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Originally Posted by sperry
Ethanol/Biodiesel is modern-day snake-oil.
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IMO, we need nuclear, wind, solar and clean-coal power, and plug-in hybrid or straight electric cars. Use ethanol just as an octane booster for normal fuel... don't expect it to save us from external energy dependency.
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Amen, although I'm not sold on "Clean" coal yet. For one it's still a non-renewable fossil fuel, and for another pumping CO2 into the ground is not a very good idea either. Pumping *anything* into the ground has been shown by geologists to be a generally bad idea, even water.
That said, if we're going to use energy to further create chemical energy reserves we can use for powering vehicles (i.e. hydrogen), that energy needs to start as electricity generated by nuclear, wind and solar plants. That's the only long-term answer to the energy crisis.