In Gas-Powered World, Ethanol Stirs Complaints

Ethanol was---and is---designed as an additive for gasoline for motor fuel use.  To suggest that its use in lawnmowers and leaf blowers is threatening the future of ethanol as a motor fuel is disingenuous at best.

1.  The introduction of Ethanol as an additive was welcomes at first but we are now seeing the repercussions in other areas like food prices that are not welcome. 2.  The US might not feel the pinch here but this will cost the developing countries.

Today's condition of the production of ethanol looks as it is not cost effective. Ethanol itself has some problems in the process of combustion in the internal combustion engine (ICE). But this is today. When the ethanol producers start providing market with desireable volumes of the fuel, the situation will be improved. Needless to say the USA and the rest of the world urgently need new sources...

energy independence is a wonderful thing, but it is not without some ramifications. Is it better to have lower mileage and performance in MPG and higher food prices?

  The popularity of ethanol as a fuel is rapidly declining. Once seen as a panacea to this nation's dependence on foreign sources of fuel, ethanol now is being blamed for worldwide food inflation, diversion of crops from food to fuel and, now, operational problems in engines.   A number of service stations are now marketing "100 percent gas," or gasoline uncontaminated by ethanol. Even the...