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Is Ethanol really the answer?

I recently read an article in the magazine "Consumer Report" that disussed the use of ethanol and if it was truly an alternative fuel worth investing in. I was unable to find the article online but I discovered another link that shares many of the same views. The concern of many is that the energy used to produce ethanol is greater than the actual energy received from the ethanol. Tests done by "Consumer Report" showed that ethanot was much less efficient than gasoline getting much worse gas mileage. They had calculated that it would cost a person more to run a car on ethanol than gasoline even if gasoline was more expensive.
Further calculations, done by the author of the link report that by the time corn is grown, shipped to the ethanol plant, and made into ethanol it simply is not worth the output. This concerns me because the government is giving a lot of money to ethanol research and production when it may not even have a positive affect on our country.

Ethanol Concerns

posted by Anonymous @ 9/20/2006 04:17:00 PM