Saturday, August 27, 2005

Even For USA Today This Is Quite Dumb...

Ethanol a real option to high gas prices

Okay, stop spinning in your grave Albert, they just don't know any better. Let's break this down then, shall we; takes a gallon and a half of fossil fuel to make one gallon of ethanol; ethanol has a lower BTU value than gasoline, so adding it to gasoline lowers fuel economy. Use more energy to make the stuff than you get from it, and the existing supplies dwindle away even faster and become more expensive, then reduce the miles driven when using it. Brilliant. Can someone direct the attention of these dolts to the Second Law Of Thermodynamics or doesn't wickepedia have it posted yet?

I know that pork barrel Iowans push this junk to beat the band, but who really writes these stories for the clueless media? What's that you say? You don't know the guy, but he wore a turban and left puddles of sand wherever he stood? Gotcha.

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