The truth about ethanol 10 Articles

by Larkin Lennon

Everyday, millions of cars and billions of dollars worth of gasoline are manufactured without anyone so much as blinking in their direction. Many blame gasoline for environmental and health problems and urge the people of ...read more

by M B Parker

America's response to increasing oil prices and global warming has been to look for alternative fuel sources. One fuel in particular is getting the lion's share of publicity and investment. That fuel is ethanol, typically ...read more

by Alex Sax

Many environmental and right wing political groups are hailing ethanol as a better alternative to gasoline, but is ethanol really an environmentally sound alternative? Firstly, ethanol is dirtier than gasoline. While i...read more

by Debra Knight

Fossil Fuel Versus Biofuel: Is Corn the Best Alternative? The current debate in the United States over replacing nonrewable fossil fuel (gasoline) with renewable biofuel made from corn (ethanol) involves several is...read more

by Matthew Lebreux

About Ethanol here in the US, and about here in Florida, I own a 1993 Nissan Altima, I noticed the started to stall in January 2008, and in (May 2008) the car came to a complete stop did not want to run anymore, so I t...read more

by Daniel J. Gansle

On December 19, 2007, President G.W. Bush signed into law the Energy Independence and Security Act. Among numerous other initiatives related to U.S. energy policy, the bill requires a dramatic increase in the production of...read more

by Jurgen Ankenbrand

Corn (Mais) is for food, not ethanol Sugar cane yields seven times the amount of ethanol, where is then economy By now the entire world has to know that the world oil supply will eventually come to an end yet we see li...read more

by Lime Green Sphere

Let's get the facts out there: ethanol isn't intended to improve fuel efficiency (that's the number of miles per gallon) and it doesn't. In fact, it lowers fuel efficiency by about 1-2%. What ethanol was meant to do is ...read more

by Joseph Parish

Fill up my car with Switchgrass Please I rounded the north corner of the field when I spotted farmer Jacob on his new, green John Deere. I slowed my van up to almost a walking pace and eased it to the side of the road. ...read more

by James Brask

Hello, I have been in the automotive business for about thirty years. And before that, my father retired as an auto mechanic. I started learning about cars, working on my own car, at about 1967. I work at a Chevrolet ...read more