ethonol #'s

[Txwalt]

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/08 ... _prod.html

This article is real old but the figures in the article is what I find interesting. Anyone have anything more current? How much ethonal vs. gas are we consuming now? Is it helping gas prices at all?

Walt

 

[TexasBred]

Well the enthanol is a drop in the bucket as the article also sasy "The US consumed 283 million barrels of gasoline in June 2006—0.6% more than in June 2005—or 9.4 million barrels per day." Looks like ethanol production is about 3.25% of total gas used. I've heard mpg drops about 15% when you use ethanol so where's the savings? Has fewer pollutants per gallon but takes more gallons to get to your destination. Looks like we're backing up.

 

[somn]

112,000 to 110,000 but heck ruining the groundwater with mtbe is well worth the almost 2% farther you drove your car right?

 

[Jim62]

:???:

 

[TexasBred]

Groundwater?? I thought we were trying to cut emissions and stop this terrible global warming like you folks in Minnesota are experiencing.