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Thread: I'm So Sick of the Proponents of...

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    burtandnancy
    ...makeing a small adjustment to our cars so they can run on ethanol, like they do in Brazil. Well, if my car could be made to run on squeezed sugar cane, they'd have to cover the entire state of CA to get enough. Then, who would refine it? We're closing down refineries, not building them. I don't want one in my back yard, how about yours? I think the Clinton ad's piss's me off the most, damned carpetbagger...

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    RitcheyRch
    If Clinton such a proponent of Brazil than why doesnt he freaking move there.

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    3 daytona`s
    ...makeing a small adjustment to our cars so they can run on ethanol, like they do in Brazil. Well, if my car could be made to run on squeezed sugar cane, they'd have to cover the entire state of CA to get enough. Then, who would refine it? We're closing down refineries, not building them. I don't want one in my back yard, how about yours? I think the Clinton ad's piss's me off the most, damned carpetbagger...
    I watched a documentary recently about Brazil running totally on Ethanol.I`m from the Midwest there is so much corn you could not burn it all in the state of Ca.You are misinformed,sir.The oil companies don`t want ethonol,have you noticed almost all quiick shops are owned by oil companies,the show I watched documented every auto maker in the world is producing a vehicle for sale there that runs on 100% ethanol.I don`t know about you but,I want to live to the day we can say to the Saudi`s "SUCK OIL"

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    ULTRA26 # 1
    I watched a documentary recently about Brazil running totally on Ethanol.I`m from the Midwest there is so much corn you could not burn it all in the state of Ca.You are misinformed,sir.The oil companies don`t want ethonol,have you noticed almost all quiick shops are owned by oil companies,the show I watched documented every auto maker in the world is producing a vehicle for sale there that runs on 100% ethanol.I don`t know about you but,I want to live to the day we can say to the Saudi`s "SUCK OIL"
    I'll second that one

  5. #5
    burtandnancy
    My point is, you got all the corn (or sugar, whatever), but there's no pipeline between us, and you'll never see a new refinery on the left coast. As much as I'd like to run alcohol (other than in my sprinter) it ain't going to happen in my lifetime...(ps, here in CA, we've got a proposition on next weeks ballot thats trying to get us to use more/less foreign oil)

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    JAY4SPEED
    My point is, you got all the corn (or sugar, whatever), but there's no pipeline between us, and you'll never see a new refinery on the left coast. As much as I'd like to run alcohol (other than in my sprinter) it ain't going to happen in my lifetime...(ps, here in CA, we've got a proposition on next weeks ballot thats trying to get us to use more/less foreign oil)
    Thats part of the problem also, you can't move ethanol underground in pipelines. It has to be shipped in trucks which adds to the price. Its a great deal when you live near sources that can convert the ethanol like cornfields or sugar crops. But, if you live out far from the sources of ethanol, its gonna cost ya.
    Jay

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    shueman
    I watched a documentary recently about Brazil running totally on Ethanol.I`m from the Midwest there is so much corn you could not burn it all in the state of Ca.You are misinformed,sir.The oil companies don`t want ethonol,have you noticed almost all quiick shops are owned by oil companies,the show I watched documented every auto maker in the world is producing a vehicle for sale there that runs on 100% ethanol.I don`t know about you but,I want to live to the day we can say to the Saudi`s "SUCK OIL"
    I'm in for this.... Screw Exxon and Chevron.... :crossx:

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    BadKachina
    ...makeing a small adjustment to our cars so they can run on ethanol, like they do in Brazil. Well, if my car could be made to run on squeezed sugar cane, they'd have to cover the entire state of CA to get enough. Then, who would refine it? We're closing down refineries, not building them. I don't want one in my back yard, how about yours? I think the Clinton ad's piss's me off the most, damned carpetbagger...
    I'd take a refinery in my back yard if it meant I would'nt be sending my money to the middle east. It's the lessor of two evils in my book.

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    Riomouse911
    I don't know about you guys, but even here in "oil well rich" California I live a long way from the middle East and Alaska, and thats where an awful lot of our oil is shipped from. Whoever posted the tag about the oil companies not wanting anything to infringe on their monopoly is 100% right. When you're the only herion connect on the block, you're not going to share your corner.. and you'll kill the MF'er who tries to move in. A very simple analogy, but it's the same idea.
    While I am not 100% sure ethanol is the perfect solution, IMO it's tons better than funding sheiks, despot countries like Iran, crackpots like Hugo Chavez, and every other mullah focker who loves my American cash, but hates my American ass because of where I reside and who I do or don't worship. I'd rather pay an in-country company or farmer my cash than any of those other clowns anyday, even if it means paying a bit more at the pump. I say let's give it a try. If it fails, we'll still have a few years of cheap(ish) oil left to tide us over until something better can be found.
    You won't see it, however, when oil companies make up to 10 billion dollar profits in the 3rd quarter of the year. What we will see, again IMO, is oil companies keeping us slurping at the petroleum tit until it's all gone. THEN buying up all the US farmland (If it doesn't have houses and strip malls on it first) and raking us over the coals again selling ethanol. (And probably getting tax breaks and subsidies to do it)

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    Drift
    What I find funny is that Brazil is a Nation not a State...little different when you have the whole nation backing it. Only in CA could you say such dumb stuff on the TV and have people think you are saying something sooo profound. Fuel is a federal issue and state taxed... I'll bet you dollars to donuts that if CA was able to pull away from the need to use petrol the freaking geniuses in Sacremento would tax the f- out of it.

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