The time is now for alternative fuels

Ron Jeske wrote:

Your points are well made. I do believe that Chevrolet was marking vehicles as alternative fuel before the 2008 model year, but there were so few that it was hardly noticeable.

Gerry wrote:

The problem is the corn ethanol. It is driving up the price of corn. There is not enough corn to fuel cars. Longer term other areas look promising, but corn ethanol is bad policy.

US Constitution wrote:

<quoted text>True how about we use the USDA stock pile of sugar like Brazil? Our USDA stores tons of sugar so it don't flood the market. Sugar is alot better for ethanol and our taxes are used for storage and some times destruction. Sad but true.

Gerry wrote:

The problem is the corn ethanol. It is driving up the price of corn. There is not enough corn to fuel cars. Longer term other areas look promising, but corn ethanol is bad policy.

Solarman wrote:

<quoted text>Try www.algenol.com or www.Valcent.net

Gerry wrote:

<quoted text>
Interesting. I am aware of a lot of things going on, although you came up with some specifics.
In any case, we won't have a difference for years on anything. What we need is an energy council for a half a year. We need a blueprint and get away from politics. This country has been unable to do the right thing for 40 years. We need a Manhattan project and throw billions of dollars into this.
There is nothing in the short term. Just longer term. We need to look at everything from drilling, to nuclear, to the technology that you talk about. It won't happen overnight. I have said many times that we have an energy crisis and a monetary crisis. And somebody in Washington needs to wake up.

Gerry wrote:

<quoted text>
Interesting. I am aware of a lot of things going on, although you came up with some specifics.
In any case, we won't have a difference for years on anything. What we need is an energy council for a half a year. We need a blueprint and get away from politics. This country has been unable to do the right thing for 40 years. We need a Manhattan project and throw billions of dollars into this.
There is nothing in the short term. Just longer term. We need to look at everything from drilling, to nuclear, to the technology that you talk about. It won't happen overnight. I have said many times that we have an energy crisis and a monetary crisis. And somebody in Washington needs to wake up.

Solarman wrote:

<quoted text>All any of us can do is to write our respective Congressmen/women and send them these sites to look at. There is also a company of sorts called Melis Energy that uses algae to produce hydrogen. They are working on a bioreactor right now. Congress needs to get behind this technology if we are to go fossil oil free in a decade or so.

Dennis2 wrote:

<quoted text>
I strongly agree with this statement of yours: "We need a Manhattan project and throw billions of dollars into this."
As a nation we are allowing ourselves to be devastated financially, and beholden to other nations for our energy and economy. Why? There is no excuse beyond short-term thinking and profiteering. Drilling on our lands/coasts is not the answer. It will be band-aid on a gaping, gushing wound, and will just encourage the oil companies to continue to milk every last dollar of high-margin profit that they can before there is a true focus on better ways. Just as with the Manhattan Project, just as with the original space race, we need a concerted, multi-disciplinary joint government-private industry, all out push to finding a better way. We shouldn't be waiting around until the oil industry can't shatter record profits anymore and finally, grudgingly shift to other research once their cash cow, including government corporate welfare, finally dries up.

Gerry wrote:

The problem is the corn ethanol. It is driving up the price of corn. There is not enough corn to fuel cars. Longer term other areas look promising, but corn ethanol is bad policy.