Knot Waiting
Senior Chief Petty Officer
- Joined
- Jun 23, 2006
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This has probably been posted several times before but I didnt get to voice my opinion on them. So here goes...
Considering the tilling, planting, harvesing, and transporting of E85 producing crops we use 1.5 gallons of petroleum to make a single gallon of ethanol. (oil is transported via quiet and efficient pipelines)
The equipment reaping the E85 crop cannot run biodisel because it fouls egr valves and the like (it voids John Deere, CAT, and Ford warranties if you run biodisel)
Ethanol delivers about 2/3 the fuel economy of regular gasoline and barely costs ANY less.
Most vehicles cannot run E85 and even the ones that can do so poorly and with frequent fuel related problems (I should know I work for Ford service)
We still have over 4 billion cars, trucks, boats, etc, that will NEVER be able to run on this junk
E85 has never been proven to pollute less in the long run, in fact the rendering facilities actually pollute more.
Bush outsourced 72% of our ethanol production to switchgrass growers in Brazil (Yet another foregin country producing our oil, wtf is the point?)
And... now that food is at its highest retail prices ever we are caught wondering why.... Hmmm... Maybe because FOOD was never meant to be a goddamn fuel supply...
Just stupid that we even pursued this endevor. Someone got rich and we got screwed. Thats my rant, just had to get it out there , thanks - Logan
Considering the tilling, planting, harvesing, and transporting of E85 producing crops we use 1.5 gallons of petroleum to make a single gallon of ethanol. (oil is transported via quiet and efficient pipelines)
The equipment reaping the E85 crop cannot run biodisel because it fouls egr valves and the like (it voids John Deere, CAT, and Ford warranties if you run biodisel)
Ethanol delivers about 2/3 the fuel economy of regular gasoline and barely costs ANY less.
Most vehicles cannot run E85 and even the ones that can do so poorly and with frequent fuel related problems (I should know I work for Ford service)
We still have over 4 billion cars, trucks, boats, etc, that will NEVER be able to run on this junk
E85 has never been proven to pollute less in the long run, in fact the rendering facilities actually pollute more.
Bush outsourced 72% of our ethanol production to switchgrass growers in Brazil (Yet another foregin country producing our oil, wtf is the point?)
And... now that food is at its highest retail prices ever we are caught wondering why.... Hmmm... Maybe because FOOD was never meant to be a goddamn fuel supply...
Just stupid that we even pursued this endevor. Someone got rich and we got screwed. Thats my rant, just had to get it out there , thanks - Logan