Does it cost more to make ethanol or gasoline ?

Question

Does it cost more to make ethanol or gasoline ?

Answer 1

what type of cost to who?

If it is just money you are thinking of then you are not including the costs to the environment or the food system and the people effected.

Are are you including the cost of the material to refine or making it from scratch?

For oil rich & large oil refineries Gasoline is cheaper than Ethanol.

For people like Brazil that have massive sugar and ethanol production facilities Ethanol is cheaper than gasoline.

To people in countries with food shortages Ethanol production can cost lives as well as $... people do not eat oil so the cost of lives for oil to gas is less than food to ethanol.

Then there is the pollution costs differences between the two fuels...

in short... it depends.

Answer 2

there's just not enough ethanol to run cars all through out the country it's too expensive too so that's why we have gasoline

Answer 3

Ethanol, it's costing me at the gas station, at the grocery store, and on Aptil 15th.

Answer 4

That's a trick question.  The way things are done now, ethanol can be sustained but gasoline will end up getting depleted.  The way things are now, gasoline is cheaper for that very reason.  If gasoline were made in a sustainable way, it would be very expensive.  That's why you've never heard of anyone propose that we keep using gasoline after we've run out of oil.

Answer 5

gasoline, hands down. There are tons of ways to harvest ethanol and its also cheaper to obtain ethanol. Gasoline on the other hand...you have to find it, drill it, make it so it is able to be put into barrels and out on the market. Also refineries are so ******* expensive to make and maintain. America doesn't have that many, but the economy will falter if just one of them is destroyed or damaged....seriously Ethanol is the only way to go or anything that is renewable or umm....doesn't pollute like gas. Seriously I hate Bu$h!

Answer 6

Absolutely ethanol.