http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...pinion_LEADTop

BTW, Peter and his wife both ride Harleys.

 

Well......... the world has Osama bin laden to thank for this NOT the US,I say lettem starve rather than have one more American GI die in the middle east.

 

......The trouble is it's all about money/politics.

 

Ethanol was designed to create an alternative- non-petroleum fuel that would be easier on the environment as well as lower production costs. Problem is that it does neither. It burns at 75% the efficiency rate as gasoline, therefore more is needed to product the same amount of energy, and gasoline is not directly priced off of production costs as much as it is speculation and price fixing. Speculators are the ones who keep fuel costs up, and they stand to make HUGE money off of it. When Ethanol came out, it did bring down the cost of fuel slightly, but soon went back up to where it was before. In turn, we are not saving any money on the cost of fuel (to the contrary, it's lower burn rate makes it more expensive), we are just cutting production costs to pad the pockets of those who sell it. Just as with all fuel price surges, the cost will spike up overnight and then drift down over several months. This fast climb and slow fall is called "rockets and feathers". It is sort of like Coca-Cola watering their product down fifty percent, then dropping the price $.25, then hiking the cost back up $.25 in two weeks. Eventually you are just paying the same price for a lesser quality product. Here is some food for thought. If fuel was priced off anything but speculation and fixing, then why does gasoline keep going down and up yet diesel remains unchanged? Diesel regulates the cost of everything, eventually, as everything is trucked in on diesel trucks. Nothing will change until OPEC is broken up due to being a monopoly, people stop whining and do something about this, and speculation is seen for the illegal trade practice that it is. Annually it may go up on average $1.50 a gallon and then down $1.00. We base our thinking off of the higher, $1.50 more that we were paying, and praise the situation, when in actuality gasoline has not gone down $.050, it actually has gone up $1.00. This way of thinking is dangerous, as those who price are corrupt and see this as a chance to slide prices up again.
Incidentally, petroleum fuels such as diesel are inferior to natural biodiesels. The reason petroleum has always been used is because petroleum oil was so much cheaper than veggie fuels, but this has not been the case for several years. Ethanol is a mutant fuel, and is not only less efficient, but destructive to the fuel system and engine due to it's corrosive properties. Ethanol drives the price of corn up, which drives the cost of animal feed up, and is an inferior product. There are other ways to produce natural fuel than ethanol. All in all, you will not see a change until the politics of gas pricing is changed. The government would have been much better off spending the bailout money on buying energy companies and regulating their prices to a normal cost, say $1.25 a gallon, which would then drive the cost of other competing companies down as well. It would cost less and yield more.

 

Then, again, there is the ethical question of converting millions of acres of farmland away from food production at a time when food prices are soaring, and starvation looms in much of the world. More money for the food speculators!

 

If you want more power out of your bike, if you want better MPG, if you want to stop putting fuel that corrodes your fuel delivery system..Use Ethanol Free gas...check out this LINK for where you can get it.

BTW, you will be doing your part to help bring down food prices.

Kevin

 

Corn is a food staple world wide.

By diverting food crops to fuel crops, it drives world wide poverty and the resultant starvation, disease and child malnutrition.

Corn is a food crop....get it the hell out of the fuel business......if not, it's soon going to cost you an hours wages to buy a box of corn flakes.

 

what Mustang said.

Ethanol is like a condom.. it gives you false sense of security while you are being screwed. It costs about 25% more to produce and it produces 25% less energy; net gain -50%. If it were not for subsidies ethanol would cost more than gasoline! Did anyone mention it is also a solvent and absorbs water... both characteristics are not good for a fuel system.

We can also discuss how dumb it is to be developing a fuel out of our food source. Ethanol produced from corn is just plain crazy; only winners are the huge "Argo" corporations!

Does our country need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil? YES!
Do we need to eliminate the speculators who's only function is to make money by driving up the price of fuel? YES
Do we need to tap into our domestic oil reserves? YES
Do we need to invest in alternative energy sources? YES
Is ethanol the answer? HELL NO!
Does Ethanol reduce our carbon footprint? ABSOLUTELY NOT!

Wait until they start blending 15% into our gasoline; get ready to rebuild your carb every 6 months! I'm not sure what is it going to do to our rubber fuel lines, fuel pumps and winter storage... but I can guess.

 

Here is the real answer to world hunger


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0q4o58pKwA

 

I LMAO when I saw this skit. That was about 25 years ago! Still funny. Still true