- Ethanol doesn’t provide as much energy as Gasoline, meaning cars running on Ethanol get fewer miles per gallon than those running on Gasoline (https://greengarageblog.org/8-pros-and-cons-of-corn-ethanol)
- Ethanol is estimated to decrease a vehicle’s gas mileage from 20%-30 (http://healthresearchfunding.org/pros-cons-ethanol-fuel/)
- Ethanol Gasoline is corrosive to steel, meaning that transportation becomes an issues. New piping would have to be put in place, or some other form of transportation would need to be figured out, which has potential to be quite expensive. (https://greengarageblog.org/8-pros-and-cons-of-corn-ethanol) (http://greenthefuture.com/ETHANOL_PROSCONS.html)
- Corn, which is used in the production of corn ethanol, is a food crop. Using it in the production of fuel may increase the price of corn and reduce the amount available for human consumption. This may disproportionately affect the poor. (https://greengarageblog.org/8-pros-and-cons-of-corn-ethanol)
- The Majority of corn used for fuel is “No. 2 yellow field corn” which is apparently not eaten by people, so this argument is of limited credibility. (http://gas2.org/2011/07/02/5-common-ethanol-myths-exposed-as-crap/)
- The corn used in making Corn Ethanol requires a lot of water usage, some of which may be polluted to an unusable state. (http://www.gracelinks.org/1181/the-rush-to-corn-based-ethanol-not-all-biofuels-are-created-equa)
- The amount of water used in the production of corn ethanol is hundreds of times that used to produce gasoline. (https://www.phoenixprojectfoundation.us/uploads/The_Many_Problems_of_Ethanol.pdf)
- “Corn erodes soil 18 times faster than it can reform” (https://www.phoenixprojectfoundation.us/uploads/The_Many_Problems_of_Ethanol.pdf)
- “Ethanol land requirements: Approximately 50 gallons of ethanol are produced per acre of corn. Thus 2.8 billion acres of land would be required to generate 140 billion gallons of fuel used in the USA annually, which is more than 5 times all of the cropland that is actually and potentially available for all crops in the USA.” (https://www.phoenixprojectfoundation.us/uploads/The_Many_Problems_of_Ethanol.pdf)
- E85 increases acetaldehyde emissions, something thought to be a carcinogen. (http://www.afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/flexible_fuel_emissions.html)
