They will just as soon as your gas prices rise to match those that we pay. Regular unleaded fuel here in the UK costs around £1/litre. There are 3.78 litres to one US gallon, and approximately $2.06 to £1. That means I pay approximately $7.79 per US gallon. Or at least I would do, if I owned a car :lol:Will they catch on here as they have in Europe?
Some people feel that when an honest total calculation is done, production of ethanol is a negative. In other words, it takes more energy to produce it than it provides. However it fulfills that most important of political criteria: Look like you are doing something. It also plays well in the farm states as it is a new market for corn, and therefore their congresscritters like to encourage it.Ethanol fuel is also a non-starter, embraced by big oil and the big four automakers because it's a relatively quick fix to make it look like their doing something. But by all calculations, farming ethanol crops to produce oil requires almost as much energy to produce the fuel as the finished product can provide.
Note to Amtrak: 85% (?) of your trains are diesel powered. Diesel is made from oil. Oil is a finite resource (see above). You have maybe a decade left before oil will leap in price, and maybe less than a century until it's gone. Better start thinking about alternate methods of propelling d'em trains sooner rather than later. And don't bank on your government helping you (although to be honest, has Amtrak ever expected that?).We must reduce DRASTICALLY how much oil and all other fossil fuels we burn because they are finite resources. Whether the globe is warming, cooling, or staying the same is irrelevant to that fact.
What is "strychnine"?There is a rumor floating around investment circles that an unacceptable byproduct of burning ethanol is strychnine. Perhaps some of you in the midwest can extrapolate on this or discount it entirely.
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