Flex Cars

[Esco!]

Are Flex cars the solution to our oil dependency?????
If I understand the article correctly you can now run a flex car on 100% ethanol with zero gasoline added.
Or you can run it on a blend of both.

Ethanol is made from sugar and therefore has a limitless supply:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1007/p05s01-woam.html

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[shack]

Ethanol is made from sugar and therefore has a limitless supply:

Not that this is a bad idea, but nothing on this earth is of limitless supply. Oil, water or sugar.

 

[BiggieE]

I think the ethanol that can be used as motor fuel is distilled from wood.....whiskey is made from sugar.....


btw...sugar or wood are renewable....all we have to do is plant more....limitless..

 

[Esco!]

I think the ethanol that can be used as motor fuel is distilled from wood.....whiskey is made from sugar.....


btw...sugar or wood are renewable....all we have to do is plant more....limitless..

Biggie, did you read the article??????
Brazil has tons of sugar farms and thats what produces the ethanol.

 

[papasmerf]

Not that this is a bad idea, but nothing on this earth is of limitless supply. Oil, water or sugar.

Water is pretty limitless
But when we consider Hydrogyn we need to consider the odds of a major mishap

 

[BiggieE]

Soory....I did'nt get to read it.....I had always heard that wood based ethanol was the best for fule, and sugar based was for "consumption".....hehe

 

[BiggieE]

There have been some news reports about the oil shale in Wyoming being able to suppy US needs totally for about 150 years....long enough to fully develop other energy sources....