David R. Birch wrote:

Your opinion of them notwithstanding, they were there and on the market
for some 75-80 years. That pretty much means there were
alternatives.

They were illegitimate alternatives. Their fate was doomed
from the start because it took enormous amount of propaganda
and deception to make them available. Eventually the truth
won out.

The truth is that the reformulated gas costs more and does not
effectively decrease pollution because it produces 10% less pollution
but I have to burn 14% more of it to drive the same distance. So it
effectively produces 4% more pollution.

I don't disagree with that. The problem lies with
bad regulation that is intended to sabotage the benefits
of ethanol blends. The problem is not ethanol. The EPA
is not working for you. The EPA is working for the oil
companies and automakers who have been fighting against ethanol
for 90 years. But in the end the truth will prevail.

In the future, market forces will win out and motor
fuel will all be around 25% ethanol. And that fuel will
deliver better mileage than straight gasoline. The EPA
and oil companies are hoping for some miracle to arrive to
change that destiny. But there is no miracle.



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