Posted on 01/02/2009 6:36:51 AM PST by Tarpon
Why is it no one in the orbits of Congress ever says, you know( imitating Caroline Kennedy here) why don't we just do away with the idiotic CAFE rules and while we are at it, why not dump the equally stupid 'gasoline blends' crappola? Don't you think any blithering idiot can figure out how much they can afford to pay for a car and the fuel to run it?
I would also suggest that any first year engineering student could advise you that trying to get that last one percent out of the air pollution equation is going to be tough and expensive, and fraught with dangers -- Like the government mandated MTBE fiasco that no one wants to now talk about. Why no one ever wants to talk about massive failures of government, one of the many mysteries of life.
Ronald Reagan once said:
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.First there was CAFE, then there was regulation, and now we have bailouts. More at NewsBusters.
I take that back, Ethanol has got to fit in the top three, but where would it go?
Oh boy, when you start a list of dumbest ever and it includes a reference to government, WOW does the list get long really quick.
Yes that was true, vapor lock was a real big problem, when suction fuel pumps were hung on hot engine blocks, back in the days of carburettors.
A whole lot of vapor lock is eliminated by putting the fuel pump ‘in the tank’ instead of hung on the side of the hot engine, ala old US car company technology. Return loop fuel systems cure the rest because they return unused fuel to the tank, where it cools. Direct injection engines will likely take vapor lock out of the vocabulary completely.
I don’t agree with the comment. I have had leftover winter gas in an inboard engine and it worked fine when fired up in the summer. Admittedly its a single case but it didn’t blow up, and it was an old style carburetor engine. I have also driven up and down the mountains in Colorado and altitude is a problem, with power output, but not with modern fuel injection engines. Ones like Toyota uses, not like GM uses. Engineering does wonders for oldtime problems.
The pseudo-science often being pushed to further an agenda by the liberal “Oil Drum”, got to watch it over there. Peak oil is one of their biggies, which is total BS. Hello, is that your money going into that site, Mr Soros
why don't we just do away with the idiotic CAFE rules and while we are at it, why not dump the equally stupid 'gasoline blends' crappola? Don't you think any blithering idiot can figure out how much they can afford to pay for a car and the fuel to run it?
Let Detroit Build Profitable Cars
The Wall Street Journal | December 31, 2008 | Holman W. Jenkins
Posted on 12/30/2008 9:02:49 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156541/posts
Why Detroit Has an Especially Bad Union Problem
Wall Street Journal | December 30, 2008 | Logan Robinson
Posted on 12/30/2008 5:30:21 AM PST by reaganaut1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156086/posts
The Bum Rap on Biofuels
American Thinker | 5-13-08 | Herbert Meyer
Posted on 05/14/2008 3:59:06 AM PDT by Renfield
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015711/posts
Campaign to vilify ethanol revealed
ethanol producer Magazine | May 16, 2008 | By Kris Bevill
Posted on 05/17/2008 9:22:13 AM PDT by Kevin J waldroup
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017389/posts
What so many of us have been thinking and saying all along...
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