Ethanol-A Blessing in Disguise?

[Ironside]

Incorrect good sir: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/st...emissions.html

That link does not have the actual unpublished report (which I beleive has been done so as of now). The information I have read in the past has indicated that ethanol is actually pollutes more than straight or combined gasoline, but not by a huge margin.

People makes decisions on these kinds of reports?

Because if you're combusting something containing carbon you want as much CO2 as possible as everything else is an energy loss. The important stuff is were the coal itself comes from. So it basically says that the same amount of carbon is used/liter (or wehatever unit that the tail gases meassures in practice) with gasoline and ethanol.