Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 17:41:01 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Foss - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Foss - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Ethanol..Corn only?
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The only place 'real gasoline' is aviable right now in Oregon is at bulk
fuel supply places.
and it goes into a gas can or 55 barrel in teh back of your pick-up, I
believe,. Yu can't put it right into your tank.
fer sure., real gasoline would be MUCH better. if that , there is no
doubt. Ya just cain't git it rat now is all.
Guy told me in California the pumps say 'May" contain up to 10 % ethanol.
I think ours might say 'contains 10 % ethanol'
scott
turbovans
John Rodgers wrote:
> A new farm bill recently passed is going to make a lot of BIG CORPORATE
> farmers richer. The little family farmer - no so. This is all about the
> power of corporate America to get what they want. The rich have to be
> bought off before the little guy gets his chance. The whole thing sucks.
>
> BTW, with 10% ethanol you ain't getting what you are trying to pay for.
> The price of fuels keeps going up, but that dab of ethanol in the tank -
> it will lower your gas mileage per gallon. So though we are paying more,
> we ain't even holding our own on the gas mileage. If you can find the
> straight stuff (gasoline) burn the straight stuff.!
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
> Scott Foss - Shazam wrote:
>> Well Don !
>> I think you NAILED IT - obviously our fuel should be 10 % Rum !!!
>>
>> But i think you have the general gist of 'the problem' regarding
>> congress mandaated corn to make fuel.......
>> And as i saw in a political cartoon about ethanol -
>> I think it's making a lot of farmers rich right now too, or the new Farm
>> Bill will.
>>
>> it's expensive to make,
>> and it makes food prices go up.
>> ( and there was a 3rd slam on it, but i forget what it was just now ) ..
>> scott
>> turbovans
>>
>> Don Hanson wrote:
>>> This talk about Ethanol mixed into pump gas. Can one only make
>>> Ethanol from
>>> Corn, or does any fermenting plant produce it? Did I imagine reading
>>> somewhere that our Gov. decreed corn to be *the* designated
>>> bio-source for
>>> ethanol over other plants that might be more productive when turned
>>> into
>>> 'go-juice'? Like sugar cane, sugar beets, etc? Seems like using
>>> only corn
>>> is a waste, since corn is also a pretty widely eaten food source for
>>> humans,
>>> while cane and beets just make sugar, mainly...and rum...
>>> Hmmm..maybe Rum is important to those Oil Boys who are in charge
>>> right
>>> now...
>>> VW van content: Back in my Split window Hippy Van days, we used to
>>> make a
>>> home brew we called "Pineapple Swipe". Took only a few days to get
>>> pretty
>>> strong, so we'd mix up a batch when we left on a long surfing trip,
>>> stash it
>>> in the back of the van and later on throw a big party..."Pineapple
>>> Swipe"
>>> because we often swiped the base ingredient: pineapples...Little
>>> criminals
>>> and hooligans that we were (are?)
>>> Don Hanson
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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