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Q.General Motors researchers have found that engines running on ethanol last longer." That's not intuitive to me at all. Alcohol is a better lubricant than gasoline? Only when greasing the skids when you're trying to pick up that hot girl at the bar. My guess is that these test vehicles are getting more TLC than most cars on the road, and that variable would be the reason why alky engines are lasting longer, if they are. Everyone raves about Brazil's E-85 system, but just yesterday I saw an article deploring how the rain forest and other parts of the environment are being damaged or re-purposed to produce the farmland needed to grow all that sugar cane they use. Sugar cane is a better source of sugar for making E85 than corn is, and Brazil can't even manage to power their much smaller fleet of cars without rasing the dander of environmentalists. How in the world are we going to be able to produce enough corn to power our fleet of American cars? that there is a very small difference between the amount of energy produced by making ethanol, and the amoung of energy used to produce ethanol. The fields are plowed and prepared by diesel powered tractors, there's a tremendous amount of energy used when converting corn to alcohol, etc. Considering that so much fossil fuel is used to produce alky, it's dishonest to suggest that E-85 is a renewable resource. I think there's a whole lot of propaganda being foisted on us as fact, and too many people just swallow the stuff. The only positive thing about E-85 as it stands now is that the corn isn't grown by terrorists. What do you think?

A.Brazil's highly-touted program has problems, even with that government's hegemony over the people, the much more favorable fuel conversion of sugar cane vs. corn, and a more limited automotive culture, in overall volume if nothing else. I have nothing against biofuel (I even made some and ran it in a ?1 Ford, back in the heyday of the ORIGINAL Mother Earth News), but it seems that more and more cropland is being diverted to grow corn-for-fuel, when there are things like native switch grass that will grow quite nicely on "crapland", and switch grass has an ethanol conversion potential that's comparable to sugar cane, plus the grass grows with virtually zero tillage and NO annual re-seeding. Corn-to-ethanol is really a bust, and is just a government subsidy and vote buying mechanism. Corn prices ARE way up, at least as far as the large chicken farmers are concerned; several have filed for bankruptcy and others are examining "re-structuring", i.e., layoffs & wage/benefit cuts. Prices have mostly gone down since then. And notice they said "Corn prices have soared to the highest in a decade." Since everything else has "soared" over the last decade, is it out of reason to expect corn prices to be higher now than a decade ago? For most of the last 25 years corn prices, adjusted for inflation, are lower than during the Great Depression. Ride around farm country sometime, you'll see plenty of new equipment, but you'll also see lots of old broken down stuff. Small farmers don't stand a chance with current prices. My Grandfather made a living farming 125 acres, my Father made a living farming 200 acres. I barely break even farming 300 acres. The only people I know who can support a family from farming are farming thousands of acres, and they owe so much money, I don't know how they can sleep at night.

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