http://domesticfuel.com/2008/05/15/ethanol-smear-campaign-exposed/ Alternative Fuel News Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:00:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://domesticfuel.com/2008/05/15/ethanol-smear-campaign-exposed/comment-page-1/#comment-83784 Clean_Burning Mon, 19 May 2008 11:56:24 +0000 http://domesticfuel.com/?p=4637#comment-83784 The food for fuel advocates are quick to throw out phrases like, "grow our own fuel" and "keep our money at home." Yet, according to experts, food for fuelers offer no long-term solutions. Since it's domestically abundant, Natural gas is the practical bridge to sustainable energy because 98% of it is in North America RIGHT NOW. What's more, according to the Natural Gas Supply Association, reserves point to at least a 60-year supply. The food for fuel advocates are quick to throw out phrases like, “grow our own fuel” and “keep our money at home.” Yet, according to experts, food for fuelers offer no long-term solutions. Since it’s domestically abundant, Natural gas is the practical bridge to sustainable energy because 98% of it is in North America RIGHT NOW. What’s more, according to the Natural Gas Supply Association, reserves point to at least a 60-year supply.

]]> http://domesticfuel.com/2008/05/15/ethanol-smear-campaign-exposed/comment-page-1/#comment-83781 jlov Mon, 19 May 2008 10:36:21 +0000 http://domesticfuel.com/?p=4637#comment-83781 GM 's sudden stewardship of the environment is simply a way to continue to make gas guzzlers thanks to E85 an extremely inefficient fuel. The CAFE standards call for all car companies to acheive an average MPG for all vehicles. I believe the most recent number is 27 MPG. Well if you make the biggest money off of 10 miles per gallon SUV's you would hate to say good bye to them wouldn't you? The CAFE standards has a loophole, that being that an E85 vehicle operating on E85 miles per gallon are ONLY figured against the actual amount of gasoline in the blend (15%) if you divide 100% fuel by 15% gasoline you get the multipler to the mpg (666) therefore a gas guzzling 10 MPG SUV is given credit for 66.6 MPG. If you sell one SUV like this you can have 5 vehicles only acheiving 20 MPG and this gas guzzling SUV and you average more than 27 MPG overall while not one of their vehicles really met the standard. GM is not the only one taking advantage of this free ride Ford and Chrysler are too. The big three are heading down the toilet and this is just their hands clinging to the rim. GM ’s sudden stewardship of the environment is simply a way to continue to make gas guzzlers thanks to E85 an extremely inefficient fuel. The CAFE standards call for all car companies to acheive an average MPG for all vehicles. I believe the most recent number is 27 MPG. Well if you make the biggest money off of 10 miles per gallon SUV’s you would hate to say good bye to them wouldn’t you?
The CAFE standards has a loophole, that being that an E85 vehicle operating on E85 miles per gallon are ONLY figured against the actual amount of gasoline in the blend (15%) if you divide 100% fuel by 15% gasoline you get the multipler to the mpg (666) therefore a gas guzzling 10 MPG SUV is given credit for 66.6 MPG. If you sell one SUV like this you can have 5 vehicles only acheiving 20 MPG and this gas guzzling SUV and you average more than 27 MPG overall while not one of their vehicles really met the standard.
GM is not the only one taking advantage of this free ride Ford and Chrysler are too. The big three are heading down the toilet and this is just their hands clinging to the rim.

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