Environment & Energy
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Unless we switch to alcohol, the perfect fuel.
Trolls who b===ch about food for fuel, ruining engines, etc, do your homework! Stop buying oil company propaganda.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/27/us-caremissions-study-idUSBRE9AQ0TN20131127
alcoholcanbeagas.com
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Source: http://www.transportenvironment.org/sites/te/files/publications/GDI%20Briefing_final_T%26E.pdf
The era of the Internal Combustion Engine, powered by fossil fuels or by ethanol, is ending.
It would already have ended but for the corrupt power structure of fossil fuel and auto manufacturing companies, and all the ancillary interests.
We are in a state of transformation away from the ICE model already.
Ethanol is better than petrol, but not near as flexible and sustainable as electrically powered technologies that can get their energy from the sun, the wind, and other renewable sources in any combination.
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GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)You stop that crazy talk, you!
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)You offend my sensibilities. Human's are not animals. We should not walk anywhere. If we cannot be carried by a mechanical servant, surely life is not worth living
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)The Manifest Destiny of our species.
NickB79
(19,273 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)A particulate filter.
Europeans are smart, they'll figure this out.
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)that can't be imported here because they can't confrom to EPA requirements. There isn't one car listed in any of the article built for sale here.