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QINETIQ / Department of Transport Research into Bio-Ethanol
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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Gaynor" data-source="post: 22257" data-attributes="member: 4034"><p>The energy cost of ethanol is £2.64 a gallon. The energy cost of petrol is £0.64/gallon. If that isn't clear (and the government has no interest in enlightening the proles), it means that to get a gallon of petrol into a can costs £0.64, and the cost of getting a gallon of ethanol into a can, once the cost of tractor fuel and fertilisers is added in, is £2.64. </p><p>Simply: lead free petrol has NO health benefits, it was, and is, a scam. "Bio-fuel" uses more energy, and costs more, than real petrol does. And that's before we considers John's point that growing crops to turn, inefficiently, food into fuel, starves people who actually need the food.</p><p>Running vehicles on vodka? What kind of sense does THAT make?</p><p>Incidentally, the EU directive suggests that ethanol be used up to a maximum of 10%. The decision to use the whole 10% is made locally. That would be Whitehall, then...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Gaynor, post: 22257, member: 4034"] The energy cost of ethanol is £2.64 a gallon. The energy cost of petrol is £0.64/gallon. If that isn't clear (and the government has no interest in enlightening the proles), it means that to get a gallon of petrol into a can costs £0.64, and the cost of getting a gallon of ethanol into a can, once the cost of tractor fuel and fertilisers is added in, is £2.64. Simply: lead free petrol has NO health benefits, it was, and is, a scam. "Bio-fuel" uses more energy, and costs more, than real petrol does. And that's before we considers John's point that growing crops to turn, inefficiently, food into fuel, starves people who actually need the food. Running vehicles on vodka? What kind of sense does THAT make? Incidentally, the EU directive suggests that ethanol be used up to a maximum of 10%. The decision to use the whole 10% is made locally. That would be Whitehall, then... [/QUOTE]
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