On Wed, 11 May 2005, dyno wrote:

> >>Since alcohols have less energy per volume and must run much richer to
> >>maintain the same relative A/F, one increases the delivered fuel volume.
> >
> > Thereby getting less work (or "power", if you must) out of any given
> > volume of fuel. Exactly.

> Your point was that one could NOT get the power back.

That was (and is) one of my points, and for virtually the entire on-road
fleet in North America, it's quite true. Even the flex-fuel models!