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How to Beat the High Cost of Gasoline. Forever!
Stop dreaming about hydrogen. Ethanol is the answer to the energy dilemma. It's clean and green and runs in today's 
cars. And in a generation, it could replace gas.
Fortune Magazine
By Adam Lashinsky and Nelson D. Schwartz
January 24, 2006: 4:09 PM EST


(FORTUNE Magazine) - You probably don't know it, but the answer to America's gasoline addiction could be under the hood 
of your car. More than five million Tauruses, Explorers, Stratuses, Suburbans, and other vehicles are already equipped 
with engines that can run on an energy source that costs less than gasoline, produces almost none of the emissions that 
cause global warming, and comes from the Midwest, not the Middle East.

These lucky drivers need never pay for gasoline again--if only they could find this elusive fuel, called ethanol. 
Chemically, ethanol is identical to the grain alcohol you may have spiked the punch with in college. It also went into 
gasohol, that 1970s concoction that brings back memories of Jimmy Carter in a cardigan and outrageous subsidies from 
Washington. But while the chemistry is the same, the economics, technology, and politics of ethanol are profoundly 
different.