“Just ban gasoline sales. Problem solved, right?”
Actually, i’d say that the problem would be solved in a matter of days.
“”Just ban gasoline sales. Problem solved, right?”
Actually, i’d say that the problem would be solved in a matter of days.””
No you are thinking too small the government never thinks small they don’t need too. Trying to ban the sale of an item at 50000+ points of sale is a losing plan. There are only a few dozen refineries in this country the government will ship the production of gasoline for civilian use and use FEDLEO force to keep the limited supply produced for governmental use in armed secured facilities. This is how you end gasoline consumption.
Ethanol can be made with fermentation just like Henry Ford did originally for the Model T it was designed for and ran on ethanol first. Ford was a huge backer of ethanol made at the local farm level,he even showed how a single acre of.potatoes could make enough ethanol to plant and harvest 100 other acres this was with early 1900s level tech and efficiencies. Ford always was a genius. Still pun intended there wouldn’t be enough ethanol for the gas superuser crowd Google that term if needed. For the average person their 40 mile per day commute would take a few gallons per day that is doable with ethanol from MSW+construction wastes,crop residues,and pulp and paper wastes. Modern GMO microbes can eat cellulose and turn it into ethanol w/o huge costs or complex catalysts it’s a big stainless steel tank and some pipes. It’s boomer fud that ethanol “eats engines” if Henry Ford can design in the 1910s an engine that eats ethanol the answer is obvious. My SAAB and Volvo both ran/run on E85 or E98 with a software flash both had/have well over 100K on them and neither has a hint of issue using ethanol fuels. Small cheap mostly chicom built lawn tools might struggle with E10_85 but modern fuel injected engines can burn it with a software flash or a ECU box attached to the fuel injector leads the kits are like $600 to go E98.
Let’s not forget that Brazil for two plus decades ran its entire fleet off pure sugarcane ethanol as E100 and still does E90 or E70 by law. Unlike methanol ethanol is not toxic on the skin membrane or inhaled. Isopropanol,iso/N butanol both make excellent fuels either is 105+ octane here again GMO microbes will happily turn out either from a slew of wastes streams or sugar sources even five carbon sugars that are useless to monogastrics. Long term humans will have to stop using liquid hydrocarbons that’s a very real issue of resource depletion and a over populated planet.