Why don’t we use ethanol in our car fuel instead of using crude oil because crude oil is getting low and ethanol is a

Question: Why don't we use ethanol in our car fuel instead of using crude oil because crude oil is getting low and ethanol is a natural and renewable fuel used in rocket fuel and I think plane fuel too?
- Keywords:
  crude oil,
  ethanol,
  fuel
Asked by XAVINO to Sarah, Priyanka on 17 Mar 2016.
- Sarah Hargreaves answered on 17 Mar 2016:
  
  Hi Xavino,
  
  Good to chat to you the other day in the live chats! Unfortunately I don’t think I can answer this question as I specialise in Nuclear engineering. Have you tried asking this question to Ryan? Ryan woks for Jaguar – Land Rover so he knows all about the design of car engines 🙂

Question: Why don't we use ethanol in our car fuel instead of using crude oil because crude oil is getting low and ethanol is a natural and renewable fuel used in rocket fuel and I think plane fuel too?