Ethanol vs. Methanol Re: <VV> Racing with Gasoline and Ethanol

[FrankCB at aol.com]

For racing, one advantage of switching from  methanol to ethanol is better 
miles per gallon so fewer pit stops.   (Because a gallon of ethanol has more 
energy in it than a gallon of  methanol.)
    I also am a "pro-ethanol" person.  However, it  will probably take some 
new biological method to utilize waste corn stalks and  cobs (as well as other 
waste plant products) to produce ethanol more  economically than the present 
production from edible corn as well as sugar cane  (Brazilian ethanol comes 
from sugar cane).  Of course if we  eliminated our tariff on imported sugar, that 
might also become an  economical feedstock.
    I'd rather send my money to Jose Aguilera than  Mohammed bin Laden, since 
Jose isn't likely to try to assassinate  me!!!
    Frank Burkhard
      
 
In a message dated 6/4/2006 5:32:49 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
deltainc at grm.net writes:

...And I  think the Indy 500 just might be the best ( advertising ) bang for
the  bucks....  hey, that was really a show, right ... ironic that Ms.  Danica
Patrick probably wouldn[t have needed that last pit stop if she had  been
running methanol, not ethanol....
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Funny to observe  the pro-ethanol people  ( I am one of them ) ... skip over
the nearly  secret government subsidy when discussing the glories of  using
ethanol.  The hope is to eventually conjure it up cheaper than  crude
drippings.

regards, ken campbell,  deltawerkes