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The one step program to breaking our dependence on foreign oil? All cars sold in America must be a flex-fuel vehicle (FFV). These are the opening lines from one of Robert Zubrin’s presentations on how our country can sever its ties to terrorism. World renowned engineer and author of “Energy Victory,” Zubrin is set to be a guest on Pure Energy’s premier show.
Zubrin will tell our listeners how, “our decades-long relationship with OPEC has resulted in the looting of our economy, the corruption of our political system, and now the funding and protection of terrorist regimes and movements that are committed to our destruction.” His segment will be nothing short of tantalizing as O’Hanlon and Zubrin engage in a lively debate about the best way to end America’s addiction to oil.
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This is interesting and I agree with many of the things Mr. Zubrin states here. Except… using ethanol as the alternative fuel of choice.
Engines running on ethanol are about 15% less efficient than engines running on regular gasoline. Diesel engines on the other hand are about 20 % MORE efficeint than gasoline engines (See new VW commercial comparing to Prius).
In Europe about 50% of all vehicles run on Diesel. In the US its less than 1%!!. So… if we are going to pass a law, why don’t we favour diesel engines instead?
If we could reach the same % of vehicles as Europe has, how much oil would we save?
I am all for renewables, but I also understand that the cheapest form of enery is saved energy. In this case its called negagallons.