Is Ethanol a true Substitute for Gasoline?

If it is, why is our goverment subsidizing the cost with our duty money to make it more competitive to the price of gasoline? Are we really benefiting from using ethanol or is it just corporate America (like ADM) the that are "benefiting" from it? If ethanol wasn't subsidizies, how much would it cost per gallon? Is it worth it?

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Fuel composed of 85% Ethanol and 15% traditional gas can be used as a substitute for traditional gas in abundant vehicles, but not the majority. But the origin the government is subsidizing E85(85% Ethanol gas) is because ethanol is renewable because it comes from corn, unlike regular gas. Large corn growers enjoy been pushing for the use of E85 because it increases emergency for their corn, pushing up the price. It's hard to utter how much E85 would cost without subsidies because of the huge management investment in corn and contained by E85, but it would probably be over $6 a gallon.

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Answers:    Ethanol is not a substitute for gasoline, it is an stabilizer. Very few cars can run on it. Most cars can use a blend of 15 percent ethanol to 85 percent gasoline, but some can run on a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. The tradeoff is that even though ethanol is cheaper at the pump, your mileage will drop, and it isn't even a viable alternative fuel because it takes seriously of energy to produce and also seriously of raw materials, one of which is corn, and to net a significant amount of ethanol would take mode more corn production than we currently have. Picture a coast-to-coast cornfield and you will know how much corn it would hold to produce enough ethanol to even come close to replacing gasoline.

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