When Alcohol And Airplanes Make A Good Mix

gilgsn writes "Both for the economy and the environment, as suggested in this Iwon Money article. The Brazilians use sugar cane alcohol to fuel their modification of a single engine crop duster called the "Ipanema." The company projects a 25 percent increase in revenue from the new alcohol planes and increased income to convert existing gasoline-fueled Ipanemas to alcohol. With the threat of war for the U.S. and a subsequent raise in oil prices, this might be of some interest for our general aviation."

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ESR is a racist genocidal maniac

[turm5ric]

I think he is right to see Afghanistan, Iraq, and the suppression of Al-Qaeda as phases of longer, wider war ? a clash of civilizations driven by the failure of Islamic/Arab culture (though I would stress the problem of the Islamic commandment to jihad more than he does). I think he is also right to say that our long-term objective must be to break, crush and eventually destroy this culture, because we can't live on the same planet with people who both carry those memes and have access to weapons of mass destruction. They will hate us and seek to destroy us not for what we've done but for what we are.

Re:Economics will screw this up

[fruey]

Diesel is a dirty fuel. In France they keep the price down artificially and have too high a percentage of diesel cars. And the soot it produces makes Parisian walls black. Sickening.

Morocco is worse. Diesel is subsidised by the government and costs half what regular gasoline costs. Everyone buys diesel cars, same story. Casablancan walls are black.

A lot of people would run cleaner fuels, but it's not in oil company interests to let us. Pure and simple. And let us not forget that George Bush has oil interests. Do not think that the coming war in Iraq has everything to do with this. Because Americans need cheap gas because the government has kept prices down for them, not given them alternatives, and therefore let them all buy huge engines over 3 litres just to run around town. At least in Europe we realise that for a second car you only need between 1.3 and 1.6 litre engines. With efficient injectors and good chassis they are even OK to do long haul drives.

Oil and energy issues ... the scourge of 21st century America