Showing posts with label Fuel Competition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fuel Competition. Show all posts

Interesting Facts About Alcohol Fuels

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1. Since at least  1791 , most American farmers used their own alcohol stills to turn crop waste into ethanol for stove fuel. In the 1830...

What OPEC Does is Illegal

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What OPEC does to control the world price of oil is illegal. They all agree to raise or lower their oil production for the purpose of keepin...

Maintaining the Monopoly

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The oil industry has actively blocked our access to competing fuel. We have 160,000 stations today with gasoline pumps and only 2,900 statio...

Agave is a Promising Fuel Feedstock

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"Scientists found that in 14 independent studies, the yields of two Agave species greatly exceeded the yields of other biofuel feedstoc...

Does Ethanol Production Raise the Price of Meat?

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Since most of the corn grown in the United States is feed for animals, wouldn't the ethanol industry raise meat prices? According to the...

American Oil Independence

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When significant competition happens in the fuel market, one of two things will happen — either gas prices will go down, or the producers of...

Burning E85 Without a Conversion Kit (in a Non-Flex-Fuel Vehicle)

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Most cars may be already capable of burning ethanol. This first part is a letter by  John Kolak : I thought about this a lot, and realized I...

Marc Rauch at the American Coalition for Ethanol Conference

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The video below is a speech by Marc J. Rauch, the Executive Vice President and Co-Publisher of The Auto Channel . His talk is very relaxed, ...

We Don't Have a Free Market in Transportation Fuel

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When thinking about the "mandate issue" (wanting to preserve a free market and not encumber it with government regulation) on the ...

Are You Outraged About High Gas Prices? It May Depend on What You Know

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 In an article in the  LA Times , columnist Jerry Hirsch points out that although gas prices show every indication of rising higher than the...

Power Plays

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The following is an excerpt from a new book by Robert Rapier entitled  Power Plays: Energy Options in the Age of Peak Oil . Reprinted with p...

Experimenting With Alcohol

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The letter below is a response to John Kolak's article,  On Using Ethanol Fuels In Unmodified Vehicles . The letter was written by  Marc...

What the Whiskey Rebellion of 1791 Has to Teach Us About the Food Versus Fuel Issue

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The famous   Whiskey Rebellion   occurred in 1791. Farmers were rebelling against a tax on their whiskey making — a tax they perceived as un...

Super Grass

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A new hybrid grass has been recently developed that is not an invasive species, is not genetically modified, can be grown on marginal lands ...

New Butanol Production

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Several big companies, including Gevo and Butamax, have found a way to convert ethanol production facilities into butanol plants. Butanol is...

We Don't Have a Free Market in Transportation Fuel

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Petroleum does not exist in a free market. Some oil production operations produce oil for much cheaper than others, so they could sell their...

We Converted Our Car to a Flex-Fuel Vehicle

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We converted our car and it feels great! We broke free. It’s been a long time since I did something that made me so happy. We just filled up...

E85 Does Not harm Non-Flex-Fuel Engines

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This ten-minute video shows you a test done on a non-flex-fuel car that burned mostly E85 for over a hundred thousand miles. Not only did it...

Boosting Food and Fuel Simultaneously

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Researchers at the University of Minnesota fed algae meal (what's left over after algae is used to make biofuels) to dairy cows and disc...

The Purpose of an Open Fuel Standard

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An open fuel standard would make a huge difference to everyone. Fuels available right now could be sold for substantially less than the cur...