Date:         Tue, 5 Apr 2011 08:32:09 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Report: gas mileage, in town, 1.9L AT
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On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:

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> Ten percent ethanol knocks my mileage down about 15%.  I try to avoid it,
> following VW recommendations.  I can do that in Oklahoma, but not
> everywhere.  Now we hear that vendors will be going to 15% ethanol.  What
> part of burning food for motor fuel is stupid do people not understand?
>
> mcneely
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> >
>
  Isn't there data showing there are more effective ways to make ethanol?
Ways that waste less food-producing farm land? The US, we make the stuff
from corn, right?  And we pay Ag-business a  big fat corn-subsidy, to help
us "get off oil"?
 It's my understanding that there are crops other than corn that work
significantly better, but we don't pay the Ag-business to grow those. We
lose out.   We get to pay extra, at the pump and at tax time and at the
grocery store.