Thank you, MPH168, for trying to introduce quantifiable facts on the usual torches and pitchforks forum. Even Al Gore admits our ethanol a boondoggle, environmental waste. Marv68 is right about instead using agwaste, switch grass, as Brazil does, a nation that's never been at war in two centuries, not that they're angels.
Henry Ford intended his Model T and Fordson tractor, by 1920 comprising half the vehicles and tractors on the world's roads and fields, to run on agwaste ethanol. But John D. Rockefeller controlled over 85% of all US bulk oil shipments, so with gas a dime a gallon, infrastructure in place, Ford went along. Had he bucked, likely GM, Maxwell, Reo, Chalmers, Auburn, Dodge, Packard, Pierce and the rest of the industry would've followed.
While we prefer straight gasoline, none of my prewar Packard, Pierce, Cadillac, Cord, Delahaye, Buick, Railton, Hudson, Lagonda, Auburn pals have had a problem with ethanol gas, these immaculate cars driven not trailered like beached whale carcasses, and tho' slightly off subject, once and for all: inline engines do not "vapor lock." Old Ford, Cad/LaSalle, Cord V-8s can because the carb's smack in the midst of a heat sink.
According to a 2013 poll of 2,000 UN scientists and another 11,000 scientists reported in the 11/5/19 Bloomberg News, their whelming consensus is that our biggest by far problem is overpopulation, their words: "bigger than climate."
This is the threat to our internal combustion cars.
UN and other vetted studies show animals raised for meat and dairy produce more greenhouse gas than all the world's cars, trucks, buses, trains, planes, ships combined.
If we're serious about preserving a nation, world where we can still take our i.c. alter egos out for a cruise, we should do everything in our power to promote education, contraceptives, adoption, and a vegan diet, the latter hardly slowing the world's leading Formula One driver, Lewis Hamilton, and 77-year-old rocker rodder Jeff Beck.
We now return to our barroom rants, already in progress.
