Re: Is ethanol a dead end?

On Feb 4, 5:22 pm, jackbadger56 <castl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> It seems that if a manufacturer can make a car run on E85, they've
> earned an official 'green' tag. AFAIK cars running on this still
> produce greenhouse gases (is that right?), there are stuff-all places
> selling the ****, a tank seems to take you half the distance, and if
> everyone switched over to it there'd be no sugar/corn/potatoes/alpaca
> goats or whatever they're currently deriving it from left to eat, and
> the only way to make up the shortfall of farming land would involve
> clearing on a massive scale!
> Another bloody red herring!!

Ethanol fuel in Australia is limited to a maximum of 10 percent
because the federal government has set up cartel-marketting agreements
between the key oil companies and Manildra Corp which is the biggest
producer of ethanol in Australia. The 10 percent limit is set so
Manildra can always keep product flowing so the pricing of 10 percent
ethanol fuel can be kept artificially lower than regular ULP.