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by rbanffy·17y ago·view on hn ↗
"the infrastructure already set up to refuel and maintain petrol engines is vast and not ready to go away yet."

And that's precisely why ethanol engines are such a nice idea. I have been driving ethanol-running cars since my youth and can tell you they work just fine and have a pretty low carbon footprint, specially when compared to fossil-fuel based ones.

I sincerely doubt they got their math straight.

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In terms of carbon footprint, a lot depends on where the ethanol comes from. For instance, if you're getting it from corn grown in the US, then you are doing it wrong...

(The wikipedia article is kind of awful, but it touches on the main concerns: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_ethanol )

We are getting it from sugar cane in Brazil. While not the most efficient way, it's pretty good. Getting ethanol from corn is so stupid only a government could imagine it.

I think I have owned only one car that ran on gasoline, an import from Argentina.