Re: Car Craft Ramblings

["Todd Wallis" <cyclone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ethanol sounds good but it is more complicated than that.

Countries like China and India (with populations that make ours look paltry) 
are modernizing fast and their demands for petroleum are rapidly increasing.
When fossil fuel crude gets really scarce you would need an impossible 
amount of surface space required to grow all the corn necessary to 
accommodate the US  fuel demand much less the rest of the world.

Even if you had the surface space on the planet, planting that much of a 
single crop creates a biodiversity nightmare.

For what it is worth.

Todd Wallis


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Hevner" <scramblr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "AMC AMC" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 7:19 AM
Subject: Car Craft Ramblings


> >It's all moot in any event because ten years from now, the only cars
> > which will be of interest - even if there are still a few of us "car
> > guys" left - will be rice rockets.  V8 engines will be deemed only
> > suitable for selling to fishermen with a length of rope attached and
> > gasoline will be $10 per gallon - if it is still sold that way.
>
> I don't believe that will happen. IF Gasoline ever gets to $10 a gallon it
> will make ETHANOL the fuel of choice. It SHOULD have happened years ago. I
> used to work in a shop that specialized in Alky (Methanol) big block 
> chevys.
> The engines ran VERY clean, no carbon like gas. Hard to start when cold,
> needed to give em a squirt of gas down the injectors some times. High
> octane, we ran 13 to one or more if we could. Didn't Kalifornia have an
> "Alky for the street" program a few years back? Wonder what happened to 
> it?
>
>
> > Hmm, I wonder if my Matador Barcalounger will run on liquid hydrogen?
> Hmmm....
>
> No Hydro today,,,,, but you CAN run on alky !!!!!!!!!
> But hey,,,, that's just ME!
> Bruce Hevner