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The cost of operating and maintaining the EFuel100 vary, depending on rebates (a $1,000 federal tax credit is available) and the cost of the sugar feedstock—it takes 14 pounds (6.4 kilograms) of feedstock to produce a gallon of ethanol. E-Fuel also offers its Carbon Credit Coupon Program, which will allow its customers to buy discounted E-Fuel–certified sugar feedstock for an estimated 15 to 30 cents per pound, the company said Thursday. One of the company's main objectives with the program is to keep the cost of ethanol less than $1 per gallon.




Other than the fact that using ANY kind of food stock as a fuel source during a world wide food shortage is incredibly stupid and selfish, the above numbers just don't add up!

If it takes 14lbs. of sugar to make a gallon, even at the low end of .15 cents a pound (and sugar off the shelf is closer to $1/lbs) it comes out to $2.10 per gallon , NOT the $1/gal the company claims in the very next sentence.
Add in the cost of energy to produce the ethanol and the fact that ethenol is a less efficient form of fuel (20% to 30% less MPG than gasoline), and you're right back to where you started as far as the cost of fueling your vehicle.

And we haven't even started to consider the energy, environmental, and carbon impact made by the farming, transportation, and processing of the basic foodstock into sugars.

Ethenol IS NOT the answer to the fuel crisis.
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