Mentioning ethanol is always going to "stir the pot". Facts tend to get ignored when passion takes over. First, even after corn is used to make ethanol, significant food value is left so the food or fuel argument is really overblown. Also, ethanol is an oxygenate, which can have a synergistic effect on combustion efficiency if your vehicles computer is capable of exploiting it. Corn based ethanol will never be able to meet our total energy needs, but it is a valuable addition that is available NOW, not 10 or 20 years into the future. Unbiased studies (and you really need to read the methodology for each) show a significant net energy gain from ethanol. And last, but maybe the most significant, what every ethanol naysayer ignores, is the social cost of crude oil. A large part of our Mideast policy is geared to supply cheap crude to fuel our economy. To be fair to ethanol, we must charge a significant portion of our military expenses, and many lives, to the cost of a gallon of gas. In fact, please study history-Standard Oil of California (SOCAL) loaned Saudi Arabia the money used to continue the practice of paying the various tribes for the loyalty to Ibn Saud after the collapse of the British Empire, until SOCAL could develop the Saudi oil fields and oil revenues began to flow freely into the kingdom.
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Today's Featured Article - George's Fordson Major - by Anthony West (UK). This is a bit of a technical info to add on to the article about George's Major in the "A Towny Goes Plowing" article. George bought his Major from a an implement sale about 18 years ago for £200.00. There is no known history regarding its origins or what service it had done, but the following work was undertaken by Harold alone to bring it up to show standard. From the engine number, it was found that the major was produced late 19
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