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Originally Posted by shakran
1) Ethanol takes more energy to make than you get out of it. This means you are using coal, oil, gas, or nuclear power to produce an energy source that does not give you as much energy as you'd have gotten by just using the original energy source in the first place.
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Production of ethanol requires six units of energy to produce just one.. This will make the energy crisis even worse, unfortunately. This is why I reccomend
biodiesel as the best alternative fuel, not ethanol.