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asphalt; let’s give it a quirky name...we'll call it gazoline. And because
the gazoline has a higher energy density than ethanol, we'll probably get
much better MPG."
So they fill their fuel tanks with the gazoline and they do a road test with assorted vehicles to determine MPG. But when they return and calculate the miles
traveled and the fuel used, they would find that their vehicles using gazoline got
fewer miles per gallon than with ethanol. They scratch their heads and they
consult a mechanical engineer and possibly a chemical engineer. The engineer(s) ponders the information. The results defy everything they were taught
in school. He (or she) would be confused. He/she would say:
"I don't get it, the gazoline has more energy content per gallon than ethanol; when I use the gazoline as fuel to heat water it boils the water faster
than the same amount of ethanol. It must produce more miles per gallon,
but it doesn't."
Eventually, the engineer(s) would make alterations to the vehicle engines to fit
the characteristics of how gazoline is ignited and burned. At that point, the engineer(s) would say:
"Wow, when it comes to internal combustion engines, energy content...that is, energy density...in other words, BTU rating...doesn't matter.
What matters is how the engine is optimized."
I'm not saying that gasoline and diesel fuel doesn't have a higher energy content; I'm not saying that the BTU measuring system is faulty; I'm saying that
BTU rating (energy content) is irrelevant when it comes to internal combustion
engines, and the oil industry's entire story of greater energy content is just a
marketing scam to sell the poison they call gasoline and diesel fuel. It's said
that elephants "never forget"... neither should the public. The oil industry is only
interested in themselves...not the general public, not their specific customers,
and not for any national ideals.
