol free gas.... had to burn ethanol on the return trip and got 15.2 mpg....

Yeah, but You helped saved the planet on the way back. lol!

Seriously, I've had the same experience as of late.16.6mpg on ethanol free fuel.....14.4mpg on the 10% ethanol laced garbage in the Guzzler. 🤔

Ethanol is really good for small engines like chainsaws and lawnmowers.....

Ethanol is the nectar of the gods!

Couple that with...

HEMP

The world's PREMIER food source...

and you'd have happy proles abound!

Aren't newer model cars designed and built to run on blended fuel

I think clean, safe (relatively) nuclear enrgy is the way to go.

85% ethanol, giant solar farms, and giant wind farms are the way to go. You people need to be thinking about all the green jobs you're helping to create!

True dat...strip away the subsidies and govt. involvement and it wouldn't sustain itself.

It's a fraud perpetrated on the US citizenry.

END THE MADNESS!

STOP THE PORK SPENDING!!!!

man, you really want to piss off the Mexicans huh..? 😕

NO ,not all... Not above a 10% blend...

If you wanna find out, run a tank of E85 through you car and see what happens...

Hey...Hey...

Who said I have any vested interest in this. I just care about what's best for the USA! Go green, baby!

Gene I know, my post was 98.2% sarcasm......

We had a couple stations around that actually sold non ethanol for small motor tools......guess who didn't like it.....freaking wackos. Now there has been some talks at least locally to be able to do so.

And Wheel is right^.