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61 comments on Gasoline Blending 101: The Ethanol Blending Requirement

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souperman2 on July 28, 2008 - 5:19pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

The Brazil ethanol story IMO is all about the E100 which is not pure refined (90 or 95% I think) and requires a fraction of the energy to refine thus making it "economical".

Of coarse the auto fleet had to be retooled for this.$$$$$

Ethanol proponents love to cite Brazil but fail to compare apples to apples.

What about 90% refined corn ethanol and re-tool our auto fleet?

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kdolliso on July 28, 2008 - 5:42pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

We do need to do a little research on hydrous ethanol, though.

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Jack on July 29, 2008 - 8:56am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

You are making that up entirely. The vast majority of etanol consumed as fuel in Brazil is distilled just like in the US and blended with gasoline.

No E100 cars are manufactered in Brazil any more. It took me five seconds to look that up. Would have helped you to have tried to find facts to support your argument as you would have found out you were wrong and saved the post.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_in_Brazil

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