I am not a producer or work for a gas company. I know people who live downwind of the Gopher Ethanol plant off of west 7th in St. Paul. They lived there WAY before the government subsidized ethanol production started. What should they do? Sell their home and pay taxes elsewhere (taxes that end up subsidizing the ethanol that stinks out the new homeowner).
I get some facts from:
http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicl...l-ethanol.html
The government welfare doesn't even end up in producers pockets. It ends up in ADM's pocket. Producers still get the same crappy price for their corn.
Look. I want ethanol to work. In modern engines, if you use it right away, it burns cleaner. That is good for all of us. But you still can't overcome the FACT that it is close to 50% LESS efficient that pure gas. If ethanol plants are so great how come we have to subsidize them?
A guy I know looked into this when he was in college. If you burn pure ethanol in an engine you get about 1/2 the mileage as the same engine burning pure gas.
Sigh.