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Legitimate Fuel Alternative vs Ethanol Infuriation *LINK*
Posted By: Josh Johnson
Date: Friday, 14 April 2006, at 7:27 p.m.
After reading the link a few posts back about how it takes the equivalent of about 1.3 gals of fossil fuel to make a gallon of ethanol, creating a net loss and a waste of crude oil to make this inferior product, and that it would take cultivating literally 97% of our nation's land area to make enough of the "product" to eliminate our use of crude oil, I am infuriated that this bullsh*t is being stuffed down our throats with utter disregard for intelligent thought. Not to mention the damage it causes to every gasoline engine that tries to use it. E85, my a$$. We've already been through this, years ago, when we had to replace every rubber/neoprene component in every fuel system and rebuild every carburetor that ever came in contact with the stuff. Being the cynic that I am, I have to wonder why both houses of Congress are pushing bills to force this travesty upon us. I, too, immediately thought of ADM and their ilk, and I'm further disgusted by the liberal new-wave Science-channel-esque lobbying for it (along with GM's commercials) pied-pipering the vast band of idiots that make up the public at large in this country down the road to ethanol oblivion. You can figure in another dollar/gallon on TOP of the currently bulging gas prices to supply the fund that you're going to need for annual repairs to whatever gasoline-powered device you are using right now, be it land, sea, or air-borne.
In my opinion, our collective attention and efforts should be directed toward legitimate, useful alternatives such as are represented in the link provided, instead of the short-sighted, me-too, feel-good-for-the-moment approach that all the airheads who can be swayed by the likes of GM's E85 commercials would have us all bow to, by Congressional mandate, no less!
A few years ago, when I first heard about this technology, I think I remember the scientists and principals who were working on it state that it would become economically feasible as an alternative to crude oil once the price of gas reached $1.75/gal. I think we're there. And the beauty of it is that the final product IS crude oil. AND, it utilizes almost any form of carbohydrate or hydrocarbon waste, from the turkey guts mentioned in the article to disgarded computers to presumably the stuff that is overflowing from all the hog-waste "lagoons" in eastern North Carolina that are causing an environmental backlog not unlike the storage of spent nuclear fuels. Does this just make too much common sense to find its way to reality? I be damned if I'm replacing the fiberglass tank in my Bertram 25. With gas prices the way they are I can't afford to run the boat to start with.
http://www.discover.com/issues/may-03/features/featoil/
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