Gas sold at gas stations is often 10% ethanol. It's touted as being "green" and as mixing a non-renewable source of energy with a renewable source of energy (i.e. ethanol is made from corn).
However, the whole truth shows how the whole green thing is a hoax.
Claim: "Ethanol gas is cheaper to the consumer":
Truth: While ethanol cut gas is cheaper than regular gas, the consumer also gets significantly worse gas mileage, which effectively cancels out the "savings". It's no different than buying less regular gas to drive the same lesser miles that one would be able to drive using ethanol cut gas.
Claim: "Ethanol, tank for tank, burns cleaner and creates less pollution".
Truth: That's true "tank for tank" i.e. per volume of fuel, but as touched on above, vehicles run less miles on a tank of ethanol cut gas. If one drove a car, using regular gas, the same number of miles that one could drive on a tank of ethanol cut gas, it would produce the same "less pollution".
Also, unless your car manufacture recommends you burn ethanol gas, your car will burn the gas less efficiently simply because it's not designed to burn alcohol. (You could also ruin your valves). It puts a greater "wear and tear" on your vehicle's engine.
The "green" perspective is based on fallacies, and yet there are potential congressional mandates in the works that would force gas companies to sell this "green" fuel to consumers based on these "green" fallacies. All it's really doing is creating a false government sponsored market for feed corn, that, yes, once again, you the tax payer would be supporting.
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