Comments | aganoth: Car Talk - So Here is the Real Deal.

aganoth

Car Talk - So Here is the Real Deal.

Feb 26, 2008 19:32

Everyone's out grasping at ideas to lower the fuel mileage of their cars, reduce our dependence on foreign oils, and lower their tailpipe emissions (which is impossible). So the government is involved, giving power to these small sects of people who can't win at democracy. So, what are they doing?

THEY'RE KILLING THE AUTOMAKERS. Plain ( Read more... )

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decemberknight February 27 2008, 06:29:27 UTC

The massive amounts of CO2 that existed millions of years ago, and "killed the dinosaurs"... Where did it go? It was absorbed by trillions of microscopic creatures, mostly living in the ocean. What did they do with it? Converted the CO2 into various forms of carbon to form their bodies. And what did they do then? Died, and became oil. What happens when you burn the oil? Releases that carbon as CO and CO2 right back into the atmosphere ( ... )

aganoth February 28 2008, 04:22:52 UTC

No, where did the giant spike of CO2 come from, not why fossil fuels release CO2 when they're burned. The point is how people can think that we can change something as grand as the world's weather patterns. Especially when the largest produce of CO2 in the world is no man nor machine. The sea evaporates all day every day. One of the teachers at the academy made a great point today. The temperate has raised since we first started recording the temperature of the world. It has. And over all that time it has raised 8F. 8 degrees. His point was WWII. How many burning ships, bombs, explosions, atom bombs, oil fires, etc... And all worth 8F ( ... )

skullingaxe February 28 2008, 05:51:45 UTC

Ok I've sat by and watch this now its time to put my input in ( ... )

chaosdefined February 27 2008, 16:35:54 UTC

Geez... that started hurting my brain towards the end of it. I don't know a whole lot on many of the topics you covered - though I found the information fancinating - I have studied the concept of ethanol a bit.

Some notes:
1. If every acre of corn were used for ethanol, it would replace only 12.3% of the gasoline used in this country.
2. Ethanol must be blended with gasoline. But ethanol absorbs water. Gasoline doesn't. Therefore, ethanol cannot be shipped by regular petroleum pipelines. Instead, it must be segregated from other motor fuels and shipped by truck, rail car, or barge. Those shipping methods are far more expensive than pipelines.
3. One your note about how ethanol contains less energy than gasoline, it means the same amount for the same cost as gas, won't take you as far and you end up filling up more frequently.

There's more, but I'm tired.

Also... hehe... boobs.