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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."
The best alternative is to develope communities in a fashion that is conducive to both mass-transit as well as manual-transit (such as walking, biking, &c.)
What??? Are you a fucking moron? Supply doesn't have anything to do with peak oil when there is reserve capacity still in the world. Saudi has a reserve capacity of 260 billion barrels per day that will last over 81 years. Hell if we simply took the reserves estimated to last over 100 years we would have an additional 490 billion barrels per day in output. In 2006, OPEC claimed to hold 922 billion barrels of daily oil production in reserve in OPEC member nations alone. They admited to another 273 bn barrels in non OPEC countries and this is likely before Canada's reserves where added to then mix.
Perhaps I incorrectly assumed that you actually knew what peak oil was about. Next time your looking at the data, try looking at some definitions too. And no, there is little incentive for the countries who have accessible reserves to increase production. We have locked our fields out increasing the demand on the global market and most of the other countries don't consume near as much oil as we do. By not increasing supply, they are basically paying for their own consumption through profits from sales to the US. Although the US currently produces between 70 and 75 percent of it's own oil domestically, for some reason we aren't allowed to tap into one third of our known and potential oil fields so politicians can get elected by stringing this gas prices thing along and environmentalist don't run out of things to bitch about.
Like I attempted to say without being insulting at first with the comment of not taking new technologies into account, most people spouting about peak oil have no clue to what they are talking about. They seem to think it is static and screw something up in the process of evaluating it every time.