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Flex-Fuel cars a reasonable step towards energy independence
Available in some cars today, Flex-Fuel capability costs only about $100 more per vehicle. But market share remains low as stations won’t add special pumps before demand grows. With no widespread alternative to gas, the U.S. remains at the mercy of OPEC, Ahmadinejad and Chavez. Because the U.S. is the leading auto maker, a Flex-Fuel standard would have a ripple effect around the world, reducing global dependence on, and power of these volatile regimes. MORE.
rotor3
July 17, 2008
I disagree with the flex-fuel article for several reasons. Most importantly, alcohol fuels aren't "the answer" that many would have us believe. They produce about 30% less energy per gallon than gasoline, so you're not gonna save any money at the pump when your vehicle goes 30% fewer miles on the same gallon of fuel in your tank. Secondly, alcohol fuels comes primarily from corn. The American farmer only has so much land on which to grow his crops. If he grows corn for fuel, there is less corn for food. Therefore, the price of corn to eat goes up because it is a rarer commodity because we've turned it into alcohol instead of food. And lastly, The United States of America does not NEED to buy one barrel of oil from any other country. WE HAVE AMPLE OIL RESERVES UNDER OUR COUNTRY AND OFF OUR COASTS to power America for at least the next two centuries. And if you add in the Vast Deposits of oil shale, for which we have the technology RIGHT NOW to safely and cleanly extract and turn into oil, we've got more oil reserves than All of the Middle East put together. And I recently read that we can turn coal into oil, at a cost of about $60/barrel, today, even as I write this response. Don't get me wrong. I all for exploring new energy sources. But I'm not for the kinds of "knee-jerk" reactions the radical environmentalists try to force on the American People, which, for the most part, our not-so-esteemed "leaders" in government seem to swallow hook, line, and sinker. We Need Congress to give us a Realistic Energy Policy which takes advantage of the resources GOD Has Given Us. We have the oil. Let's use it. We have the shale. Let's use it. We have the coal. Let's use it. We have nuclear energy. Let's use it. (although probably not in the family car.) Let's use what GOD Has Given Us, while at the same time we move full speed ahead in developing new forms of technology that will power this Great Nation for centuries to come. Flex Fuel is not the answer to anyone's energy problems, but it will hurt the poor of this world as it causes their food costs to rise, because we're using their potential food to power our vehicles, inefficient as it might be. No More Knee Jerk Reactions. Let's think calmly and clearly and come up with Good Solutions to the problems before us.
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