Ethanol - What is the story?

**Jer** · 11-07-2005, 04:55 PM

Perhaps ethanol wouldn't make money for the "right people", while oil does.

**Jer** · 11-07-2005, 04:56 PM

Almost all the new cars sold in Brazil run with gas and/or ethanol.

**Jer** · 11-07-2005, 04:57 PM

I think here they use all the sugar cane to make cachaça... so the ethanol costs much more than in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other cities

**Jer** · 11-07-2005, 05:01 PM

I talk way too much even on a message board. Damn

**DamageX** · 11-07-2005, 05:02 PM

Originally posted by Jer

Perhaps ethanol wouldn't make money for the "right people", while oil does.

**evildick** · 11-07-2005, 05:33 PM

They use it as an additive here in Canada. Made from corn up here.

To use the stuff that is mostly ethanol (around 85%), the car has to be designed to run on it, as it won't work in regular engines. I'm assuming that would be a huge cost for the entire auto industry, from everyone to the gas stations to the auto makers themselves.

**Jer** · 11-07-2005, 06:17 PM

Originally posted by evildick

They use it as an additive here in Canada. Made from corn up here.

To use the stuff that is mostly ethanol (around 85%), the car has to be designed to run on it, as it won't work in regular engines. I'm assuming that would be a huge cost for the entire auto industry, from everyone to the gas stations to the auto makers themselves.

Brazil is far from being a rich country and we have thousands of cars running on ethanol here

**Jer** · 11-07-2005, 06:18 PM

Oh, in Brazil they also add ethanol to the gas. So when you buy gas, actually you're buying 75% gas and 25% ethanol... or something like that.

**Spunky** · 11-07-2005, 06:21 PM

It is an additive to help the car burn cleaner exhaust.Every little bit helps

**beemk** · 11-07-2005, 06:23 PM

some gas stations have like 10% of it here. i think its supposed to not be nearly as good as gas and ive heard its bad for your car.

**invertiga** · 11-07-2005, 06:33 PM

in .au theres a push on ethanol blended fuels. the two available are both higher octane than regular unleaded, less polution, and cost less. apparently it has no effect on modern cars and offeres the same / greater performance depending on what octane fuel you were previously using. It can't be too bad, indy cars etc use almost 30% ethanol blend (from memory) and they aint havin any performance problems.

**pornguy** · 11-07-2005, 06:37 PM

they wont do it, in the US because that would create a new group of mega millionaires.

Ethanol - What is the story?

Ethanol - What is the story?

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