[T3] Corn Fuel and Type III engines

[Dan Badeer]

You're right, Jim.

I live in corn country and we have ethanol plants in many parts of our
State.  We've done a lot of analysis (I'm a financial advisor), and I
can tell you that it's NOT efficient.  Without gov't subsidy, it would
never make it.

Just my .02.

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:
> On 2 Oct 2012 at 16:12, J. Jonik wrote:
>
>> What do we know about this?...regarding our pre-corn-using gas
>> engines?  It's about the EPA attempt to force drivers to pump at least
>> 4 gallons of one kind of ethanol gas at certain pumps.
>
>> VW engines at the time were designed for both leaded and
> unleaded...but what's the story about alcohol?
>
> Regarding gasahol, there are extremeists at both ends of the
> spectrum. Personally, I've never had a problem, or seen a problem,
> with it.
>
> OTOH, scientifically, it's not at all clear that growing corn to turn
> into ethanol is energy effective at all. It may actually take more
> than a gallon of petroleum to produce the energy equivalent in
> ethanol. What is clear is that companies like Archer Daniels Midland
> (ADM) stand to make a lot of money on this, so they lobby for the
> price supports and ethanol requirements.
>
>
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