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   Frank to Dean Hoffman   
   Re: Fuel comparison charts   
   30 Jun 13 18:30:23   
   
   XPost: alt.home.repair, rec.autos.tech   
   From: frankdotlogullo@comcast.net   
      
   On 6/30/2013 4:09 PM, Dean Hoffman > wrote:   
   > On 6/30/13 3:01 PM, Edward A. Falk wrote:   
   >> In article ,   
   >> Frank   wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Biodiesel, though, makes more sense than using ethanol.   
   >>   
   >> Pretty much. Ethanol is a huge loser. It takes as much energy   
   >> to process it as it contains. The only time it makes sense is   
   >> if your processing plant is right next to the fields where the   
   >> plants are grown, and the processing plant runs on solar, wind,   
   >> or nuclear power. In which case, ethanol isn't really an energy   
   >> *source*, but an energy *storage system*.   
   >>   
   >     Ethanol might've been an energy sink at one time but that's   
   > apparently no longer true:   http://tinyurl.com/n2s2y6z   
      
   I'd put about as much faith in this study as any other Obama sycophantic   
   government agency study.   
      
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