Originally Posted by DomesticallyFOB
and whom would those stupid people be? Nobody toted that it would be the fuel of the future, just like it as an alternative. If you dont like it..fine dont use it. Nobody said it would be the end all of fuels. It would be nice to have atleast a percentage of the country using it, so we do not end up relying that heavily on oil.
Right now, it is not that efficient to produce, as it would take alot of crops and farmland just to support or needs.
But there is more technology being developed out there as we speak.
The "stupid people" include anyone who believes anything that the media tell them in a 3-minute story as gospel. People who say they are too busy with their jobs, cars, houses, and families to research the truth behind current events, yet have the time to watch shit like American Idol. People who think that we go to war to bring freedom to foreign countries.
Have any idea how many acres of arable land would be needed to make nationwide E85 a reality? Over 18 million acres. And we don't rotate crops any more, so all that corn has to be grown using chemical fertilizers, which require natural gas to produce, as do our nation's ethanol plants.
if it wasnt a good alternative then why is gm/ford producing so many flexfuel vehicles compatible with it?
even if the goverment did drill for more oil, what do you think theyll do with it?
fucking sell it to other countries like they are doing right now.
dont call people stupid because you cant grasp the idea of of anything else out there becuase you are narrow minded .
this is not a pissing match. was not a debate either, i was simply asking when will we get it, as some parts of the country already are.
so what if it doesnt work out..hey atleast some of us tried.
GM and Ford produce so many E85 compatible vehicles because it's easy and cheap to do, and there are many large government vehicle fleets that run their cars on ethanol. The car companies are both improving their image before the public and taking advantage of scale to lower their E85 compatibilty costs. Most E85 cars are shit we wouldn't buy anyway.
As far as my being narrow minded, nothing could be further from the truth. I have researched energy dependence quite thoroughly for the past year and a half. I know there are no real alternatives to fossil fuels, as much as people would like to think there are. I suggest you start learning by reading "the end of oil" -- a good piece of research on energy dependence. Then research "peak oil" a bit.