It baffles me that President Bush would rather go to Saudi Arabia twice in four months and beg the Saudi king for an oil price break than ask the American people to drive 55 miles an hour, buy more fuel- efficient cars or accept a carbon tax or gasoline tax that might actually help free us from what he called our “addiction to oil.”
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If the american people had any brains they'd be demanding the 55. But the auto industry (which makes a fortune off car crashes) has brainwashed the idiots into thinking speed is cool
> It baffles me that President Bush would rather go to Saudi Arabia > twice in four months and beg the Saudi king for an oil price break > than ask the American people to drive 55 miles an hour, buy more fuel- > efficient cars or accept a carbon tax or gasoline tax that might > actually help free us from what he called our “addiction to oil.”
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> If the american people had any brains they'd be demanding the 55. But > the auto industry (which makes a fortune off car crashes) has > brainwashed the idiots into thinking speed is cool
If Americans had a choice.. they would buy flex-fuel vehicles, fill them with emmission neutral american made biofuel (at $1 dollar a gallon), and drive at the maximum speed limits deemed safe by expert opinion.
>> It baffles me that President Bush would rather go to Saudi Arabia >> twice in four months and beg the Saudi king for an oil price break >> than ask the American people to drive 55 miles an hour, buy more fuel- >> efficient cars or accept a carbon tax or gasoline tax that might >> actually help free us from what he called our “addiction to oil.”
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>> If the american people had any brains they'd be demanding the 55. But >> the auto industry (which makes a fortune off car crashes) has >> brainwashed the idiots into thinking speed is cool
> If Americans had a choice.. they would buy flex-fuel vehicles, fill > them with emmission neutral american made biofuel (at $1 dollar a > gallon), and drive at the maximum speed limits deemed safe by expert > opinion.
> All of these options already exist.
Not where I live. Even if I owned a flex-fuel vehicle *today*, I couldn't fill it with ethanol because none of the filling stations in my locale carry ethanol.
The major problem with ethanol is that it's just not as energy-rich as gasoline. Expect about a 20% decrease in fuel economy over gasoline. It would also require major modifications to the existing oil distribution system to handle ethanol.
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> It baffles me that President Bush would rather go to Saudi Arabia > twice in four months and beg the Saudi king for an oil price break > than ask the American people to drive 55 miles an hour, buy more fuel- > efficient cars or accept a carbon tax or gasoline tax that might > actually help free us from what he called our ?addiction to oil.?
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> If the american people had any brains they'd be demanding the 55. But > the auto industry (which makes a fortune off car crashes) has > brainwashed the idiots into thinking speed is cool
It baffles me that you can't figure out how to drive 55 mph if you want to.
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> If Americans had a choice.. they would buy flex-fuel vehicles, fill > them with emmission neutral american made biofuel (at $1 dollar a > gallon), and drive at the maximum speed limits deemed safe by expert > opinion.
> All of these options already exist.
You idiot. There is no maximum safe speed limit. No matter what the limit is, we'll always have some highway crashes.
"Steven L." wrote: > The major problem with ethanol is that it's just not as energy-rich as > gasoline.
Correct.
> Expect about a 20% decrease in fuel economy over gasoline. > It would also require major modifications to the existing oil > distribution system to handle ethanol.
This is all moot if instead the feedstock is used to make butanol which is as near as dammit a direct gasoline replacement. Du Pont and Shell have been working on this and have a trial plant now in the UK.
> You idiot. There is no maximum safe speed limit. No matter what the > limit is, we'll always have some highway crashes.
As you also will at LOW speeds. People stop concentrating on their driving when they think they're safe (they're not) by driving slowly. It's a classic example of a sense of false security. You can be killed in a 30 mph crash too.
