On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:44:41 -0800 (PST), N8N
wrote:

On Nov 12, 1:10Â*pm, wrote:
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:47:42 -0800 (PST), N8N
wrote:

Now that is only true for the US; in South
America where you can grow sugar cane it definitely is worthwhile to
use ethanol instead of gasoline.

... as long as you don't mind the ecological destruction. Brazil is
draining coastal wetlands and burning the rain forest to grow sugar
cane.

well, yeah, there's that. But the point that I was making is that you
could theoretically run all your farm equipment on ethanol and still
have some left over to sell, not making any judgements about other
environmental effects that may be equally as undesirable as simply
wasting fuel to grow fuel.

nate
Many years ago a local potato farmer ran his tractors on hooch made
from surplus/substandard and damaged potatos. He had an excise permit
to produce the stuff but it had to have gasoline added immediately
(something like E95)
That made sense, but after a few years the still was shut down and he
went back to petro-power (deisel)