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To be successful, CO2 must be reduced with renewable energy into chemical building blocks, from which the chemical industry can be supported. Circular strategies include leveraging photosynthesis to produce sugar and lipid intermediates or renewable electricity to produce hydrogen or other electron carriers to support CO2 reduction. Acetogens can anaerobically reduce CO2 with H2 to produce mixtures of small organic molecules in gas fermentations. We previously demonstrated that acetate, a common product of gas fermentation, can be converted to the model oleochemical dodecanol in engineered Escherichia coli. Here, we explored the conversion of ethanol and mixtures of ethanol and acetate to the same model oleochemicals. Co-feeding ethanol can supply both carbon and additional reducing power relative to acetate alone. In this work, we engineered E. coli to catabolize ethanol and expressed two distinct ethanol metabolism pathways in different operons and combined them with improved engineered acetate activation. We evaluated the performance of these operons in dodecanol-producing strains when fed ethanol or acetate and found ethanol to be a better carbon source when judged by product titers. The engineered strains fed ethanol produced about two-fold more dodecanol than the strains fed acetate. This increase was in part, due to change in product distribution. Cells fed ethanol produced predominantly dodecanol, whereas cells fed acetate generated a mixture of dodecanol and dodecanoic acid. 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