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Default RE: Behind Detroit's sudden embrace of ethanol

You'll find lots of E85 pumps in this area. There are two in the town I went to college in and one in my hometown in Southern IL, but you don't see many people pumping it into their tanks (except for the uneducated people who think they can run it in a 01 Lincoln Continental, which isn't a FFV). I'm for new diesels, they are fast for their displacement, reliable, and get amazing fuel economy without sacrificing anything unlike the electrifying death traps (aka hybrids).

Ethanol is not the answer (or at least the way they are doing it isn't). They really ought to go with Butanol instead, better mileage, can run in any gas powered model without any special mods, can be shipped through a pipeline, more octane, etc.
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