[Crazy Canuck]

http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx?time=24

And some of you complain about gas prices... (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/nutkick.gif) (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/lmao.gif)

Over the last week in Montreal, it's been ~ 5$/gallon.
and btw, Montreal is among the most expensive in Canada... to make it worse.

[SStrokerAce]

I'm a really big fan of E85 so we don't have to go thru a total transformation of everything. We have lots of development time in internal combustion engines and there is nothing wrong with supporting farmers more. If engines were built just to run E85 we would have much cheaper gas bills. The lack of fuel economy could be offset by more compression and direct injection along with advancements in ethanol production it would be easy to see sub $2 a gallon fuel. That would transform the auto industry in a short time and keep us out of the middle east except to help Israel.

The second generation process to make Ethanol are very interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel

If we got away from Corn and moved to a plant like switchgrass to make cellulosic ethanol we are getting someplace in terms of ethanol prodcution per plant and emissions coming from production of the fuel. Either way a big change to say electric or hydrogen power is going to be extremely hard on the infrastructure of fuel stations and engine technology. This is a very good read... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulosic_ethanol

The reduction of harmfull emissions by using ethonal vs. gasoline is substantial and considering that China and the US both have large land areas to grow fuel and we will be the largest two users of fuel to power our economies it could work out very well.

Bret

This post has been edited by SStrokerAce: Mar 3 2008, 06:39 AM