Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:52 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
> > Why not just go bioethanol in a larger percentage year round? Portland is,
> > and it might go statewide by the end of the session. Gasoline sales are
> > banned here for the better.
>
> Probably because to produce 1 gallon of bio you need to use 1 gallon of
> gasoline. It's completely 0-sum right now.
Actually there is about a 7% loss right now. So 1 gallon of Ethanol
equates to a loss of energy rather than a gain.
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