Hate to say it, but I think the ETOH gig is more a reflection of ADM & others bribing various congresshominids than any real effort by our enlightened leadership to solve the problem.
A real solution is to encourage drilling in the ground in the USA and offshore, accompanied by more refinery capacity.
Another real solution is highway construction*, to open up constrictions in the traffic flow and keep things moving rather than the stop-go-stop-go many of us experinece in too many places.
*For example, where I live there is a main highway going north from the interstate. There are probably a dozen five-way stoplights from the interstate to where you're out in the country and things open up.
If the state/county/cities would build overpasses at all those stoplights, N-S traffic would flow, E-W traffic would flow, and hundreds of thousands of man-hours spent sitting at stoplights every week would instead be spent actively moving to one's destination.
Result=Less wasted, nonproductive time on the road, less time spent idling at a light getting 0.0 MPG, less deceleration wear on brakes and tires, less acceleration wear on engines and transmissions and tires =
significantly less fuel burned.
High initial cost? YES.
Cost when in 10 years oil is a real $300/ barrel? Chickenfeed. And I don't mean corn.
Our "leadership" is either 1.)stupid; 2.)not interested in real results because the "lobbyists" (aka bribe agents) have a better idea; or 3.)working actively against an energy-independent USA for whatever reasons they may have individually and collectively.
I hope you enjoy your new Impala. I've occasionally gotten in excess of 32MPG at high speeds with the air going with an 04 3.4.
I do not believe the food-for-fuel program will result in any
real solution other than further enriching the already-unbelievably-wealthy class of self-appointed royalty that has emerged in our [
] republic.
