RE: Why gas instead of electric?
 

Yes, methanol can be made from plants, it wasn't originally called wood alcohol for nothing. You could recharge batteries with a windmill also.

RE: Why gas instead of electric?
 

actually a large portion of the methanol consumed comes from sugar producing crops,sugar cane,sugar beets,and corn to name a few.
alcohol based products are a huge source of fuel in countrys with large quantites of these crops,countrys like Brasil for one.

RE: Why gas instead of electric?
 

The fermentation of sugars by yeast results in ethanol, not methanol. You can not make methanol by fermenting sugar. Methanol was originally called wood alcohol because it was originally found in wood tar, a byproduct of making charcoal.

Methanol is extremely poisonous, ethanol just gets you drunk.

There is a common misconception that if you attempt to make your own whiskey and you don't do everything just right, you will end up with methanol. The truth is that poison moonshine was the result of unscrupulous liquor runners selling industrial alcohol as whiskey.

RE: Why gas instead of electric?
 

dude, you need to use google,I didn't make this stuff up,read it on line, as well as already knowing it from studying it here's a little reasearch info http://www.wiley.com/legacy/college/...l/methanol.htm
biomass resources such as crop residues, grass, forest residues, and the components of municipal solid waste that contain cellulose can all serve as feedstocks.

RE: Why gas instead of electric?
 

After two semesters of inorganic chemistry and two more semesters of organic chemistry in college, I think I know the difference between methanol and ethanol. I never said methanol could not be made from renewable resources. It is however a totally different process than turning sugar cane, corn, etc. into ethanol.

As if reading something on the web makes it true!