Walthers North American Ethanol Series

[doctorwayne]

Personally, I think all this eco-friendly stuff is a bunch of malarkey...but that's another topic.

You're certainly right about ethanol - its production and delivery has a bigger so-called "carbon footprint" than the petroleum products which it's supposed to replace. In the Third World, it's eating up rainforest faster than farming, too, in addition to taking farms out of food production.

That said, I also think Walthers is barking up the wrong tree with this line of products. We like dirt, soot, grime, grease, and big factories that make a lot of smoke.

Right again, especially for those of us modelling the transition era or earlier. Nothing says "prosperity" better than belching smokestacks, both on locomotives and factories. At least in the good old days, you could see the pollution that was killing you. Nowadays "This product may contain chemicals which are known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm." covers everybody's butt, but leaves you no safer.

Wayne