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Originally Posted by TORRED1
I would like to see the cheap ethanol, but I fear thet day will not really come, It will allways be right behind gas in price, just a bit cheaper but not buy much. The E85 on the market now is within .40 cent of regular and yet it does not cost a penny more to produce than it did 6 months ago. but hey thats the market, I understand it, I just hope they dont shoot them selves in the foot. Dont get me wrong im still in favor of ethanol because is home grown and for me that makes it worth it.
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Read
this book.
As the author explains, the only way for Big Oil to feel price pressure from ethanol is if all cars are flex fuel. Then consumers will have a real choice at the pump.
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Zubrin's plan is straightforward and practical. He argues that if Congress passed a law requiring that all new cars sold in the USA be flex-fueled — that is, able to run on any combination of gasoline or alcohol fuels — this one action would destroy the monopoly that the oil cartel has maintained on the globe's transportation fuel supply, opening it up to competition from alcohol fuels produced by farmers worldwide. According to Zubrin's estimates, within three years of enactment, such a regulation would put 50 million cars on the road in the USA capable of running on high-alcohol fuels, and at least an equal number overseas.
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