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In reply to the discussion: NASCAR hits 5 million miles on 15% Ethanol blend, with 20% less emissions... [View all]Bill USA
(6,436 posts)5. you could always go back to the figure 8 races, there's lots of crashes there.
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NASCAR hits 5 million miles on 15% Ethanol blend, with 20% less emissions... [View all]
Bill USA
Feb 2014
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By "respected" I was referring to Sientific American, which is a respected journal
BlueStreak
Feb 2014
#12
Wind, Solar, and conservation. All are better than converting perfectly good food into carbon
BlueStreak
Feb 2014
#18
we are talking about the GHG emissions from the light transportation sector. Of course I am for all
Bill USA
Feb 2014
#19
you have not stated a technology and its GHG reduction numbers. I need estimated or recorded GHG
Bill USA
Feb 2014
#26
you haven't established that food has been taken out of the supply chain. Our farmers are producing
Bill USA
Feb 2014
#20
No it's not beside the point, unless you don't mind full blown AGW accelerating until we can't rein
Bill USA
Feb 2014
#21
crop support payments to corporate farms is as abominable as tax breaks for huge oil companies..but
Bill USA
Feb 2014
#28
"not nearly enough"?: 29 million Priuses needed to achieve Ethanol’s current GHG emissions reduction
Bill USA
Feb 2014
#30
How about a 67% GHG emissions reduction for ethanol. The ethanol enabled Direct Injection engine ..
Bill USA
Feb 2014
#31
California's love affair with Big Oil - letters from a Corporate Feudalist State.
Bill USA
Feb 2014
#13
You aren't going to get past 12-15% efficiency for internal combustion engines.
kristopher
Feb 2014
#22
Pleasegive timeframe for achieving this bioelectric transportation. You're running out of time.
Bill USA
Feb 2014
#27
The tank to wheels of ICE isn't going to get above about 18% and avg will be lower.
kristopher
Feb 2014
#29
James Hansen a huckster? Give timeframe for achieving bioelectric light transportation..# of years..
Bill USA
Feb 2014
#32
Give the number of years investing in dead end technologies that preserve fossil fuels...
kristopher
Feb 2014
#35
compared to hybrids and PHEVS? I computed 20 years for Priuses (i.e. hybrids) to equal Ethanol's GHG
Bill USA
Feb 2014
#42
you're out of your mind: "preserve fossil fuels"? the Oil industry is fanatically fighting ethanol..
Bill USA
Mar 2014
#47
alcohol fuel with turbocharging/supercharging has been shown to achieve 40% Brake thermal efficiency
Bill USA
Feb 2014
#34
What subsidy? The VEETC ended in 2011. You've drifted off again into your own private world of
Bill USA
Feb 2014
#37
29 million Priuses needed to achieve Ethanol’s current GHG reduction. Cost: $232 Billion
Bill USA
Feb 2014
#38
You are really in your own little world aren't you. Subsidies are not needed by ethanol. It's been
Bill USA
Feb 2014
#43
I'm pointing out GHG reductions now it will take 29 million hybrids to achieve maybe in 20 yrs.
Bill USA
Feb 2014
#44
Koplow talks about hypotheticals "under some ....proposals" whose possibilities evaporated in 2011
Bill USA
Mar 2014
#45
What polices are you advocating for - spell it out and quit playing silly games.
kristopher
Mar 2014
#46
again quoting from a 2009 article. the ethanol mandate does not 'cost' us anything,as oil ind says,
Bill USA
Mar 2014
#49
your linked article calculates subsidies for 2008 - 2022. Subsidies for corn ethanol ended 1/1/2012
Bill USA
Mar 2014
#51
I've been noticing a bunch of empty seats at NASAR tracks over the last few years.
unhappycamper
Feb 2014
#2