| At his inauguration, and all along the campaign trail, our | | | | 3) Increase the bore of the carburetor's main |
| new President said that the United States must | | | | intake-valve -- or decrease the bore of the |
| become "energy self-sufficient". That means no more | | | | fuel-injection nozzles -- by 30-35%. |
| reliance on foreign oil, so that certain foreign | | | | 4) Add a pre-heater to the fuel line. |
| governments can't blackmail us by threatening to | | | | Since American racing-cars often run on alcohol, it |
| withhold fuel. | | | | shouldn't be hard to find a good racetrack mechanic |
| The single most common use of oil in the US is | | | | who can do the conversion in a week or less. |
| powering vehicles. If we have a replacement for | | | | Besides, Ford and Chevrolet and GM already have |
| gasoline, we can tell all the oil barons in the world to | | | | models of cars and small trucks on the market that |
| kiss off and die. And yes, we do have such a | | | | are designed to run on what they call "flex-fuel": |
| replacement! In fact, we've had it for decades. | | | | gasoline, ethanol, or any combination thereof. It's odd |
| No, it's not the hybrid or electric car. Hybrids use less | | | | that these flex-fuel vehicles haven't been advertized |
| gasoline, but they still use some. The main problems | | | | more widely. |
| with electric cars are that there's a heavy | | | | All you find about fuel ethanol in the news media are |
| environmental and financial cost for manufacturing the | | | | criticisms, none of them very solid. The most common |
| batteries, and that electricity has to come from | | | | complaint is that ethanol can only be made out of |
| somewhere. Hydroelectric and wind sources for | | | | food-crops, grain or fruit, which would cut into our food |
| electricity are being pushed to the limit right now, solar | | | | supply. This is totally false. Only edible -- that is, |
| electric conversion is nowhere near efficient, coal | | | | drinkable or "food grade" -- ethanol needs to be made |
| burning causes air-pollution problems, and nobody likes | | | | from food. Fuel-grade ethanol, which doesn't need to |
| nuclear power. | | | | be of drinking quality, can be made from cellulose. |
| We can't run the country's cars on electricity. Sorry. | | | | That's vegetable trash: cornstalks, straw, lawn |
| The solution is alcohol: fuel-grade ethanol, to be precise. | | | | trimmings, weeds, sawdust, etc. And there's plenty of it |
| It's cheap, safe, and more abundant than most people | | | | available, cheap! Search "cellulosic ethanol producers" |
| know. We could convert all our existing | | | | on the Internet, and you'll find no less than three new |
| internal-combustion-engine cars to fuel-grade ethanol in | | | | companies in the US that are making industrial volumes |
| a single week, just by following four simple steps: | | | | of fuel-ethanol from vegetable trash. |
| 1) Replace the engine seals with "exotic-fuel seals", | | | | Obviously, somebody is buying all that fuel-ethanol. |
| available from supply houses like Warshawski's and | | | | That fact hasn't been advertised either. One might |
| Checker. | | | | suspect political motives. |
| 2) Set the engine compression at 9 to 1. | | | | |