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Re: flexfuel
DistortedLullaby #199154 03/05/08 02:06 PM
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Corn-derived ethanol is liquid evil. The production of ethanol consumes 29% more energy than it produces, it drives up the prices of corn products for the poor, and it dumps more CO2 into the atmosphere than gasoline when you take production into account.

http://science-community.sciam.com/blog-entry/Sciam-Observations/Corn-Kind-Worst-Thing/300004380

http://www.grist.org/comments/food/2006/12/13/fuel_vs_food/

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pmbuko #199157 03/05/08 02:24 PM
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uh ... what he said!

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medic8r #199160 03/05/08 03:01 PM
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Yeah what he said! It's not so good to engines either on the long run.

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pmbuko #199169 03/05/08 04:09 PM
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All politics aside, everything I have read tells me that bio-fuels are costing us as much energy and create as much carbon emissions during thier creation as they save during their usage. We have started seeing flour shortages here in Eastern Canada already which, I am sure, are at least 'partly' to blame on the farmers switching to bio-fuel crops.

That being said, we definitely, absolutely need to experiment with alternative fuels. So if it leads to a truly renewable and eco-friendly fuel source in the future then perhaps it is a worthy experiment.

I see a couple of experimental Hydrogen fueled buses in the city where I work as of late, as well. Ford is experimenting with hydrogen fuel in climates with greater temperature variances, Alternating hot to very cold seasons.

I am a bit more exited about these but know that realistically, production of Hydrogen is still not giving us a perfect score on the eco side. However, if it proves to be solid enough that ways are found to produce it cleanly in massive, mass production, then again, probably a worthy experiment. At least this one is not effecting our food supply.

We also have some government sponsored wind farms here that are proving interesting. Expensive to start up but soon we will just have to face that we need to spend some money on alternative energy, weather it's rate of return makes financial sense or not.

I hope these comments are broad enough to not spark too much controversy. I think these are actually very important discussions and a little heat might be better than avoiding them. Of course, I haven't searched for whatever happened last time, heh heh.


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Murph #199180 03/05/08 05:21 PM
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I enjoyed the politics thread when it was around 4 years ago. Sure, it got a bit unruly at times, but overall I thought it was handled pretty well.

I'm interested in what happens next election wise on the Democratic side, being a PA resident, and PA being the next big state that they will be trying to win.

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Zarak #199199 03/05/08 06:45 PM
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Zarak #199201 03/05/08 06:53 PM
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 Originally Posted By: Zarak
I'm interested in what happens next election wise on the Democratic side, being a PA resident, and PA being the next big state that they will be trying to win.

Yeah, I imagine your TV will sound like a town hall meeting pretty soon, with all this money the candidates have raised. They'll be able to buy commercials out the wazoo.

I continue to be interested in the race too. It's been a long time since a real, extended race like this. All too often there's a lot of piling on of the me-too voters who just go with the front-runner and that's that. Nothing interesting between early February and the conventions in the summer. In 2004 I went out of the country for a week in late January with all of the candidates lining up at the starting line, and then when I got back, Kerry was the presumptive nominee, or so it seemed.


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medic8r #199209 03/05/08 08:03 PM
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Now, as far as I know, other biofuels are better--switchgrass comes up a lot, and that's easy to grow and actually is a net positive on energy production. I'll try to find some articles.


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Ken.C #199220 03/05/08 09:19 PM
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What Chrysler is doing is that they are currently coming out with biofuel (flexfuel) and two hybrid Hemis vehicles, and even a certified green dealership that is under construction in florida.

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DistortedLullaby #199225 03/05/08 10:28 PM
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I saw a Hummer H2 with a license plate "TRED HVY" and it really pissed me off.

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