Explain the math
Just saw on the news that the govt will be removing the restrictions on summer use of E15 gas to help folks "save" money at the pump.
I have never used E15 gas but have had to buy E10 gas a few times and my mileage is about 10% less than it is with pure gas. Now they are going to push E15 as a way to save 10¢ a gallon. Will one of you math genius members explain to me how this won't end up costing a lot more because of having to buy more gas because of the mpg difference.
Currently if I buy 20 gallons of gas at 4$/gal and get 25mpg I'll have a 500 mile range for that tank of gas. If I buy 20 gallons of E10 for $3.90 I'll saving a whopping 2 bucks but only have a 450 mile range and I've to buy at least 2 more gallons, $7.80, to get back to my initial 500 mile range. It seems like that cheaper gas just cost me an extra $5.80 to go the same distance as regular gas. I have no idea how the mileage would be for E15 but I can guess it would be even worse than the E10. Classify me as confused. Bob
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Don't try to reason with them, it will just make your head ache.😒
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"Take a second and think about it. People are starving all over the world and we are turning food into fuel..........That is hard to get your head around."
Sam06, you may have been in places that would appreciate having common field corn for food but it's going to take a lot of 'persuasion' to encourage Americans to belly up to ground corn gruel for supper.
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Aside from the fact that it is creating an alternate/lesser(BTU wise) form of energy, and trying to convince the citizenry that it's a great idea................basically.......at its very core......it is a MONEY GRAB by virtually everyone involved.
More $0.02........
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Sam06: 30485170320539/comments/30485191705883
Take a second and think about it. People are starving all over the world and we are turning food into fuel..........That is hard to get your head around.
Another thing to think about all these idiots want to ban all oil drilling and production, have they thought about the plastic stuff they use every day like their stupid water bottles or the dashboard of their Tesla. What are we going to make water bottles out of? Wood on no you cannot cut down trees, metal how are you going to melt it without either coal or oil how about rock no way digging up rock requires oil.
These green loonys would be the 1st group impacted by no more oil. They have no clue what they are asking for. I doubt you can even make a wind turbine or a solar panel with oil.
"Take a second and think about it. People are starving all over the world and we are turning food into fuel..........That is hard to get your head around."
We need fuel. They need food. (We do too, but evidently that is not an issue.) We can make fuel from food. Apparently they can't make food from anything. We are supposed to feed them? Can we trade our food/fuel for their - whatever they have to trade?
You are right. This is hard to get your head around.
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I don't think we are supposed to feed "them" but to use food to fuel a vehicle when there is an abundence of oil is insane IMO.
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I would still like to hear one of the "Greenies" explain where they think the tremendous amounts of electricity to power electric cars will come from if everyone switches over.
And how they are going to subsidize the purchase of $40,000 electric cars for everyone?
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Sam06: 30485170320539/comments/30485173174811
I don't think we are supposed to feed "them" but to use food to fuel a vehicle when there is an abundence of oil is insane IMO.
I live in Iowa and was raised on a farm. I left the farm for the Army and came home 25 years later. I don't farm. I just "retire".
I can drive down any road in the Summer and see many thousands of acres of corn fields. We don't have any oil fields in my area. The federal government does not control the amount of corn a farmer can raise (unless he is participating in some type of "conservation program" - for that when you take Caesar's coin you must follow Caesar's rules).
The federal government has a kabillion rules concerning oil fields and refineries - I suppose. I can look out my office window and see an ethanol plant. The last I heard they are receiving over 100 semi-trailer loads per day - in fact right now. Hint: It is NOT harvest season right now in Southwest Iowa. That is a whole bunch of corn. We have enough corn. During harvest season, they actually dump the corn on the ground due to a lack of storage.
I prefer to run non-ethanol fuel in my 1945 Jeep. Otherwise I will run whatever I can get - especially if it has fewer restrictions from the federal government - and helps the neighborhood farmers.
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The simplest solution in this case is.
DRILL, DRILL, DRILL. There is over 500 years of fuel in this country alone, over 1000 years of clean (low sulfur) coal. I took many of coal trains to a coal fired power plant, that utilized scrubbers, they removed more sulfur by use of lime some how in this scrubber.
It is impossible to power this country alone on wind turbines and solar panels, and the idea of all electric transportation is a pipe dream. Gasoline using up to 10% ethanol is doable, but anything over 10% is a waste of time and not economical.
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