Comments on: Urge Alcohol Gas for Farm Relief http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/07/07/urge-alcohol-gas-for-farm-relief/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:00:37 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Josef http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/07/07/urge-alcohol-gas-for-farm-relief/comment-page-1/#comment-1058043 Josef Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:51:17 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=4729#comment-1058043 Poorer MPG doesn't mean it's worse. The fuels probably cheaper, seeing as it's taken from a surplus, and, on the subject of MPG, the Model T got upto 22 MPG, where as the 2003 Jeep Wrangler gets 17 MPG at its highest. It took 80 years of technological advances to get -5 MPG. Poorer MPG doesn’t mean it’s worse. The fuels probably cheaper, seeing as it’s taken from a surplus, and, on the subject of MPG, the Model T got upto 22 MPG, where as the 2003 Jeep Wrangler gets 17 MPG at its highest.

It took 80 years of technological advances to get -5 MPG.

]]> By: Rick Auricchio http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/07/07/urge-alcohol-gas-for-farm-relief/comment-page-1/#comment-1057834 Rick Auricchio Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:20:47 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=4729#comment-1057834 This may have made sense when there was a huge corn surplus, but I don't think we have a surplus now. Probably the surplus was consumed by other uses of corn (e.g. sweetener). The article conveniently neglects to mention that ethanol has 20% lower energy than gasoline, so you actually get poorer MPG. This may have made sense when there was a huge corn surplus, but I don’t think we have a surplus now. Probably the surplus was consumed by other uses of corn (e.g. sweetener).

The article conveniently neglects to mention that ethanol has 20% lower energy than gasoline, so you actually get poorer MPG.

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