
Originally Posted by
DallasBill
I'm not saying MTBE was the answer, but ethanol isn't either the way our politicians have mandated it!
It costs more energy to produce than a gallon of gas. We don't have the facilities or capacity to produce ethanol for the MTBE that's being phased out. It can't be carried in pipelines and injected into the production process at the refinery like MTBE can. It has to be trucked to the refineries and mixed in from the tankers.
Now, do you want to know how many refineries, already running at capacity because we have not built a new one in 25+ years, are equipped to handle that new process, all the while changing over from winter to summer mix refining?!?!
You think gas is expensive now... just wait. Talk about a sellout to the Midwest corn lobby!
It just hit the Krogers here.