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JohnWxy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-28-10 04:31 PM
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2. We need to increase the number of ethanol pumps. there are not
nearly enough of them. But that could change fairly quickly, though.

I would love to see us cut gasoline consumption just 20% - just for starters. (ethanol replaced about 7.8% of gasoline in 2009).
We actually can get along without off-shore drilling if we would facilitate the adoption of the Eth. Direct Injection engine.

The thing about the Ethanol Direct Injection engine is that it only uses 5% ethanol but reduces fuel consumption 24% (actually when you figure in the 5% ethanol that replaces gas, it's more like 29% reduction in gasoline consumption). So you get much more impact from a gallon of ethanol compared to substitution of gas burned in a regular ICE (internal combustion engine).






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