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  • Methanol Wins - It’s time to open up the Open Road with H.R. 1687.

    12/01/2011 10:55:05 PM PST · by neverdem · 59 replies
    NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE ^ | December 1, 2011 | Robert Zubrin
    Methanol WinsIt's time to open up the Open Road with H.R. 1687. On August 2, I published an open wager on National Review Online. I offered to bet up to ten people $10,000 each that I could take my 2007 Chevy Cobalt, which is not a flex-fuel car, and, running it on 100 percent methanol, get at least 24 miles per gallon on the highway. Since methanol averages less than half the price of gasoline — and can readily be made from coal, natural gas, or any kind of biomass without exception — this would demonstrate superior transportation economy from...
  • HR 1687 Open Fuel Standardization Act: a dangerous scheme we can do without

    05/18/2011 12:10:52 PM PDT · by jmaroneps37 · 16 replies
    coachisright.com ^ | May 18, 2011 | Robert Werner, staff writer
    By ACT! for America recently sent out a "Special Action Alert" requesting support for a Rep. John Shimkus [R, IL-19] sponsored bill, H.R. 1687 - Open Fuel Standardization Act. The bill promises "to ensure that new vehicles enable fuel competition so as to reduce the strategic importance of oil to the United States." According to ACT! for America, the bill is "one common sense approach to energy independence!" Reading the actual bill, however, may lead you to a different conclusion. Washington, it seems, has determined that our energy problems are because the auto manufacturers simply aren't giving us the right...