> It still takes more BTU's to produce the stuff than the finished product makes.
See now, that is a lie. It has been perpetuated for a long time by big oil tanker types, but is totally incorrect.
Current corn ethanol plants return about 20-33% more energy than is consumed, including the energy used to grow and haul the corn.
Your big oil tanker friends somehow forget to include the feed produced from ethanol production, and some of your friends even went so far as to count the energy cost of sunshine (which shines for free) in order to 'discover' the btu cost of ethanol - a very funny way to use 'facts' indeed. To be fair under that sort of energy accounting, we'd need to include the sunshine used to grow the dinasaurs and the heat/pressure used to create crude oil.
You're not helping yourself buy trying to follow such convoluted 'logic'.
We'll just ignore that ethanol can use lower-grade gasoline because of the octane boost....
Common view is that corn ethanol is saving 30 cents a gallon on today's gas prices while returning around 25% more energy. Of course like any projection that involved, there is room for error. In _either_ direction, might be more than 30 cents.....
I understand your mind is made up, but really can't let such large a lie go unchallenged, your comment does not hold up to fact.
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