| Currently the United States of America we produced | | | | gasoline and you have less power when it is cold out. |
| 17 million cars each and every year. Most of these | | | | In places like Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Florida |
| cars run on gasoline and very few actually run on | | | | it is hardly ever called and therefore ethanol would |
| ethanol. Although most cars can run on at least 15% | | | | work much better. However, Texas is primarily an oil |
| ethanol blends. If we truly wish to break their | | | | industry state and they have refineries nearby which |
| addiction to foreign oil we will need to expand the | | | | keep the price of gasoline low. Florida has many ports |
| number of cars which can run on either pure ethanol | | | | and can get loyal in for refining rather cheap. These |
| or E85 Ethanol, which is 85% ethanol and 15% | | | | issues pose a problem for the switching to ethanol. |
| gasoline. | | | | If the United States is to break the addiction to |
| Ethanol runs better at higher temperatures and that | | | | foreign oil we need to have proper planning of |
| means it should be sold in places like Arizona and | | | | infrastructure to get ethanol to market and where it |
| New Mexico. Places like Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, | | | | will do the most good. That makes the most sense |
| Alabama, Florida and Georgia. Yet most of the | | | | and yet there are distribution issues. Such as ethanol |
| Midwest where the ethanol is refined and grown | | | | is more corrosive and harder to move from place to |
| from corn has cooler temperatures and fair for the | | | | place. It does not work very well and pipelines. There |
| ethanol is less effective. By less effective I mean | | | | is more to consider when growing our own fuel in |
| you get less power as a fuel. In fact you get less | | | | America then most people understand. Please |
| miles per gallon with ethanol than you do with regular | | | | consider all this in 2006. |