Future fuel...Ethanol??
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Future fuel...Ethanol?? This may be a dumb question to some of you, but I have been inquiring about this issue for quite some time now. If and when our precious gasoline gets replaced with ethanol, will there be some way we could burn this in our LS1's? Like an upgrade of some sort? I'm sure gasoline may be available next to ethanol for a while, but i'm sure ethanol will be much cheaper. . .
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Ethanol will never be anything more than a novelty. Gasoline will be around for a long time, so don't concern yourself. There just isnt enough farmland to support the ammount of ethanol it would take to replace gas.
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True, but with gasoline prices going up, and the supply and demand for oil being an issue, we just may see gasoline being replaced second to another type of fuel by the year 2017. Saudia Arabia (a major oil supplier) will be emptied of all it's oil by around the year 2011 apparently, and I see nothing but problems for gasoline from then on. Maybe i'm just a worry wart, but I have been reading up a lot on this issue, and it seems to be very plausible.
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Originally Posted by SLawson86
not to mention, fuel costs arent any cheaper on ethanol...
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True they're building a lot more ethanol plants, there's several trying to get permits around here. Ethanol is a temporary solution, but it wont go big time. Yes it will reduce our dependancy quite a bit but not near enough. Either way- farmers win! It's about time they started makin some money. I like how when corn hit $4/bushel lots of my friends dads got new trucks. The more ethanol the U.S wants to produce the more and more the fam. farm becomes a gold mine.
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Originally Posted by CockerKid009
True they're building a lot more ethanol plants, there's several trying to get permits around here. Ethanol is a temporary solution, but it wont go big time. Yes it will reduce our dependancy quite a bit but not near enough. Either way- farmers win! It's about time they started makin some money. I like how when corn hit $4/bushel lots of my friends dads got new trucks. The more ethanol the U.S wants to produce the more and more the fam. farm becomes a gold mine.
(waterboy) 
Ethanol is "higher octane" than gasoline, which makes it well-suited to high-compression engines and diesels. It also goes under the term "bio-diesel" when used for heavier equipment. Baisically it is "moonshine" or distilled corn mash. Cheap to produce and I'm for anything within reason that will reduce our dependency on the Middle East...
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Originally Posted by SScott
What we gain in Ethanol we lose in crops that the extra corn planted for the ethanol takes. Think of everything being connected there is NO FREE ENERGY!!!
totally true, I work in a food and beverage department and the price of corn is sky rocketing and since they feed the cows corn to at ore nutrients to the milk then all dairy product are going up also
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Originally Posted by SScott
What we gain in Ethanol we lose in crops that the extra corn planted for the ethanol takes. Think of everything being connected there is NO FREE ENERGY!!!
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Originally Posted by Starz T/A 17
yea, and my parents explorer can run off of ethanol, and it says that it will reduce your MPG's by like 30% so its less efficent then gas
But there are some huge advantages if your a performance oriented person. When we ran on gas the truck was a gutless wonder, But on E85 it drives more like a V8. It drives completely different on E85, thing is you don't notice any performance differences till at least the second tank of fuel.
And it does burn cleaner.
