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Originally Posted by Shining Arcanine
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science...ol-study_N.htm
Perhaps we should go back to MTBE. It has no known, negative environmental effects, besides ruining the taste of drinking water, and it should lower the incidence of ozone induced respiratory failure, which not only affects us, but local wild life as well, as they breathe the same air we breathe.
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Do you represent BP and/or work at Kirkland Ellis in Chicago? Or am I confusing you with LeahBeatle?
Ethanol has some problems; it's definitely not perfect -- but no combustible fuel is going to be perfect. It's a fact of combustion-- biodiesel or ethanol are always going to have drawbacks under scrutiny. Electricity is the most efficient fuel source, but suffers from storage and range problems. In the meantime, biodiesel or E85 hybrids are certainly a way of bridging the gap between storage/range and cost/weight.
Moreover, I strongly believe (read: know for a fact) it's wrong to think that ADM is the sole pro-lobbying force behind ethanol, when compared with the fact that almost anything bad that you hear about ethanol has ExxonMobilBPShellChevronTexacoConocoPhillipsValero 's seal of approval (read: oil dollars are being spent dissin' ethanol). Sure, ADM has a lot of power and loves the move toward ethanol... but for many, many years they've been outdone by the oil industry. To say the oil industry HATES ethanol is an
understatement. It's like the debate on global warming: if the Oil Industry can succeed in creating enough questions or ambivalence in the public sphere with respect to ethanol, they'll have gotten their money's worth.