It's pretty simple once broken down:
Among other problems, like we're running out of it, fossil fuel use moves Carbon from the lithosphere into the atmosphere at rates that are upsetting to all systems (major understatement), while ethanol is just part of a terrestrial/atmospheric cycle.
Thus, methanol and ethanol are not as deadly. But, really, it's all stupid when we could get all of what we need from the sun and wind.
We really really could, with little in the way of new technologies. If we implemented new technologies, including storage solutions and a new smart grid, and conservation strategies, we could do it in one decade.
The best POV I've read is Tesla's:
'If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful, and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations.
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