More Ethanol in Costa Rica

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Submitted by gueguense on January 25, 2009 - 11:22am
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Just noticed this article from south of the border.   "all gasoline sold in [Costa Rica] will have 7 percent ethanol content [beginning in March]"

http://www.indexcontact.com/contenido/informacion_articulo.php?id=1806

I hope it'll be good quality.... looks like they are making it from sugar cane (no surprise) but also yuca!

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As for efficiency, I do think that ethanol makes more sense from sugar cane versus corn, though I don't have the data on it.  As for yuca, well, that hardly seems to be famous for biomass, but what do I know.

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ethanol as fuel

Submitted by georges on February 14, 2009 - 8:38am.

As an alterbative energy to use ethanol as fuel it make sense only if its create jobs and we all pay for it. remeber that the use of ethanol in a car engine uses double the amount of ethanal that gasoline. as an example, if you use 1 gallon of gasoline in a car and obtain 20 miles, you will need 2 gallons of ethanol for the same mileage.
Just like in the US where it is mandated to put 10% ethanol in gasoline, the consumer do not realize they just have a price hike but it create jobs in the corn industry.

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