This "ethanol future" should already be our present. There really is no reason why this should not have gone foward years ago. There's so many stupid things preventing us from doing it though and it needs to stop. I'm also rather sure that most of the cars around today are already able to use ethanol mix fuels.
If people are worried that our farmers aren't gonna be able to make enough of the product needed for ethanol.. well.. there's an entire world out there. Most of the world has been trying to get us to buy its farmed products for decades but the US taxes the hell out of it to give a boost to our own farmers. Thats a whole world of cheap corn and other products that is being forcibly kept out of our country that we could be using to help it.
If the US was really serious about Ethanol.. why not drop the tariff on it? The ethanol tariff is FIFTY-FOUR CENTS A GALLON (yes thats right.. 54 cents a gallon.) Keeping that just proves that people would rather continue to pad the pockets of the current oil giants and they don't give a flying fuck about our oil addiction other than seeing that it continues.
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