On Nov 2, 9:15*pm, Richard J Kinch wrote:
Stormin Mormon writes:
I don't see a lot of
advantage to planting, harvesting and distilling to make a fuel that
provides less mileage.

Ethanol in a case of vodka: 12 bottles * 750 ml/bottle * 80 proof (40
percent) = 3.6 liters = 0.95 gallon.

Ethanol in a 30-gallon pickup truck tank filled with 10 percent ethanol
fuel: 30 * 0.1 = 3 gallons.

So the US federal goverment now literally requires that every fillup also
include a mandatory minimum purchase of the equivalent of 3 cases of
uncut vodka.

In 1933 it was a federal crime to produce, buy, sell, or even transport
ethanol. *

In 2010 it is a federal crime to transport yourself without ethanol.

Under federal law the identical industrial product is to be priced at
$1/gallon if it is destined to go into an engine, versus $50/gallon into
a belly.

It's*taxed*differently*too.
Karl