Scott Dorsey wrote:
>
> A few years ago, a lot of ethanol out there was produced from natural
gas.
> I don't know if this is still true, but it was illegal to sell the stuff
> for drinking purposes in the US although it was legal in Mexico.
Since methane is converted to methanol, this would require the
methanol then to be converted to ethanol. That might be possible, but
since methanol is a deadly poison and blinding agent you can see why
they would ban such a thing from consumption.
