[TR] problem gas?

[Dave1massey at cs.com]

Well, Phil, do they run these plants off of gasoline?  Ethanol is a 
gasoline substitute not a coal or natural gas substitute.

Actually, ethanol is mostly an oxygenating agent for smog reduction and 
doesn't show up in ground water like MTBE.

Dave

In a message dated 6/12/2013 3:41:42 PM Central Daylight Time, 
pethier at comcast.net writes: 
> >My reference was in Energy sustainability. The energy put into making
> >the
> >ethanol is either a little more or a little less than the energy you
> >get out
> >of it depending on what study you look at.
> 
> Study, Schmudy.  If you can't run the plant on ethanol, it's a scam.