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Ethanol Fuel Additives. A bad Idea?

May 26, 2006 00:52

I saw something on T.V. recently and got all excited about E-85.
A blend of Ethanol 85% to Gasoline 15%. It looked like an alternative
fuel that is completely renewable, cost effective and more gentle on the
evironment.
So why haven't we done this before? Is there a Catch?

You betcha!To summarize, this solution has actually driven prices ( Read more... )

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In a perfect world anonymous May 27 2006, 14:37:21 UTC

I think that in a perfect world where all Americans were truly concerned about the environment/the future of the plant we would have no trouble at all conserving fuel and doing things like purchasing more economical vehicles.

Hitting people in the wallet is not making a difference, honestly. I couldn't imagine spending $100 or more a week just to fill my gas tank, but I know so many people that do.

And mass-transit is a wonderful idea, but not very popular because we've become spoiled to a system of convenience. With your own car you can travel at your lesiure instead of on someone else's schedule. I actually looked into taking the bus to get around town here. But the closest bus stop to my house is over two miles, and the schedule only has busses running between the hours of 8 am and 6 pm. Ummm, I have to be at work by 7, and I don't get out until after 6:30. So, for all it's worth, it's useless in so many instances. Besides, I can't see myself schlepping my groceries 2 miles.

I think the biggest answer to conservation is re-aligning the american attitude of greed and selfishness to better mesh with the rest of the world. In other words-we need to get our heads out of our asses!

In a better world... qu0thraven May 27 2006, 14:42:42 UTC

Totally!
You make your point succinctly,
(I tend to be verbose)
and I couldn't agree more!

BTW who are you?

Re: In a better world... anonymous May 27 2006, 23:21:13 UTC

Lmao! It's Angie. Sorry, I don't have a livejournal account and totally forgot that I was "anonymous"!

Re: In a perfect world daine_alexander June 1 2006, 00:16:02 UTC

This is why I want to be a city planner! Make everything convenient and walkable. So long as people insist on having an acre of land in the boonies, public transit will never be viable. We need to build self-sustaining communities and end the sprawl! Easier said than done. Hong Kong is a VERY dense city that happens to have the ONLY PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEM IN THE WORLD THAT MAKES A PROFIT! All others are heavily subsidized, even New York's. I think people are afraid of cities. Well, you can have all the convieniences with out the hassle. How a series of small towns set at different stations along a railroad? The Portland Metro Area does that With the TriMet (http://www.trimet.org/tip/index.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_in_Portland). Even Delaware has a "village" propsed for the area between the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal and Shallcross Lake north of Middletown. It's called the Village of Bayberry
(http://www.villageofbayberry.com/). I would love to see it built, but ONLY if it has connections to DART and the train that they are proposing between Wilmington and Dover. Also, if they build Bayberry, they need to leave the area around preserves and un-built-upon. It won't happen, sprawl will continue with a town in the middle, just like the Ardens, Bellefonte, Elsmere, Newport, even Odessa nowadays. Well...there's my rant : )

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