Excellent suggestion! Until we can get the infrastructure in place to fuel with hydrogen or enough hybrids to satisfy demand, the intermediate way to break free from the perils of foreign oil dependence will be E85 ethanol. If we can increase the energy per unit by using sugar-based ethanol products , we’ll go a long way to making E85 economical and practical.

I asked the US Representative for my district to support HR6183, which would remove the tariff on imported ethanol. You have to keep pestering members of congress, or they will not do anything.

Very true — the nation needs more stations and more ethanol production (and distribution). The same is true with all of the other alternative fuels — hydrogen cars are huge in the news, but there aren’t many places where people can fill them up in the US.