SKIRMISHER

It’s made of corn but it’s not corny. In fact, it’s 2 million percent serious.

It’s corn-based ethanol, and if this article hits it right on the money, it’s going to power the engines of the future. Yep, even your girlfriend’s dildo. OK, maybe not your girlfriend’s dildo. But you get the picture.

But what’s the basis of this bright and shining gasoline-free future?

Says Newsfactor:

About three decades ago, Brazil decided to use its overabundance of sugarcane to decrease its overdependence on foreign oil. It created an industry of sugarcane-based ethanol, a grain alcohol fuel. That effort kicked into high gear a few years ago, when “flex-fuel” vehicles that can run on up to 100 percent sugarcane ethanol reached a critical mass in Brazil. The alternative to gasoline took off.

If you’re wondering, why only now? Well, ethanol’s been here since the Model T days of yore. Somehow, it got sideswept along the way by gasoline, which offered greater power.

But these days, ethanol is having a resurgence, what with all the global fuck-ups we now face (I won’t name names; my mouth’s feeling raw from saying the same stupid names over and over). Good News No. 1 is that ethanol is renewable–you only have to grow corn, and if you’re running out of corn, import it all from the Philippines (Oooops, that was a shameless plug). Good News No. 2 is that vehicles running on corn-based ethanol, those “flex-fuels,” are increasingly closing the gap on the issue if mileage.

And Good News No. 3: you don’t have to endure anymore empty rhetoric.

THE NEW FUEL THAT WILL SHAPE THE FUTURE [NewsFactor]

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