Re: [PLUG] Survey: who drives a stick shift?

["Brian Vagnoni" <bvagnoni@v-system.net>]

Any alternative fuel that cannot be liquefied or turned into gas at the site of origin and sent down a pipe has to be transported(specifically rail or trucks) requiring additional energy and creating additional waist.

Hydrogen is the real solution IMHO.

Brian Vagnoni

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From: Eugene Smiley [mailto:eug+plug@esmiley.net]
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List [mailto:plug@lists.phillylinux.org]
Sent: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:40:11 -0400
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Survey: who drives a stick shift?

Edward Smola wrote:
> Ethanol fuel makes sense for brazil, which uses sugar cane and gets a
> very high return for the energy invested but most of the crops that are
> used in the us do not have that advantage. There would be no ethanol
> fuel industry in the us if it wasn't for the big government funding
> using our tax dollars. So now besides wasting our money on a fuel that
> is almost a wash energy wise, we now have to contend with grain and food
> prices increasing due to competition with the ethanol producers.

One word: Switchgrass. Output energy to Production energy ratio is 9:1. In other
words you get 9 times more energy out of it than you put into producing it.
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