Since the Carter administration the government has been diverting your dollars to put ethanol into your gas tank.
True and it was B.S. from the start too.
Initially it was intended to be a tool to help the United States become energy independent,...
It is a false premise because it is a LOWER energy source than the gasoline it was intended to supplement.But since it was a GOVERNMENT mandate it was clear that the free market was NOT interested in it.Meanwhile that idiot Carter shuts down Nuclear Energy construction at the same period of time.
...it then morphed into a tool to help increase gas mileage and later it became a critical element in fighting global warming.
Ethanol DECREASES fuel mileage because it has a much lower octane of 69 to work with and not suitable for older vehicles either as it contributes to internal engine damage due its corrosive chemistry.It was never a credible element for global warming either because CO2 itself does not drive warming at all.The very nature of energy transfer from the atmosphere to space dwarfs the alleged "heat trapping" capability of CO2 by several times over
ON A YEARLY BASIS!Now it doesn’t even do any of those dubious, but theoretically positive, things. It’s simply become another failed government wealth transfer program.
Ethanol burning promotes ozone pollution in the cities.
