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Missouri cheap gas: Yeah RIGHT!!
I live in Kansas City, Missouri and the gas here is still to much. For unleaded its running people around $3.80.I drive a 08 Chevy cobolt an just to fill it up cost me close to 40-$50 every 2wks. People here are sending emails to the mayor and the senate saying if they are going to raise gas prices rise the cost of living so we can afford to buy ...
Posted to Explainer by missmissouri on June 10, 2008
More than ethanol
Ethanol isn't the only choice. The more fuel alcohols we can produce from a variety of plants the better. Using non-food plants to make alcohol reduces the impact on food prices and can make good use of organic waste. Energy production can also be more localized. Underdeveloped countries can be energy ...
Posted to Explainer by eretzlaff on April 2, 2008
the problem isn't energy independence. . .
. . . it's energy diversity. Right now, we're dependent on one source for fuel: oil. As such, we're totally vulnerable to its risks and shortcomings. Replace it with ethanol, we'd STILL be vulnerable, just to a different set of risks and shortcomings. You can replace ethanol with any other proposed alterna-fuel and come up with the ...
Posted to Hey Wait a Minute by feline74 on July 2, 2007