Ethanol - 15-20%?

[Yaris Hilton]

It's not Obama's fault. George W. Bush promoted it heavily. And it's not just the oil companies lobbying, it's the agricultural interests and the relatively new but powerful corn ethanol interests that have a lot of pull in Congress. The problem is, Congress mandated they've got to make and sell more ethanol than they can dispose of at current gasoline consumption rates when they're limited to a 10% blend. Personally, I've got no problem with the use of ethanol itself, but I think it's stupid to grow food and use it to run cars. The process is inefficient, though they've tuned it now to the point that there's some positive energy output over the petroleum power invested in farming, transporting the grain, producing and dehydrating the ethanol, and distributing it. I hope better biofuel processes will become economically viable soon.