Ethanol vs Butanol, Why has America Chosen Ethanol?

I've been wondering this. Ethanol requires modifications to a Gasoline engine in order to properly work and doesn't put out as much as Gasoline.





Butanol on the other hand requires no modifications to a gasoline engine and puts out as much power as gasoline.





Recently Dupont and BP have teamed up overseas in the UK to create Butanol.





Since the 1950s, most butanol in the United States is produced commercially from fossil fuels. The most common process starts with propene, which is run through an hydroformylation reaction to form butanal, which is then reduced with hydrogen to butanol. Butanol can also be produced by fermentation of biomass by bacteria. Prior to the 1950s, Clostridium acetobutylicum was used in industrial fermentation processes producing butanol. Research in the past few decades showed results of other microorganisms that can produce butanol through fermentation. %26lt; Off of Wiki.





I'll provide the links to both Wiki's for Ethanol and Butanol, you be the Judge.|||its all about money.... who do you think is going to be making this ethanol and butanol? still the fuel companies


the only environmental stuff they do they do to look good they dont actually care about anything but money


basically if one company sets itself up to make ethanol and then says hey everyone lets get environmental then suddenly they have an edge over the other companies


i dont think theyre actually serious about switching to an alternative fuel source and they just put it out there to look good.


Like, i got nothing against the environment, but when i go to the gas station im just going to buy the unleaded gas or whatever.


To be honest im not even sure if my car will run on ethanol and theres no way id buy a new car like i could even afford to just to put ethanol in it.