Why you should change your vehicle to flex fuel

You did look at the date of the article you referenced? You may find this more current article enlightening:

Upon further review. The government scotched the deal.

Yes, my fingers outran my brain. 8-)

TDD

Yes, my fingers outran my brain. 8-)

TDD

He must have a *lot* of insanity. He's constantly venting it.

... as long as you don't mind the ecological destruction. Brazil is draining coastal wetlands and burning the rain forest to grow sugar cane.

well, yeah, there's that. But the point that I was making is that you could theoretically run all your farm equipment on ethanol and still have some left over to sell, not making any judgements about other environmental effects that may be equally as undesirable as simply wasting fuel to grow fuel.

nate

=3D=3D And the best part is...that is a RENEWABLE resource whereas the black gooey stuff coming out of the ground is not. =3D=3D

A Verdict on Controlled Oil Burns and Cancer Risk By LESLIE KAUFMAN Fumes from oil burned by spill-response teams in the Gulf of Mexico did not contain enough cancer-causing chemicals to pose a risk to human health, two new studies from the Environmental Protection Agency conclude.

A controlled burn in the vicinity of the leaking BP well in June.The reports are the latest in a series suggesting that some of the lingering effects of the BP spill and cleanup have been milder than feared.

As the slick from the Deepwater Horizon accident threatened Louisiana's delicate shoreline in the spring and summer, government regulators carried out 411 controlled burns along with other mop-up techniques, the agency said. The burns consumed 222,000 to 313,000 barrels of oil, the government estimates.

anyway, i thought you were sending a pic of napoleon dynamite eating tater tots on his bicycle dragging his brother skip behind on a skateboard

how many more do we need. looks like we are in at least one right now

Many years ago a local potato farmer ran his tractors on hooch made from surplus/substandard and damaged potatos. He had an excise permit to produce the stuff but it had to have gasoline added immediately (something like E95) That made sense, but after a few years the still was shut down and he went back to petro-power (deisel)

Sort of. At the rate that some parts of the midwest are losing topsoil, they will be unable to grow corn long before we run out of oil.

"Renewable" should not factor into the equation.

Whale oil is a renewable resource, but Kerosene is cheaper.

It helps, but the current wars are not big enough.

I shudder to think how much worse the economy would be if if were not for the current conflicts.

There's a few commentators out there who believe all the aid poured into Haiti is humanitarian aid masquearading as another war and therefoe masquearading as economic stimulus for US