Date:         Sat, 5 Mar 2005 19:24:14 -0600
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: gas prices- a canadian perspective
Comments: To: Greg Potts <Greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
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> The bad news is that alcohol as an additive burns hotter and produces
> less power than gasoline. My air-cooled buses are going to hate that.
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I am all for paying farmers for fuel rather than mid-east royal
families, but I've seen studies--don't know if they're legit or
not--that show that the energy benefit from the ethanol is less than
the energy used to produce it.

Vegetable diesel might do better. Besides, the carbon load it puts into
the air came from last year's crop, so there's no net co2 gain unlike
petro fuel which loads the atmosphere with carbon from long ago that
otherwise wouldn't be there.

Jim