Can someone please remind me of the advantages of ethanol in fuel?
It strikes me that setting up competitive tension between the
world's fuel supply and the world's food supply seems like a bad
idea, but maybe the advantages outweigh the costs...?
- mark
On 12/05/2008, at 3:55 PM, Don Ingram wrote:
A while back I got to listen to a spiel from a company looking at
adding hydrous ethanol to diesel. Worked a treat and tests confirmed
it on large mining equipment and trains. Never heard of since ;-)
The argument presented was that the worst place to add ethanol was
in gasoline as it increased the surplus of gasoline on the market.
Apparently the chief determinant on crude oil refining is the
diesel market requirement, the amount of gasoline produced is driven
by the amount of diesel required and as a result the gasoline is
always in surplus. Hence you see gasoline discounted but never see
diesel discounted. Sounded convincing at the time...
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