Re: [Biofuel] End of cheap oil is a blessing
consider instead the fact that you might well have been an idiot to buy such a vehicle in the first place that is so true! On 4/13/05, MH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: End of cheap oil is a blessing MITCHELL ANDERSON Apr. 13, 2005 Canada http://www.thestar.com Enraged about the high price of gas? A trip to the corner store might provide a much-needed reality check to the indignation over excessive fuel costs. Have a quick look at what you can buy for a dollar a litre. Milk? Nope. Bottled water? Not likely. Roofing tar? No way. For all the shrill outrage about rising prices, gas remains by far the most outrageously underpriced commodity in the world. Consider the long journey that a litre of gas makes from faraway oil fields to your local filling station. Oil deposits must first be found often on the other side of the world or on the bottom of the ocean. After massive infrastructure is developed, oil is extracted, transported across the globe, refined, and trucked thousands of kilometres to where you live. Let's not forget the massive military expenditures from countries like the U.S. to secure foreign oil supplies and the political and human turmoil that this creates. Considering all that, why then should gas cost about half as much as bottled water? One reason is perverse government subsidies that promote things we are actually trying to discourage, such as fossil fuel consumption. Last year, Ottawa shovelled $5.9 billion of your tax dollars to the fossil-fuel industry. This is far larger than current government support for sustainable energy technologies that will no doubt become the cornerstone of our future economy. In the absence of either political will or personal restraint, we should be grateful that high gas prices might save us from ourselves. For instance, there is little doubt that governments would continue with perverse subsidies for fossil fuels, imperilling the future of the Canadian economy by hitching our wagon to the dying horse. Likewise, we would continue to endanger the future health of our planet by driving vehicles that actually get far worse mileage than the Model T did for the simple reason that gasoline happens to be cheaper than water. Artificially low gas prices have long stifled conservation efforts and alternative technologies, while fuelling a boom in vehicles so grotesquely inefficient that I suspect our children will someday marvel at them in a museum. SUVs are a fine example of the irrational behaviour in the waning days of cheap oil. The only reason such gas-guzzlers are even legal is that technically they are considered farm implements. Rather than investing in innovative technologies that would produce more efficient cars, automakers have invested in highly successful lobbying efforts in order to ensure that they don't have to. The recent accord between the federal government and car makers is a good case in point. After literally years of gentle coddling from the federal government, the automakers agreed to voluntary efficiency requirements that will actually allow emissions to rise by 18 per cent between 1990 and 2010. The last time Ottawa signed such a non-binding agreement in 1982, it failed completely to improve the average fuel efficiency of Canadian vehicles because there was no legal requirement to do so. It is noteworthy that governments possess a unique power called regulation that makes such protracted and fruitless negotiations unnecessary. Not to fear, the market of Adam Smith will succeed where all else has failed. Higher fuel costs will foster much needed interest, innovation and investment in conservation and alternative technologies. Some oil companies may turn their massive resources to developing these clean-energy alternatives rather than choosing to go down with their ship. A study by Shell International found that renewable sources could supply 50 per cent of the world's energy needs by 2050. Rather than posing for photo ops with the car industry, the federal government should seize the opportunity to make some long overdue policy changes. These include shifting gasoline tax revenue to public transit, increasing green infrastructure investment in cities, and expanding investment in renewable energy the fastest growing energy sector in the world. A side benefit from this vast global shift away from oil is the small matter of the fate of the planet. Aside from a few well-known pseudo-scientists shilling on behalf of big oil, virtually the entire scientific community is united in the knowledge that climate change is real, it is happening right now and that it is very, very dangerous. Some, like our beleaguered farmers, should be insulated from ballooning fuel costs. As for the rest of us, rather than griping about how much it costs to top up your SUV, consider instead the fact that you might well have been an idiot to buy
[Biofuel] Acetone in fuel increases mileage by 15 -35%
Hello members, The information below came in one of the Emails. http://pesn.com/2005/03/ 17/6900069_Acetone/ Acetone In Fuel Said to Increase Mileage 15-35% Readily-available chemical added to gas tank in small proportion improves the fuel's ability to vaporize completely by eliminating the surface tension that causes some particulates to note fully vaporize. by Louis LaPointe Adapted by Sterling D. Allan with LaPoint's permission for Pure Energy Systems News Acetone (CH3COCH3), also called dimethylketone or propanone, is a product that can be purchased inexpensively in most locations around the world, such as in the common hardware store. Added to the fuel tank in tiny amounts, it aids in the vaporization of the gasoline or diesel, increasing fuel efficiency, engine longevity, and performance -- as well as reducing hydrocarbon emissions How Much to Use Add in tiny amounts from about one part per 5000 to one part per 500, depending on the vehicle -- just a few ounces per ten gallons of gas than demand . I have never seen a problem with acetone, and I have used ACETONE in gasoline and diesel fuel and in jet fuel (JP-4) for 50 years. See also Acetone as a Fuel Additive (index at PESWiki) Fuel The qty of acetone to be mixed with petrol works out 2cc to 20 cc per 10 litres of petrol. The PESWiki link mentioned does not give any guidance about the mixing ratio. I am about to try this on our family car . Acetone is available in the local chemicals market in 2 qualities-- commercial quality at the lower price equivalent of 2 U.S.dollars a litre and the one for laboratory use at 6 dollars a litre. Could any of the members of this forum tell me the difference between commercial quality and laboratory quality acetone? Does the ratio mentioned above for mixing with gasoline apply to commercial or lab quality acetone? Anybody else had the same positive result ? Regards, D.V.Subramanian. Chennai, India . - Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] Isopropyl questions and a few other questions
Hi everyone, Iâm done building my processor and gathering the last odds and ends before I go oil free. A lot of thanks to everyone for all the helpful email Iâve gotten from this list over time. Anyways Iâm having trouble locating 100% isopropyl alcohol. The highest I was able to find was 91% at a local Walgreenâs. I donât know if thatâs pure enough to do an accurate titration and feedback on that would be great. Also I picked up some Red devil lye at $5.50 for 18 ounces. Anyone know where I can get a better deal or buy in bulk? And lastly I found a chemical company who will sell me a 55 gallon drum of methanol for $2.60 a gallon. Seems a bit expensive but does anyone know where I could get a better deal. You can get a slightly better deal but only if I were to buy 4 drums. (I donât have the room). If it will help Iâm located in a suburb of Chicago. Thanks again everyone, Theo Chadzichristos ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] Isopropyl questions and a few other questions
Hi all you fine people I need the same information for South Western Connecticut. I'm in the same situation. Thanks for your help Roy Theo Chadzichristos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, Im done building my processor and gathering the last odds and ends before I go oil free. A lot of thanks to everyone for all the helpful email Ive gotten from this list over time. Anyways Im having trouble locating 100% isopropyl alcohol. The highest I was able to find was 91% at a local Walgreens. I dont know if thats pure enough to do an accurate titration and feedback on that would be great. Also I picked up some Red devil lye at $5.50 for 18 ounces. Anyone know where I can get a better deal or buy in bulk? And lastly I found a chemical company who will sell me a 55 gallon drum of methanol for $2.60 a gallon. Seems a bit expensive but does anyone know where I could get a better deal. You can get a slightly better deal but only if I were to buy 4 drums. (I dont have the room). If it will help Im located in a suburb of Chicago. Thanks again everyone, Theo Chadzichristos ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Roy Washbish Certified Health Coach A HOME BUSINESS PRODUCTS THAT WORK PRODUCTS BUSINESS HTTP://WWW.TRIVITA.COM/11393920 - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] Alco Bio Fuel, première grande unité de production de bioéthanol en Belgique - first big bioethanol production unit in Belgium
as soon as 2007 all the Ethanol needed for Belgium to reach the european goal * http://www.econosoc.be/?rub=actualitepage=newsid=589 *Alco Bio Fuel, premire grande unit de production de biothanol en Belgique* Le 06.04.2005 09:43 - 29 hits Leader en vente dthanol en Europe, le groupe Alcogroup, via Alcofinance s.a., vient de crer la socit Alco Bio Fuel. Alcofinance dtient 51% des parts du capital, les 49 autres tant dtenus par Vandema/Vanden Avenne Izegem (29% des parts) et Aveve/Wal.Agri (20% des parts), deux entreprises prsentes sur le march du grain. Objectif ? Construire une usine capable de couvrir lensemble des besoins de biothanol du march belge et permettre ainsi la Belgique datteindre ds 2007 les objectifs communautaires fixs en 2010 pour lessence , explique Aveve dans un communiqu. Base Gand, cette premire ligne de production devrait tre oprationnelle ds 2007. A terme, Alco Bio Fuel prvoit la construction de 3 lignes de production dune capacit totale de 300 000 m3 dthanol et ce, principalement base de grain belge. Aveve prcise encore que produit partir de la distillation de biomasses vgtales, les excdents de grain existants et la reconversion des cultures de betteraves permettent des productions d'thanol largement suffisantes pour atteindre le niveau prconis dans les directives europennes . Dj utilis au Brsil et dans certains Etats des Etats-Unis, lthanol peut s'utiliser soit en mlange direct avec l'essence, soit via l'ETBE, (Ethyltertiobutylether), un oxygn qui augmente aussi le degr d'octane. Techniquement, aucune modification des voitures n'est ncessaire ce stade de mlange. Autre avantage, lutilisation dthanol dans lessence permet une rduction non ngligeable des missions de CO2 (voir ABN 64 et 65). La Commission europenne a dailleurs promulgu une directive demandant aux Etats membres de mettre en place des programmes de biocarburants avec comme objectif d'atteindre 2% en 2005 et 5, 75% en 2010. De sources bien informes, trois autres units de production (thanol et biodiesel) sont en projet en Flandre et en Wallonie. Leur concrtisation dpend des ngociations actuelles sur la dfiscalisation des biocarburants, lesquelles butent sur l'obligation d'tre sans effet sur le budget fdral. Plus dinfos : Aveve Contact: Charles-Albert Peers, Senior Partner ALCOGROUP et Prsident ALCOFINANCE s.a. Boulevard du Souverain 100 1170- Bruxelles Tl. : 00 32 (0)2 663 38 47 - *Source :* http://www.alterbusinessnews.be ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] Gas Electric Vehicle Symposium in Monaco
http://www.clean-auto.com/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=559 Monaco - Monday 4th April 2005 EVS 21 - CFBP and the WLPGA present Autogas Hybrid Electric Vehicle Exhibition Other thematics : Symposium: http://www.clean-auto.com/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=558 General information : http://www.clean-auto.com/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=566 On the occasion of the 21st Worldwide Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Symposium in Monaco, the French Propane and Butane Federation (CFBP) and the World LP Gas Association (WLPGA) will showcase a new prototype hybrid electric passenger vehicle engineered to run on clean Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Autogas). RM Gaz in close collaboration with the CFBP and the French Petroleum Institute (IFP) took a major step in improving the environmental performance of HEVs with the introduction of the Toyota Prius II hybrid operating on Autogas. The revolutionary vehicle delivers the same fuel economy and dependability associated with standard electric hybrid technology - plus the added advantages of utilizing an environmentally-friendly alternative fuel. Autogas has long delivered emissions advantages over conventional petrol and diesel fuels. The worlds most widely used alternative fuel has undergone rigorous scientific testing, with test results yielding 50% less carbon monoxide, 40% less hydrocarbons, 35% less nitrogen oxides (NOx) and 50% less ozone forming potential compared to petrol. When it comes to limiting greenhouse gases, the Toyota Prius Autogas prototype emits only 92 g/km2 of CO2 from the tailpipe, or 11.5% less than the petrol version. In addition to its environmental strengths, Autogas delivers a number of economic advantages to motorists. Due to its environmentally-friendly characteristics, autogas enjoys fuel excise tax exemptions that can make the final pump price far lower than petrol in many countries. In the hybrid format, only half volume of fuel will be needed to travel the same distance as a conventional vehicle - further leveraging the price discounts and delivering major cost savings to motorists who choose the exciting new autogas hybrid vehicle. Official Web sites : www.worldlpgas.com On the Web : EVS21 Monaco exhibition. The exhibition will take place in the Grimaldi Forums Espace Ravel, a 4,000 m area at the heart of the Conference Centre, looking out onto the Mediterranean Sea... In addition to Symposium delegates, numerous international city, community and corporate representatives will be present to view the latest models on show, which will also create a real business to business meeting. ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] NRW (Germany, EU) State Initiative on Future Energies
NRW State Initiative on Future Energies Ministry of Transport, Energy and Spatial Planing Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (Europa) [1]http://www.energieland.nrw.de/ Documents to download in English about Biomass i.e and several other , Biomass * [2]Biogas plant using the IMC process + IE: 1/1998 + IE: 2/1998 + [3]IE: 3/2001 * [4]Integrated energy supply using biomass + IE: 2/1999 + [5]IE: 3/2001 * [6]Producing biological fuels + [7]IE: 1/2000 * [8]Energy-saving vegetable oil production * [9]Region-Oil - putting the sun in your tank * [10]Phased reforming of biogenic residues frantz References 1. http://www.energieland.nrw.de/ 2. file://localhost/service/brosch_down/KeynoteProjects.pdf 3. file://localhost/service/i_u_e/download/Iue_2001-3.pdf 4. file://localhost/service/brosch_down/KeynoteProjects.pdf 5. file://localhost/service/i_u_e/download/Iue_2001-3.pdf 6. file://localhost/service/brosch_down/KeynoteProjects.pdf 7. file://localhost/service/i_u_e/download/Iue_2000-1.pdf 8. file://localhost/service/brosch_down/KeynoteProjects.pdf 9. file://localhost/service/brosch_down/KeynoteProjects.pdf 10. file://localhost/service/brosch_down/KeynoteProjects.pdf ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] Engine Warrantys
Does anyone happen to know if using biodiesel will void your engine warranty? Specifically dodge or mercedes. Thanks Chuck ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] converting shortening to bio-diesel
I have been lurking at this group for a couple of weeks as I discover the process of WVO conversion to bio-diesel. Just today I chose to contact a few local sources, the first to respond replied with a message that he uses shortening (I assume vegetable source) for his potato chip wagon. Can shortening be used for this purpose? Is it more complicated than other sources? Try the list archives, try searching for shortening or hydrogenated. For hydrogenated you get this list of finds: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/?keywords=Hydrogenatedtime=all; usertime=2002-12-31 Which includes this message from Todd: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/BIOFUEL/27908/ Date: 2003-09-04 From: Appal Energy Subject: Re: [biofuel] Question about types of oils/hydrogenation Click here for more on this subject 1) Hydrogenated soybean oil is essentially vegetable shortening, which can be converted into biodiesel as easily as anything else. The resulting product should actually have a slightly higher energy content than some other oil feedstocks as it is a more saturated carbon chain (fewer carbon double bonds). So the answer is Yes. 2) SOP. Heat to 120*F, filter and use. There will undoubtedly be some water in what you get. Be sure to let the heated oil settle suffiently before pumping off the top. You may have a considerable amount of oil soaked solids after filtering. Something along the lines of a cheese or cider press will remove most of the oil prior to disposal of the solids. Todd Swearingen Plenty more information to be found there. There's a photo of some shortening biodiesel here, immediately after processing: http://journeytoforever.org/shorteningbd.jpg Anyway, don't start with WVO of any kind, start here: Where do I start? http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make.html#start Best wishes Keith Thank you for any help Wes ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] Isopropyl questions and a few other questions
Hello Theo, I ordered 100% isopropyl from my pharmacist, $28 retail for a gallon. I get my chemicals from a company called Univar. This is an international company with many branches in the US. I do not know if they will deal with an individual since I make my purchases through the City of Eufaula. I get lye in a 50 lb. bag for $0.37 per pound. Good luck, Bill Clark - Original Message - From: Theo Chadzichristos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 9:58 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Isopropyl questions and a few other questions Hi everyone, I'm done building my processor and gathering the last odds and ends before I go oil free. A lot of thanks to everyone for all the helpful email I've gotten from this list over time. Anyways I'm having trouble locating 100% isopropyl alcohol. The highest I was able to find was 91% at a local Walgreen's. I don't know if that's pure enough to do an accurate titration and feedback on that would be great. Also I picked up some Red devil lye at $5.50 for 18 ounces. Anyone know where I can get a better deal or buy in bulk? And lastly I found a chemical company who will sell me a 55 gallon drum of methanol for $2.60 a gallon. Seems a bit expensive but does anyone know where I could get a better deal. You can get a slightly better deal but only if I were to buy 4 drums. (I don't have the room). If it will help I'm located in a suburb of Chicago. Thanks again everyone, Theo Chadzichristos ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: [Biofuel] Engine Warrantys
Hello Chuck. About Mercedes I know that it surely will. I also know that you most likely won«t have to have warranty claims because of biodiesel. The essence of MB:s biodiesel policy is that the plastic, rubber seals and hoses of the fuel system may be affected by biodiesel. This goes for all passenger car models. They«re saying that the rubber parts are not made from viton, which they should be. But if they are made from nitrile, you may expect small problems, if any. Jan Warnqvist AGERATEC AB [EMAIL PROTECTED] + 46 554 201 89 +46 70 499 38 45 - Original Message - From: Chuck Elsholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 3:08 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Engine Warrantys Does anyone happen to know if using biodiesel will void your engine warranty? Specifically dodge or mercedes. Thanks Chuck ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] The Next Oil War?
12/4/05 Edward Cody's China Builds A Smaller, Stronger Military http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45056-2005Apr11.html in today's WP delivers an important piece of the progressive national security argument. China, driven by its rising internal demand for oil supplies, now looks at Taiwan not only as an nationalist issue, but as as a strategic necessity. Effective possession of Taiwan would help secure 80 percent of Chinese oil supply routes. Taiwan would also secure the deep-water Pacific ports needed to ensure a reliable nuclear deterrent against the United States. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/the_next_oil_war.php?dateid=20050414 TomPaine.com - The Next Oil War? The Next Oil War? Patrick Doherty April 12, 2005 Edward Cody's China Builds A Smaller, Stronger Military in today's WP delivers an important piece of the progressive national security argument. China, driven by its rising internal demand for oil supplies, now looks at Taiwan not only as an nationalist issue, but as as a strategic necessity. Effective possession of Taiwan would help secure 80 percent of Chinese oil supply routes. Taiwan would also secure the deep-water Pacific ports needed to ensure a reliable nuclear deterrent against the United States. Cody writes: But the expansion of China's interests abroad, particularly energy needs, has also broadened the military's mission in recent years. Increasingly, according to foreign specialists and Chinese commentators, China's navy and air force have set out to project power in the South China Sea, where several islands are under dispute and vital oil supplies pass through, and in the East China Sea, where China and Japan are at loggerheads over mineral rights and several contested islands. China has acquired signals-monitoring facilities on Burma's Coco Islands and, according to U.S. reports, at a port it is building in cooperation with Pakistan near the Iranian border at Gwadar, which looks out over tankers exiting the Persian Gulf. According to a report prepared for Rumsfeld's office by Booz Allen Hamilton, the consulting firm, China has developed a string of pearls strategy, seeking military-related agreements with Bangladesh, Cambodia and Thailand in addition to those with Burma and Pakistan. Against this background, unifying Taiwan with the mainland has become more than just a nationalist goal. The 13,500-square-mile territory has also become a platform that China needs to protect southern sea lanes, through which pass 80 percent of its imported oil and tons of other imported raw materials. It could serve as a base for Chinese submarines to have unfettered access to the deep Pacific, according to Tsai, Taiwan's deputy defense minister. Taiwan for them now is a strategic must and no longer just a sacred mission, Lin said. Yesterday in TomPaine.com, Michael Klare explained how the Bush administration is mirror-imaging the Chinese string of pearls strategy. Our redeployment away from the heavy bases of Western Europe and Korea and toward forward operating locations in Southeast Asia, Central Asia and Africa are designed to secure oil assets. http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0408-32.htm For progressives, this reiterates the folly of reliance on a fossil-fuel economy, particularly oil. America currently consumes 25 percent of the global oil supply, and China is second and closing in. Rising demand inevitably pits the United States against the Chinese. What is the alternative? A progressive grand strategy would first end our reliance on oil-altogether. Between the security issues, global warming and the transfer of funds to Islamic extremists, oil is a losing proposition. The Rocky Mountain Institute has shown how to get off oil completely in 25 years, so it is more than possible. Then we align our national security strategy to deal with a world ridding itself of energy competition. It's pretty simple and pragmatic. --Patrick Doherty ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] Power, Pressure And News
Power, Pressure And News Laura Donnelly April 13, 2005 If you've been wondering who and what influences the news that ends up on your doorstep and your computer screen, FAIR's (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) annual report http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2486 should be required reading. Actually, it should be required for all of us. Consider this promo quote from a PR firm included in the report: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2486 We can get five reporters a month to do news stories about your product. If you want to be interviewed by 10 to 20 reporters per month, we can arrange that, too. . . . Media Relations, Inc. has placed tens of thousands of news stories on behalf of more than 1,000 clients. The report includes sections on government interests' influence on the news (like the Abu Ghraib story being held two weeks before publication at Pentagon request). It also describes how industry bigshots control what makes it onto the page (such as a Bloomberg News report http://www.bloomberg.com/index.html?Intro=intro3 that was purged from the website and replaced with a more sanitized version at the request of a financial industry leader). And then there's the issue of prominent experts lending their names to ghost-written op-ed columns-often placed by PR firms and industry. (Media critic Danny Schechter wrote about this phenomenon for TomPaine.com recently.) http://www.tompaine.com/articles/fighting_for_the_opedisphere.php?date id=20050413 Though it's clearly preaching to the choir to tell readers of TomPaine.com that we need to think critically about mainstream news, it's still worth your time to read the report. And then tell a friend. --Laura Donnelly ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] 'Changing World Technologies' Plan to Turn Garbage into Oil
almer9apr05.htm Comments on 'Changing World Technologies' Plan to Turn Garbage into Oil PAUL PALMER, Ph.D., CHEMIST / Getting To Zero Waste 9apr2005 Comments on 'Changing World Technologies' Plan to Turn Garbage into Oil PAUL PALMER, Ph.D., CHEMIST / Getting To Zero Waste 9apr2005 http://www.gettingtozerowaste.com Paul Palmer, Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, Yale 1973* [More on Changing World Technologies] http://tinyurl.com/4pbl2 Q Mr. Palmer: Is there anything specific that you know to be inaccurate or misleading about our story on turkey fuel? -- Dan Goodgame, managing editor, Fortune Small Business (FSB) A Dan: First of all, when I discuss these bogus claims I am not restricting myself to your article alone. These snake oil salesmen have been peddling their little story thru a number of media starting with Discover magazine in May 2003. I have been pointing out to anyone who will listen how fraudulent it all is ever since then. This deception starts with the ignorance of the American public who have bought the convenient story that there is such a thing as garbage. In fact there are ten million different kinds of products that become excess. They are all radically different. But the public chooses to believe that it can all be summed under the rubric of garbage and once you do that, all those radically different inputs have now suddenly become the same thing. Then we are fed the delusion that all we need to do is get rid of it. It doesn't really matter how. We have had serious suggestions that we can fill up the Grand Canyon with it, cause it to disappear in molten salts, in plasma fusion devices and in garbage treatment plants called Materials Recovery Facilities. Or put it all in rocket ships headed for outer space. All of these proposals that got into trials share some important characteristics. They make huge profits for the garbage industry and the public pays up front for all the costs. Now along comes one more scheme for playing on the gullibility of a public that is so dumb it actually believes that a complex technological society, such as ours, can rip and strip the earth of all its resources, use them transiently, then somehow destroy them all, and still continue to leave a thriving planet for future generations. As though the earth is some kind of a magic lamp we can rub and the genie will continue to bestow upon us any gift we request. This concept is idiotic, and any company that seeks to effectuate the getting rid of part of this scheme is selling a bill of goods leading to planetary suicide. But this may not be sufficiently specific to your article to satisfy you. I will back up to the beginning and pick apart the very heading of the article that began this all in Discover. It began with the heading Anything into Oil and proceeded in the article to flesh this out so: The process is designed to handle almost any waste product imaginable, including turkey offal, tires, plastic bottles, harbor-dredged muck, old computers, municipal garbage, cornstalks, paper-pulp effluent, infectious medical waste, oil-refinery residues, even biological weapons such as anthrax spores. Now in your article, you, or the claimants, hoping no doubt to have a prayer of passing the giggle test, have backed off a bit by only saying this much: The company says its process works on tires, various hazardous wastes, and plastic as well as heavy metals. Most emphatically none of this can pass the giggle test but let me ask you, do you understand what is being said here? You are saying that this company has a process which can turn steel into oil (just to select one of the more obvious idiocies). Do you know that steel is almost a pure element, namely iron, which no chemical process can convert to carbon? Are you familiar with the alchemist's search for transmutation in which they tried to turn base metals into gold? At least they didn't turn base metals into carbon and hydrogen, which is pretty much what oil is. This conversion just happens to contravene the laws of physics as presently understood. Is that a good enough indictment of the frauds being perpetrated by these PR mavens? Now let's look a little further, to the subheading Technological savvy could turn 600 million tons of turkey guts and other waste into 4 billion barrels of light Texas crude each year . Apply a bit of that skepticism that journalism once relied on. How many pounds is 600 million tons. Multiply 600,000,000 by 2000 to get 1200 billion pounds. Now lets look at the oil. Depending on your definition of barrel, one of them weighs 300 to 400 pounds. So multiply 4 billion by 300 and you get 1200 billion pounds. What a strange coincidence! These phoneys say they can turn every pound of mixed water, dirt, rocks, paper, steel, acetone, tars, polyethylene, concrete (and oh, yes, turkey scraps too) into one pound of - are you ready for this - not just oil, not just a grease
[Biofuel] Report: California Energy Crisis II
t r u t h o u t - Report: California Energy Crisis II Energy Giants Banking on Environmental Disaster By Kelpie Wilson and Marc Ash t r u t h o u t | Report Wednesday 13 April 2005 It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest. -- Al Capone California, March 2001: rolling blackouts sweep through major cities, leaving entire communities without power. The explanation offered by private energy generators was simple: There is a crisis, and we don't have enough power to meet the demand. Three years, hundreds of investigations, and billions of taxpayer dollars later, a web of deceit, corruption and illicit profit are well documented and part of the public record. California State officials now acknowledge that power companies withheld more than enough power to have averted the blackouts, and they did it to drive up prices and profits. In fact, CBS News reported, federal investigators have power plant control room audio tapes of traders from Williams Energy telling plant operators to turn off the juice. Lesson learned? Apparently not. The California Public Utilities Commission, charged with protecting California ratepayers and implementing a sensible state energy plan, is about to deliver ratepayers into the hands of oil companies wanting to hook the state into a dependency on expensive, imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) that comes at the end of a long supply chain over which Californians have no control. This wild and unspoiled Baja ecosystem is the proposed site for the new Sempra LNG terminal. Energy companies have been lining up to push for LNG re-gasification terminals to supply California's huge energy market. But so far, environmental concerns have slowed the siting of these terminals in the state. And so the attention has turned to nearby Baja California, Mexico, where a free-for-all has ensued, leading to the emergence of Sempra Energy as the first to secure a site: Costa Azul, a few miles north of Ensenada. Sempra wants to locate a sprawling industrial facility on this beautiful bit of unspoiled coastline that is one of the last remaining unbroken stretches of coastal sage scrub in the Californias. This is a marine treasure with a world-class surfing wave, a fishing community and a tourism economy. LNG is natural gas, chilled at the wellhead to minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit, loaded into expensive tankers the size of aircraft carriers, and shipped around the world. At the destination, the liquid is re-gasified by warming it, and then it is siphoned off into pipelines. All of this consumes considerable amounts of energy, reducing the efficiency of the gas as an energy source. At Costa Azul, Sempra will use seawater to warm the gas, which will chill the seawater by 20 degrees or so, with devastating consequences for marine life and the resident fishing community. Reliance on LNG has global environmental and human rights impacts. Most of the natural gas supply available to the West Coast will be extracted from fragile environments inhabited by defenseless indigenous people. Gas from Peru comes from deep in the Amazon, where environmentally reckless extraction is killing off tribes who have only just been contacted by the outside world. Another major source of LNG would be Sakhalin Island, off the coast of the Russian Far East, impacting indigenous people, rare gray whales and hundreds of threatened marine species. Sempra Energy held a groundbreaking ceremony at the Costa Azul site on March 30th, but two days later, the Baja California state legislature launched an investigation into the project. There hasn't been transparency from the beginning to the end, said legislator Guillermo Aldrete. We want to know the economic and environmental impacts - both negative and positive. Aldrete was particularly concerned about Sempra's involvement in the California power crisis of 2000-2001. Sempra agreed to pay $7.2 million in 2003 to settle accusations by federal regulators that it had engaged in market manipulation, and it is a defendant in a lawsuit seeking further damages for its gaming of the gas supply. We can't trust Sempra Energy if they have these problems in California, Aldrete said. Inexplicably, it is the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) that is facilitating the Costa Azul project and clearing the way for LNG as a major new energy source for the state. Last September, CPUC approved Sempra's request to terminate contracts with domestic natural gas suppliers. This opened a hole in the state's natural gas supplies that Sempra and Chevron-Texaco want to fill with more expensive, more polluting, more dangerous and less secure LNG. In the case of Sempra Energy, the company will ship the LNG to its Costa Azul terminal and sell it to a subsidiary called Sempra Trading, which will in turn sell it to
[Biofuel] US Takes the Lead in Trashing Planet
Published on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 by the Boston Globe US Takes the Lead in Trashing Planet by Derrick Z. Jackson For more than four years, President Bush has told us he needs to see the ''sound science on global warming before joining the rest of the world in combating it. In June 2001, he brushed off criticism of his pullout from the Kyoto Protocol, saying: ''It was not based upon science. The stated mandates in the Kyoto treaty would affect our economy in a negative way. A year later, Bush's own Environmental Protection Agency put out a report that the burning of fossil fuels in the human activities of industry and automobiles are huge contributors to the greenhouse effect. He publicly trashed the report, embarrassing then-EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman, saying, ''I read the report put out by the bureaucracy. Now comes a new study, by a bureaucracy representing just about the whole planet. It is the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, commissioned by the United Nations in 2000 at a cost of $24 million and compiled by 1,360 experts from 95 countries. It is the latest in dire reports as to how we are doing the planet in and, implicitly, how the United States puts its interests and pollution over the welfare of the rest of the planet. The report said human beings, whose numbers have doubled to 6 billion, have changed the world's ecosystems more in the last 50 years than in any other period in our pursuit of food, fuel, water, and wood products. More land was converted to agriculture since World War II than in the 18th and 19th centuries combined. Those conversions, aggravated by the use of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers, have led to 10 to 30 percent of mammal, bird, and amphibian species facing the threat of extinction. Highlights of what we have already lost in the last 50 years include: 20 percent of the world's coral reefs, with another 20 percent seriously degraded, and 35 percent of the world's mangroves. The dilemma is that many of the changes in agricultural, fishing, and industrial technology have had incredible benefits for human beings, including the reduction of hunger and poverty. But in the process, 60 percent of the services the world's ecosystems provide, from basic food to disease management to aesthetic enjoyment, have been degraded. One example that is particularly painful in New England and Atlantic Canada is the collapse of fishing stocks. ''Any progress achieved in addressing the goals of poverty and hunger eradication, improved health, and environmental protection is unlikely to be sustained if most of the ecosystem services on which humanity relies continue to be degraded, the study said. The study offered several scenarios of how humans can halt the degrading of the planet. The most obvious strategies involve a global economy where the sharing of education, skills, technology, and resources leads to a reduction in poverty and pressures on local environments. The worst possible scenario is one called ''Order from Strength, which results in ''a regionalized and fragmented world, concerned with security and protection, emphasizing primarily regional markets, paying little attention to public goods, and taking a reactive approach to ecosystem problems. That precisely describes the United States. We consume a quarter of the world's energy, are the world's leading contributor to the greenhouse gases of global warming, and take advantage of agriculture in all parts of the world so we can have fresh peaches, peppers, and berries 365 days a year if we wish. Not surprisingly, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment has been out for two weeks and there has not been a peep out of the administration on it -- the same administration that needed no sound science on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The assessment was cochaired by the World Bank's chief scientist, Robert Watson. Watson was formerly NASA's chief environmental scientist and environmental adviser in the Clinton administration. Watson said two weeks ago that the study reinforces his belief that climate change ''may become the most dominant threat to ecological systems over the next hundred years. The World Bank has been in the news for other reasons, being so important to Bush that he had the right-wing defense hawk Paul Wolfowitz installed as president. It will be interesting, once Wolfowitz -- hardly known for his caring about birds, insects, and Iraqi civilians -- is fully in power, how much more Watson and the World Bank will speak out about how we are doing ourselves in. Watson speaks for 1,360 experts from 95 countries. It's only a matter of time before we hear Wolfowitz saying, ''I read the report put out by the bureaucracy. © 2005 Boston Globe ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever:
[Biofuel] Concerns Raised About 1997 U.S. Mad Cow Tests
Published on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/04/12/usbse050412.html Concerns Raised About 1997 U.S. Mad Cow Tests OTTAWA -- The United States did not properly analyze two suspected cases of mad cow disease in 1997, years before it showed up in Canada and devastated this country's beef industry, a CBC News investigation suggests. Dr. Masuo Doi, the U.S. Department of Agriculture veterinarian in charge of investigating one of the 1997 cases, says he's haunted by fears that the right tests were not done and that his own department did not properly investigate whether the cow had BSE. Doi is now retired and speaking for the first time about his concerns. I don't want to carry on off to my retirement, he told CBC's Investigative Unit. I want to hand it over to someone to continue, to find out. I think it's very, very important... How many did we miss? Doi's concerns are echoed by Dr. Karl Langheindrich, the chief scientist at a U.S. Department of Agriculture lab in Athens, Ga., that ran some of the early tests on the cow. The sample given to the lab did not contain parts of the animal's brain critical for an accurate diagnosis, he said. Langheindrich told CBC News that the department will never be able to say for sure what was wrong with the cow, though at the time it publicly ruled out bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Based on the clinical symptoms and the description given by the veterinarian, you can verify, yes, this animal had CNS, central nervous system disease, but you can't specify it in your findings further than that, he said. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is refusing to talk about the cases, saying the documents provided to CBC speak for themselves. 1997 video from New York shows stricken cow The scientists' comments raise new questions about how the U.S. industry has been able to essentially escape BSE when Canada's much smaller industry, observing almost identical safety and testing practices, has had four cases in the past two years. Part of the answer could be in a slaughterhouse in Oriskany Falls, N.Y., which eight years ago may have become the home of the first American case of mad cow. Bobby Godfrey, who worked at the plant, remembers a cow that arrived one day in May 1997. I thought it was a mad dog, to tell you the truth, he told CBC. Didn't know what the hell it was. Never seen a cow act like that in all the cows I saw go through there. There was definitely something wrong with it. The suspect cow was recorded on USDA videotape, which has been obtained by CBC News. It shows the animal trembling, hunching its back and charging plant workers. Me and my vet, including our inspector, they thought [the cow] was quite different, Doi told CBC. They thought it was the BSE. Key areas of brain not tested: documents Documents obtained by CBC News show that the U.S. government was preparing for the worst. Initial signs pointed to its first case of mad cow disease, which would have immediate impacts on U.S. beef exports to countries around the world. But further tests on the animal came back negative, the USDA later reported. The final conclusion from an independent university lab: The cow had a rare brain disorder never reported in that breed of cattle either before or since - not the dreaded bovine spongiform encephalopathy. CBC News has now learned that key areas of the brain where signs of BSE would be most noticeable were never tested. The most important samples somehow went missing. That information was contained in a USDA lab report that was left out of the documents officially released by the department. It proves that the scientist in charge of the case knew his investigation was limited because of the missing brain tissue. Second suspected case surfaces at same plant With questions about the first cow still lingering, a second American cow showed up at the same plant three months later with suspicious symptoms. Videotape of that animal shows its head was bobbing and it was unable to rise to its feet, setting off warning bells for mad cow disease. The second cow's brain was also sent for testing. Officials were later told verbally that the samples had tested negative for BSE. Doi made repeated requests for documentary proof of the negative tests. To this day, he has seen nothing. How many are buried? he wonders of other possible cases of BSE in the United States. Can you really trust our inspection [system]? For weeks, the USDA told CBC that it had no records for the second cow suspected of having BSE in 1997. Then just a few days ago, it suddenly produced documents that it says proves that a cow was tested and that the tests were negative for mad cow disease. But the documents also prove, once again, that there were problems with the testing. This time, so much brain tissue was missing that it
Re: [Biofuel] Engine Warrantys
Also note that Warranty coverage is a very local issue (determined by state here in the US). In California an end user cannot do anything that voids their warranty. The waranty covers the materials and workmanship. I.e. quality of the materials and how well it was put together. So if there is a problem with your engine (or any device), you are covered in California unless there is evidence that you are at fault. Basically the manufacturer is guilty until proven innocent. So the question is not does biodiesel void your warranty but does the manufacturer claim that biodiesel is appropriate for your engine at this point as far as I know none of the engine manufacturers recommend B100 (I'd love to see evidence to the contrary!). However a close friend of mine purchased an extended warranty that covered B100 in a VW Jetta from the Berkeley. CA Volkswagen dealership it was money in the bank for them. He put many miles on it for over a year and did nothing other than scheduled maintenance. He eventually sold it because he needed something bigger. kk Jan Warnqvist wrote: Hello Chuck. About Mercedes I know that it surely will. I also know that you most likely won«t have to have warranty claims because of biodiesel. The essence of MB:s biodiesel policy is that the plastic, rubber seals and hoses of the fuel system may be affected by biodiesel. This goes for all passenger car models. They«re saying that the rubber parts are not made from viton, which they should be. But if they are made from nitrile, you may expect small problems, if any. Jan Warnqvist AGERATEC AB [EMAIL PROTECTED] + 46 554 201 89 +46 70 499 38 45 - Original Message - From: Chuck Elsholz [2][EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [3][EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 3:08 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Engine Warrantys Does anyone happen to know if using biodiesel will void your engine warranty? Specifically dodge or mercedes. Thanks Chuck ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] [5]http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: [6]http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): [7]http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] [9]http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: [10]http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): [11]http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ -- Kenneth Kron President Bay Area Biofuel [12]http://www.bayareabiofuel.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 415-867-8067 What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it! Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. [14]Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. References 1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 4. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel 6. http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 7. http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ 8. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 9. http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel 10. http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html 11. http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ 12. http://www.bayareabiofuel.com/ 13. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 14. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
[Biofuel] Diesel moped car...2 things!
First. I am wondering if anyone has any first hand experience of moped cars such as these: http://www.importinvest.se/bilmodeller.htm http://www.grecav.it/en/eke.php http://www.masterinvest.se/jdm/ If so, I would appreciate any comments as to their viability. These small vehicles are classed as 'European mopeds' no driving licence is required (you must be 15) and they are not supposed to go faster than 50 kmh (ideal for city living maybe as that is the legal limit in most built up places these days, though I am told that in London the average vehicular speed is 12 kmh)! Quite a few of these small cars are on the road in Sweden today mostly being run by folks who have lost their licence through drunk driving or inappropriate traffic behaviour or by people who are either frugal or do actually care about our environment. I am concerned also that older people who are considered a risk behind the wheel for medical reasons are tempted to operate these small vehicles and indeed those that live in the country are obliged to get into town somehow once in a while and for whatever reason and when they are on the road they can be a bit of a surprise, a hazard even, when approaching them from the rear at speed in a normal modern car. The manufacturers claim a consumption of 3.5 dl per 10 km's or 3.5 l per 100 km's. When I looked at the math this looked to be very close to what an electrical vehicle costs to charge per km. By comparison then; + for an electric car would be speed and acceleration (maybe safety if the electric car had a proper body) - would be lack of range, cost of purchase. + for the diesel moped car would be, cheapish to buy, unlimited range (maybe even bio diesel compatible). - would be that it is slow (however I know ordinary 2 wheel mopeds that do 70 kmh plus with only one cylinder)! And it is small and probably dangerous...Of course even a Volvo doesn't win against a Scania or a Peterbuilt..(or even a Cadillac...shhsss). 2nd! If a modern 4 cyl diesel engine can do 10km on 6 dl diesel at mixed speeds of up to 120 kmh how come a 2 cyl diesel only gets 3.5 dl for the same distance at a lot less than half that speed? It's all weight I suppose - or? ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Fwd: [Biofuel] End of cheap oil is a blessing
Why do so many so called environmentalist label SUV's and the people who drive them as evil in some way? My full size diesel Chevy 4x4 trucks average 20 and 24 mpg. I use bio diesel and pay more for it. Why To protect the environment. I am all for MANDATORY bio fuel, as well as increased fuel efficiency. But not at the cost of safety! I know my family is much safer in my 3/4 ton trucks, than my Geo Metro! Because I see the accidents first hand, frequently. I can safely say THE BIG VEHICLE ALWAYS WINS! When I talk to other Truck and SUV owners about Bio diesel, they at times blow me off as one of those Environmental Wackos. You know; the ones who hate SUV's and their owners. I have experienced the wackos wrath myself. So I can understand the feelings. Lets quit confirming the belief that Wacko, Liberal, Environmentalists want to take away the safety and independence that an SUV represents to their owners. THERE ARE OPTIONS Each of the big three auto makers are presently making Bio Fuel vehicles! Yes FULL SIZE TRUCKS, etc. that will run on gas, 100% alcohol or any combination. Check out the US dept of energy site. http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/index.html See cut and paste example below! Model: Suburban Manufacturer: General Motors - Chevrolet City MPG: 10 Highway MPG: 13 Emission Certification: ULEV Fuel Configuration: Ethanol Incremental Cost: $ 0 Transmission: 4-speed automatic Engine: Vortec 5300 5.3 L Dealer Phone: 1-888-GM-AFT-4U Dealer URL: http://www.gm.com/automotive/vehicle_shopping/dealer_locator/ Description: This full sized flexible fuel SUV can be fueled with E85 (ethanol), regular gasoline, or any combination of the two fuels. The Suburban is available a 2x2 and 4x4 models. Emissions certification: Federal Tier 2 Bin 10, California ULEV. We need all the people we can get on our side! How about instead of telling them how evil they are and making rude gestures at them from a car full of environmental stickers, we encourage them to join the cause! Make them aware the technology is available, and we need to push for mandatory Bio fuels. The government forced UN-Leaded fuel on us in the 70's. Why not bio fuels NOW! Jay --- MH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:51:47 -0500 From: MH [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Biofuel] End of cheap oil is a blessing End of cheap oil is a blessing MITCHELL ANDERSON Apr. 13, 2005 Canada http://www.thestar.com Enraged about the high price of gas? A trip to the corner store might provide a much-needed reality check to the indignation over excessive fuel costs. Have a quick look at what you can buy for a dollar a litre. Milk? Nope. Bottled water? Not likely. Roofing tar? No way. For all the shrill outrage about rising prices, gas remains by far the most outrageously underpriced commodity in the world. Consider the long journey that a litre of gas makes from faraway oil fields to your local filling station. Oil deposits must first be found often on the other side of the world or on the bottom of the ocean. After massive infrastructure is developed, oil is extracted, transported across the globe, refined, and trucked thousands of kilometres to where you live. Let's not forget the massive military expenditures from countries like the U.S. to secure foreign oil supplies and the political and human turmoil that this creates. Considering all that, why then should gas cost about half as much as bottled water? One reason is perverse government subsidies that promote things we are actually trying to discourage, such as fossil fuel consumption. Last year, Ottawa shovelled $5.9 billion of your tax dollars to the fossil-fuel industry. This is far larger than current government support for sustainable energy technologies that will no doubt become the cornerstone of our future economy. In the absence of either political will or personal restraint, we should be grateful that high gas prices might save us from ourselves. For instance, there is little doubt that governments would continue with perverse subsidies for fossil fuels, imperilling the future of the Canadian economy by hitching our wagon to the dying horse. Likewise, we would continue to endanger the future health of our planet by driving vehicles that actually get far worse mileage than the Model T did for the simple reason that gasoline happens to be cheaper than water. Artificially low gas prices have long stifled conservation efforts and alternative technologies, while fuelling a boom in vehicles so grotesquely inefficient that I suspect our children will someday marvel at them in a museum. SUVs are a fine example of the irrational behaviour in the waning days of cheap oil. The only reason such gas-guzzlers are
Re: [Biofuel] Diesel moped car...2 things!
First. I am wondering if anyone has any first hand experience of moped cars such as these: These are all diesels? http://www.importinvest.se/bilmodeller.htm http://www.grecav.it/en/eke.php http://www.masterinvest.se/jdm/ (And why's that guy picking his nose??? LOL!) If so, I would appreciate any comments as to their viability. These small vehicles are classed as 'European mopeds' no driving licence is required (you must be 15) and they are not supposed to go faster than 50 kmh (ideal for city living maybe as that is the legal limit in most built up places these days, though I am told that in London the average vehicular speed is 12 kmh)! Quite a few of these small cars are on the road in Sweden today mostly being run by folks who have lost their licence through drunk driving or inappropriate traffic behaviour or by people who are either frugal or do actually care about our environment. I am concerned also that older people who are considered a risk behind the wheel for medical reasons are tempted to operate these small vehicles and indeed those that live in the country are obliged to get into town somehow once in a while and for whatever reason and when they are on the road they can be a bit of a surprise, a hazard even, when approaching them from the rear at speed in a normal modern car. Maybe it's just a matter of time. As there are more of them, and other similar solutions, as surely there will be, people will get used to them and make allowances. Now you don't expect to see them, later perhaps you will expect it. There is a similar situation here, with mopeds, again a special class of them, also with easy licensing and so on, and quite slow speeds. In the rural areas a lot of people ride them, including farming grannies, and farming great-grannies too. The mopeds easy and convenient - I think they regard them as a bicycle with a motor, though they're much more sophisticated than that. Mostly the grannies don't bother with helmets, they ride along in their country farming cloth bonnets. But everyone is aware of them and gives them priority on the road. It's similar in the cities with two-wheelers (many, and lots of them slow) - at first I thought it was dangerous, as it is in other cities I've lived in, but it's not dangerous, or not particularly, car drivers seem to treat them with respect. Best wishes Keith The manufacturers claim a consumption of 3.5 dl per 10 km's or 3.5 l per 100 km's. When I looked at the math this looked to be very close to what an electrical vehicle costs to charge per km. By comparison then; + for an electric car would be speed and acceleration (maybe safety if the electric car had a proper body) - would be lack of range, cost of purchase. + for the diesel moped car would be, cheapish to buy, unlimited range (maybe even bio diesel compatible). - would be that it is slow (however I know ordinary 2 wheel mopeds that do 70 kmh plus with only one cylinder)! And it is small and probably dangerous...Of course even a Volvo doesn't win against a Scania or a Peterbuilt..(or even a Cadillac...shhsss). 2nd! If a modern 4 cyl diesel engine can do 10km on 6 dl diesel at mixed speeds of up to 120 kmh how come a 2 cyl diesel only gets 3.5 dl for the same distance at a lot less than half that speed? It's all weight I suppose - or? ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: Fwd: [Biofuel] End of cheap oil is a blessing
I thought you might get a chuckle out of this... This gasoline price sign was seen in Seymour, Conn., Tuesday, April 12, 2005. Gasoline prices have risen sharply in the last few weeks throughout the country. (AP Photo/Bob Child) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2u=/050412/480/nxj10204122245 The picture was taken about 20 minutes from my house. Mike ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
Re: Fwd: [Biofuel] End of cheap oil is a blessing
someone driving some big a$$ truck the world would be a safer place if as many people didn't drive a truck that has a bumper that lines up with the heads of the people in the cars... I see s many people drive big trucks, and they have no good reason to... 20 years ago a person was deemed crazy for wanting a suburban or other big truck... now its cool .. I was just looking on Chevys website.. their best economy truck gets 22mpg.. and the stupidest thing,... it states... Silverado 2500HD and 3500 models are not rated for fuel economy. gee i wonder why the 1500 hd model is rated at 9mpg Ray J I know my family is much safer in my 3/4 ton trucks, than my Geo Metro! Because I see the accidents first hand, frequently. I can safely say THE BIG VEHICLE ALWAYS WINS! ___ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
