Knowing that we both are going to see large changes in our environment due to global heating and increasing amounts of Co2 in the atmosphere is not much fun. What you say sounds very much like the typical hardcore right-wing PR I see in american media daily
Either we come up with some new ways to fuel our cars, or transportation will become very expensive in a while. Methanole is one way around it, as is bio-oil. Here in scandinavia we have lots of woods, so they are researching ways to quickly produce methanole and ethanole from wood. This might be a good solution for a densely populated area with economic cars like scandinavia, but you in the U.S have a real problem coming with your car pool and mentality. Efficiency is good, both in cars and boats.
Rolf I remember seeing an article in a US based magazine (Mother Earth News) years ago about a guy who put a wood stove in the back of his pickup. The wood stove was damped down so it would smoulder. He then ran the smoke into his engine and voila wood running his truck.
I don't remember the details but apparantly if my memory serves me (it frequently doesn't) this idea was spawned in the Netherlands or Holland back sometime around WW2 probably due to oil shortages.
Not sure of details, however where there's smoke...... there's some American drivin down da 'ighway.... . <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Brings a whole new meaning to smokin along the highway... <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Canadians also pay a high fuel tax. We haven't died of starvation yet. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Interestingly I was just in Atlanta GA last week (lovely spot, incredibly friendly people) and I was shocked that food in the grocery stores was pretty much the same price as we pay in Canada and yet in the winter our food comes from the US. In other words it is trucked to us a long way. Economics is not as simple as some would like to make it...
