[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Didn't I read on this list someone say Ethenol is a negative return? i.e., it takes more than a gallon of gasoline to produce a gallon of ethenol?
I don't know if it's actually a negative return, but it's not really a "green" fuel because of how it's produced. Many of the new ethanol plants being built are fired by coal:
"Late last year in Goldfield, Iowa, a refinery began pumping out a stream of ethanol, which supporters call the clean, renewable fuel of the future.
"There's just one twist: The plant is burning 300 tons of coal a day to turn corn into ethanol - the first US plant of its kind to use coal instead of cleaner natural gas.
"An hour south of Goldfield, another coal-fired ethanol plant is under construction in Nevada, Iowa. At least three other such refineries are being built in Montana, North Dakota, and Minnesota."
(http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0323/p01s01-sten.html)
