-At the end of 2011, Congress allowed the corn (a starch) ethanol subsity to expire, which was good. Ethanol derived from a renewable resourse was good, but from corn was bad. It drove the price of foods, digested by humans through the roof. Plus it never met the criteria of replacing gasoline per se, for several reasons other than economic. 1) not as efficient as gasoline, 2) its senative to mositure,3) made distribution and storage complicated and costly 4) and because of the above issues, the internal combustion engine had to be modified or the ethanol concentration reduced to say 10 to 15% thus E10 or E15 were born. It was a bumber, but it did make corporate farmer rich and created several ETOH conversions plants around the country that can be used for other forms of syn-fuel as noted below.
-Creating 1-butanol from cellulose rather than a starch is a viable option. This technology has been around since before WWI. Its a component of corn stalks, switch grasses, wood chips, etc stuff humans can't digest.
-1-butanol packs 1.5X as much energy than plain unleaded gal. of gasoline, is less volatile, its not sensitive to water, its less flammable, has slightly higher octane rating, can be mixed with gasoline in any proportion, PLUS you don't have to modify the current internal combustion engines to use it at higher concentrations.
-pp should add this fuel to the mix and let the free market place prove it's continued use.
-Currently, pp is at the Pentigon, hacking and wacking away with the USA's military budget.
-This guy has to be given his shipping out documents on November,6 2012, and gone by Janurary 20,2013, at high noon.
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