It requires about 4 gallons of water to make one gallon of alcohol fuel.

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Stedman, a chemistry professor at the University of Denver, said there are several problems with the alcohol fuel, one being that it messed up the fuel pump in a car he uses.

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It does not make sense economically as ANY alcohol fuel cost more to produce and supply than the gasoline it is replacing especially if you consider the infrastructure improvements necessary to transport and contain the material and the engineering required to design an engine that can run on it.

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It is suggested that taxes on alcohol, fuel and property should rise by 3.0%, in line with the Guernsey inflation rate for September 2012.

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The killing looks like revenge for Mr Knezevic's arrest of a former director of Centrex, the company through which hardliners have financed their activities by selling contraband coffee, tobacco, alcohol and fuel.

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That work is still ongoing at MIT, but the pair left, with the idea of using the same silicon micromachining technology to build tiny "reformers" that could separate pure hydrogen from alcohol for fuel cells.

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There is pressure to extend the scheme to cover alcohol and lighter fuel.

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Then comes the free alcohol, which seems to fuel many of my colleagues here.

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