We've already seen the results of a car fueled by alcohol and Senatorial hot air.
Posted on 02/27/2005 9:32:58 PM PST by ddtorque
Tomorrow, President Bush could make the following speech: "We are all concerned that the industrialized world, and increasingly the developing world, draw too much of their energy from one product, petroleum, which comes disproportionately from one volatile region, the Middle East. This dependence has significant political and environmental dangers for all of us. But there is now a solution, one that the United States will pursue actively. "It is now possible to build cars that are powered by a combination of electricity and alcohol-based fuels, with petroleum as only one element among many. My administration is going to put in place a series of policies that will ensure that in four years, the average new American car will get 300 miles per gallon of petroleum. And I fully expect in this period to see cars in the United States that get 500 miles per gallon. This revolution in energy use will reduce dramatically our dependence on foreign oil"
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Sounds good, hope it becomes a reality.
The future, for the next century, rests with oil. Not necessarily conventional oil -- we will pump the Alberta tar sands, make oil from turkey guts, etc. All are much cheaper than growing massive amounts of corn for burning.
A possibility is a car that runs on hot air. Just get the democrat senators and congress critters to give a lot of speeches. Then, there will be enoung hot air for the next millenium.
I like the story about the oil reserves off the coast of LA that MIGHT actually refill itself as you pump it out....
it say per gallon of pertoleum is that different than per gallon of gasoline
There would be greater concern for a road tax instead of fuel independance I am sad to say.
We've already seen the results of a car fueled by alcohol and Senatorial hot air.
I can get better than 500 mpg with a squirt gun, just lift a cats tail and squirt it with gasoline and measure how far it runs.
I like how this article talks about the "price" of a gallon of ethanol/methanol... yeah, but how much ENERGY does such a gallon contain? How far can a car run on it.
There's only so much energy in a gallon of gas or diesel fuel. Even if an engine were 100% efficient it would get nowhere near 300 MPG in a modern comfortable safe (therefore heavy) automobile that will carry several people and luggage.
Should read this guy's http://www.mikebrownsolutions.com/aeindex.htm articles re: alternative fuel, and high fuel economy.
IIRC, I believe my dad once told me 1 gallon of oil (depending on quality) usually yields like 2.5 gallons of gasoline.
Per gallon of what?
Are you proposing Congress repeal the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
I wish president bush could decree that every day, one billion dollars will be deposited in my bank account.
It sounds good and I hope it becomes a reality.
Oh, I want a pony, too.
All oil fields replenish themselves - it's not a story - it's just a reality.
We will never run out of oil. At least not until the core of the planet cools to the point of becoming a solid mass.
Once you stop believing the environmentalist's/oil industry's joint propaganda about oil (saying it will run out) and actually study geochemistry from an open point of view, the abundance of available oil is staggering.
The energy density of ethanol is 7.85 kilowatt hours per kilogram compared with gasoline at 12.2 kilowatt hours per kilogram.
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