NinerBikes
Jan 16, 2015Explorer
Gas question
Sometimes I get bad gas, sometimes I get good gas. With a barrel of oil being so cheap, it it going to make adding ethanol to gasoline a cost prohibitive idea with so much surplus gasoline availa...
Empty Nest, Soon wrote:
I don’t believe it does one thing to help “energy independence.” But as I recall, that was the basis on which they sold us this bill of goods. Google “ethanol energy independence” and you will still find plenty of sources touting its benefits for energy independence. Baloney!
If the US cared about energy independence, or the environment, we would be moving toward wind, solar, hydro, and maybe even nuclear for those uses where oil can be replaced by other energy sources. We would stop exporting oil and gas. We would leave ours in the ground for now – we’re going to need it later.
Wayne