Thank you Wes for your question about Ethanol and pointing to this article.
Our opinion is that the article is comparing apples to oranges:
A. Comparing an Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) to electric motor
technology is not a fair comparison. ICE at its highest efficiencies is half
of what
electric motor efficiencies are and the article is incomplete in other
aspects as well.
B. Present day infrastructure for transportation would require complete
restructuring for the alternative energies described in the article whereas
Ethanol requires little to no infrastructure improvements.
C. The article doesn't mention that Alternative Fuel Vehicles (AFV) to run
off these energy sources are no where near in mass production whereas
flex-fuel vehicles are.
D. In all the articles and research we've read Cellulosic Ethanol is
favored.
As it relates to lsr we feel it would be good business for lsr to support
AFV Motor Sports, since the environmentally friendly cars we drive in the
future will be made to perform better and faster as history demonstrates that
testing and tuning petroleum products on the race tracks has improved, even
reinvented the cars we drive today.
Respectfully,
The Singletons
In a message dated 12/31/2008 12:43:23 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
wester6935@comcast.net writes:
Think E 85 is the answer?
http://www.nextautos.com/stanford-university-study-shows-ethanol-be-worst-form
-renewable-energy
I wonder what the proponents would say about this article.
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