My stance on the whole alternative fuel issue.
Ethanol is mostly a pipe dream as most of you have said. Its amazing what subsidies can do to make something look good.
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Originally Posted by shakran
Biodiesel will clog fuel filters in vehicles that don't use it regularly. This was just demonstrated in Minnesota, which suspended its biodiesel mandate after truckers complained that they were destroying their fuel filters.
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Minnesota pushed the biodiesel mandation way too fast. Biodiesel will naturally clean the crud out of the lines and plug up a fuel filter, but the biggest problem is Minnesota mandated using only 100% biodiesel and not a blend of biodiesel and pump diesel. Biodiesel is some nasty stuff in the winter time, it gels way to easy. But I guess they learned the hard way about doing research. Once they figure out that straight biodiesel won't work in the winter and we figure what foodstocks have the greatest output/what can be grown the cheapest and easily it will work. But we aren't close enough to have a "cure all" for our fuel problems. We need more research than subsidies.
Thank you Shakran for putting the truth on the table, I just HATE it when people think ethanol is a perfect happy solution to all our fuel problems, when it actually is not.