Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 18:09:15 -0700
Reply-To: Robert Fisher <garciasghostvw@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Robert Fisher <garciasghostvw@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Ethanol..Corn only?
In-Reply-To: <483CAA1D.2000506@turbovans.com>
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About a week ago I saw a guy at the gas station at the end of the street. He
was in a full-sized pickup; he had filled the entire bed with brand-new
five-gallon gas cans and he was in the process of filling all the gas cans.
Bizarre.
Cya,
Robert
On 5/27/08, Scott Foss - Shazam <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
>
> 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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