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Old 04-22-2007, 09:13 PM   #9
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Yeah, fascinating to be sure...but I'm tired of articles like this that say things like "ethanol produces more hydrocarbons than gasoline. And ozone is the product of hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxide cooking in the sun."

Ethanol and gasoline ARE hydrocarbons, the statement doesn't make sense in the way they present it.
Ethanol is not actually a hydrocarbon, it's an alcohol, which are hydrocarbon derivatives. It doesn't seem like much, but substituting that one hydrogen for an oxygen really changes a lot of a substance's properties.
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