The Lie Behind Ethanol Fuel

Math proves ethanol is a scam... In MN we've only had E10 or E85 for years. Gas mileage dropped when the switch was made. Now our RINO (Republican In Name Only) Governor wants to mandate E20. Tim Pawlenty is advocating E20 for his farmer friends and is trying to get the Federal Government to allow states to use E20 blended fuels. This can and will affect all states if this guy gets his way.

I did a math study on this back in 2001 using my real world data from a road trip my wife and I did in our car. Back in 2001 we drove from MN to South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa and back home. This was a week+ long trip. I had the chance to use many different blends of gasoline and pure gasoline along the way. I no longer have the exact data, but when I was done with the math I found that burning E10 caused my gas mileage to drop enough that I actually burned more gasoline than if I had been using pure gasoline. The math was basically this.

Since E10 is 10% ETOH + 90% gas. I calculated my mileage while using E10 and then calculated how much actual gasoline I burned (ethanol blend minus the 10% ETOH). I also calculated my mileage while burning pure gasoline. When you calculate how much actual gasoline you burned per mile you realize that you burn less gasoline per mile when you burn pure gasoline than when you burn E10.

Many will ask how can that be? Well E10 is actually contaminated gasoline and does not burn as hot (lower BTU's per gallon) and therefore burns less efficiently. A less efficient burn means more pollutants and more raw gasoline goes unburned and thus you have less power. Less power means your engine has to work harder to do the same amount of work and thus your gas mileage is lower. The conclusion is that E10 has INCREASED our gasoline usage which means we have INCREASED our need for crude oil which means we have INCREASED our dependency on foreign crude oil. (Remember that one of the main arguments for ethanol is to reduce our dependency on foreign oil.)

The same is not true for E85 since so little gasoline is in the blend that even though your miles per gallon are so greatly reduced you still burn more gasoline with pure gasoline than you do with E85.

This however does not make E85 the better fuel to use. We cannot grow enough corn in this country, even if we stop all corn exports and stop all corn for food production, to make enough E85 fuel to run our country. In the mean time we drive up the cost of our food because so much of our food requires corn. Corn syrup, corn starch, corn alcohol, and many more ingredients are made from corn that are used to make the base of our food that we eat. Not to mention the wonderful corn on the cob in the summer time. That will be gone or so expensive that only the Wealthy Liberals can afford to have such a luxury.

Ethanol will lead to higher food prices and food rationing. It is one more straw on the back of our economy. The economy that is under attack by the Liberals in our country. This is a internal war against America and people like you and me that make up the True America.

Fight back and vote out the Liberals that believe in the policies of burning food for fuel; the Liberals that want to destroy our economy; the Liberals that want to destroy the America we know and love.

Remember that this started out as a political movement by pseudo-environmentalists. Then various Government agencies started making regulations that affected businesses. Now businesses are riding this wave of pseudo-environmentalism to keep making a profit at a time when their profits would be suffering if they didn't make changes.

I don't blame business for changing tactics to keep making a profit. However, I do wish businesses had to balls to stand up to the pseudo-environmentalists, the media and Liberal politicians and collectively say "Bite-me".

But then again the American public should be doing the same thing.

One thing to remember is that ALL the car builders are building cars that can run on 100% ethanol in mass production for sale in Brazil. Brazil turns sugar cane in to ethanol.

So we can not blame car makers for not making the cars. They do make them. So why are we not using them. The real reason has been pointed out above. It takes more energy to make ethanol out of corn than the ethanol can produce. The millage sucks and there is a net loss of power. Ethanol laws are nothing more than a subsidy for corn farmers. Add on top of that the rising cost of corn do to diminished corn for food supply. This will cause all products that use corn, corn sugar, corn starch and other corn by products to increase in price. Over time the ethanol will cost us more at the pumps, cost us more in subsidies, and cost us more in corn products. The overall effect will be to hurt our economy. This is what the Liberals want. Their belief is we are too wealthy and we must be brought down to the level of the remaining 2nd and 3rd world countries. Do we really want to go back to the 'Good 'ol Days' of no cars, no electricity and no clean water?

Biofuels increase pollution:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297681,00.html

Missouri Corn Growers are part of the scam:
http://www.mocorn.org/news/2005/News%20Release%20Blunt%20Makes%20State%20Ethanol%20Standard%206-6-05.html