How about giving everyone a $100 credit to convert their cars to run on ethanol?
The actual conversion costs, well, $100 dollars. So this would be perfect.
Prior to that, of course, you'd actually have to grow more corn... but with millions of acres lying fallow, I think we're more than prepared for that. Why haven't we started a national ethanol conversion? Brazil did, and they are achieving exactly what we are talking about: losing our dependence on foreign oil.
This is a relatively inexpensive process using existing technologies. What's the holdup?
Love to all. Even you, the dude who beeped before the light turned green.
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yeah, but then someone in the oil business might lose money, and we can't have that!! Plus, if we stop buying cude oil, what will we use to replace Vaseline and Baby Oil??
good gravy, if they would just make ethanol available, I would happily pay 100 bucks out of my own pocket to convert my car.
Most sensible suggestion I have seen yet on this subject.
Actually, believe it or not, one of the reasons for these f... ridiculous prices is exactly ethanol; Refineries are now required to use that when they blend gas. I guess corn farmers have a deep political pocket... .
I started to write about this a week or so ago and never finished :(
Shqipo - regardless, ethanol will get cheaper as it gets more plentiful... and it's a sustainable product. In Brazil, where they have completed a ramp-up of real ethanol production, it's a LOT cheaper than gasoline.
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