SwiftFuel Alternative To Alternative Fuels

TheDawgLives writes "PBS has an article by Bob Cringely about the best route to end our dependence on oil and reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. Instead of replacing all our expensive cars with even more expensive hybrids or electric cars, his suggestion is to use a cheap drop-in replacement for gasoline called Swift Fuel. It is derived from Ethanol, but doesn't require any modification to older cars to prevent corrosion. It can be mixed with gasoline in any amount and can even be distributed using the same network as gasoline, including being pumped in the same pipes and shipped in the same trucks. It is truly a drop-in replacement for gas, and it is real. It is being tested by the FAA for certification in propeller aircraft. It also happens to be about $2 a gallon cheaper than gasoline."

Comments

It's not a religion

[Anonymous Coward]

It's not a religion. Religions are based on faith. This is based on hysteria.

Re:Food prices

[Facetious]

My sense from the Cringely article is that the "six times" number refers to net energy. Then again, I read the article Friday and my memory is subject to exponential decay.

Re:Food prices

[FiloEleven]

I know if I was a farmer and had a chance to make more money growing a weed I would be all over it. Yeah, I tried that. You go to jail.

Re:Food prices

[A nonymous Coward]

Mt Everest is even colder and people climb that too.

But not to and from work.

Re:Correction

[CrazyJim1]

So wait, I don't get you. Do you mean gasoline is going to go up another 10 cents in the next five minutes so it will be $2.10 cheaper? Or do you mean that once this technology gets found out, they'll jack the price up because it is a substitute for gasoline?

Re:Food prices

[mrchaotica]

Mt Everest is even colder and people climb that too. But not to and from work.

Oh yeah? What about sherpas, then? ; )

Re:I just ate an aspirin pancake.

[timotten]

we should all simply develop photosynthesis to fuel our bodies instead.

Okay, sounds good. I'll need a cost estimate on that for Monday's meeting.

Also, do you know any consultants who have done this before?

Thanks,
Management

Re:Actually you are both quite wrong.

[werewolf1031]

For by riding my bicycle, I am now one of the elitist jerks, the holier-than-thou and more self-righteous than the car or bus-bound commuters around me. There, fixed that for ya. :)

The Solution (drum roll, please)

[BucketOfLard]

Problem: We're running out of cheap oil.
Solution: Kill more dinosaurs.

That was easy.

Re:Food prices

[dmsuperman]

In my first class in college, we learned about logical fallacies. One such fallacy is the "if there's no perfect solution, do nothing" fallacy. I swear, if you had only posted this a few years ago so that I might be able to use it for an example I might have gotten a better grade in that class.