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Senators moved ahead Wednesday on legislation to replace one-quarter of the nation's gasoline with ethanol and set a goal of cutting gasoline consumption nearly in half by 2030. Coal-state lawmakers tried to promote liquefied coal as a motor fuel substitute, but their effort stalled amid a debate over global warming. The energy bill, passed

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Harbeas
May 4, 2007, 8:41 p.m.
We are hearing so much about ethanol. What will be the cost of a gallon of it and how many miles to the gallon will we be getting? Maybe this isn't the magic pill we are looking for.
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PsychoHosebeast
May 4, 2007, 10:11 p.m.
Cutting use in half by 2030? Shouldn't they actually thinking that being weaned from the tit might be a better goal...? I mean, is there even going to be enough to supply us half our need by then? How long will this crap go on? WTF, this is the problem with these morons, just stopgap after stopgap. Let's consider, for openers, that the world's population will probably be doubled, and India and China use oil like... well... there's no tomorrow.
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mjesales
May 5, 2007, 12:26 a.m.
well until we start making ethanol out of something that uses less oil than gasoline - we aren't saving anything... and don't forget most cars get 2/3 the gas mileage they get on gas when using ethanol.
They can make ethanol out of sugar efficiently - but since we have a sugar import tax - we don't have enough sugar to make ethanol cheaply.