Is Butanol The Answer To Curtailing Our Dependence On Foreign Oil?
BP petroleum seems to think so and they have kicked in to a $500 million program with the University of California, Berkeley, which will be devoted to improving butanol as a biofuel. By now just about everyone has figured out that ethanol is one great big waste of time and money. In fact, ethanol was such a stupid idea that in centuries to come, it will serve as the quintessential example of early 21st Century American greed and ignorance. Ethanol doesn’t do anything to lower greenhouse gas emissions nor does it help to end our dependence on foreign oil. The only thing ethanol has accomplished has been the billion-dollar endowment of big agribusiness and contribution to the starvation of millions through food shortages. While no car or truck can operate exclusively on ethanol without modifications being made to the engine, butanol can go right into the tank of every car and truck out there. Ethanol is more corrosive than both gasoline or butanol and can damage aluminum and polymer comp
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