Does ethanol cause more harm than it’s worth?
Yes, probably. Any gearhead can tell you that. But it’s not just the long term destruction of engines that’s the issue. Ethanol, once touted as a “renewable,” environmentally friendly energy source is not in fact environmentally friendly.
But the farmers in Iowa love their government subsidized corn ethanol programs and Iowa has the first presidential caucuses. So King Corn continues his reign and likely will continue to.
(From The Library of Economics and Liberty)
Ethanol loves water and soaks it up from its environment, so it can’t be shipped in long-distance pipelines with gasoline, because the water will corrode the piping and pumping machinery….
Consequently, it has to be transported in trucks at a higher cost and mixed with the gasoline near the end-use consumer market.
Reprinted from: https://www.ac2news.com/2019/04/does-ethanol-cause-more-harm-than-its-worth/
