Ethanol is more energy monster snake-oil-and people who pushed and pushed for it the most energetically, manically, in their ever-emotionally driven insanity???
Environmental lobbyist fucks, flakes, and people who swallow Global Warming disinformation as fervently-there are at least 5 alternatives ready to go, to replace oil. Fuck oil-shut it down, that's the only way to stop the money machine taking the planet down the road of total control-they are afraid- and watch them scramble here t'wards the end of oil as the main fuel source, as prices reach $250-$300 a barrel before 2 more years go by-

5 gallons of waste vegetable oil and a few chemicals make 4 gallons of fuel to run a diesel engine for about 60 cents a gallon.....

and since I mentioned GW and there are some still in the dark???...The planet belches more than we do, get a grip on the reality of the planet you inhabit-Take into account also the sun, and you have your warm globe.....the experts(so-called) are full of horseshit.

I agree with some of your points choggie but it's the air pollution I'm concerned about. I'm tired of stepping outside and expecting to take a breath of fresh air yet instead get a lungful of diesel fumes, galoline exhaust, tar fumes from some company re-doing their roof, etc. That's the biggest problem I have with petrolium products.. the air pollution.

Still, I'm not so sure biofuels are the best answer either. Other alternatives are being used, trialed and tested in other countries.. I don't see our major car manufacturers really stepping outside of the box that's for sure.

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I'm not sure ethanol is the answer. I don't see a way of processing it without requisite CO2 byproduct. There WILL be a successor to petroleum and the sooner we get to it, the better. It should be another 10 year challenge like the moon program.
"We choose to go to alternative fuels. We choose to do this in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

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those switchgrass and poplar look promising..biofuel, ftw

*long by a second. Hehe.

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Entertaining overview of all alternatives (alliteration, awesome!) -
http://www.videosift.com/video/Nova-PBS-series-Car-of-the-future-hosted-by-Click-and-Clack