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Originally Posted by fourWheelDrift
A world of difference between Ethanol and Methanol though. Ethanol would have genuinely green credentials if only we weren't driving up world food prices by shutting down food production in order to produce it.
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That's only in theory, a concern not really proven and pressed only by rich countries interests.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_in_Brazil
It has been done with reasonable success since the 80s for the internal market and it's growing, most of the domestic fleet runs on ethanol by now, you find it in any gas station throughout the country, and with the addition with the flex cars since 2003, the figures goes high as 70%, that's for one of the biggest vehicle fleet in the world.