I am amazed that people love to complain about everything under the sun. It is very easy to stir the pot so to speak. When you turn on your t.v. you go to the gas pump and you stare at the price of a gallon of gas. You scream on the inside, you even scream on the outside. You go to work and complain to your colleuges about the outrageousness of the cost of fuel in this country. You complain to your legistlators to get something done. You scream at the automakers to come out with a more fuel efficent car,truck or SUV. You say "We need alternative means of fuel". "Anyone up for electric cars?" Well if you know anything, you would know when cars were first introduced there were several different types of cars.
Gas,electric and even steam powered cars. Well we all know who won out in that race. But why? Simple. Gas was easier to refine and have stations all accross the country, and the money was great!. There would have been no money in putting water stations accross the country. (You already have water at home).And as for electric, well battery technology just wasn't up to the task.
So we continue to scream from the 1970's until today. We have to get away from our dependance of foreign oil. When we first said it, in the 70's we had the "gas crunch" I used to know the percentage of the amount that was shut off from the U.S. It was something like 13% of our useage was cut off by the middle east(near east is what its really called some dumbass reporter got it wrong and ever since you guessed it we call it middle).
So we began the transformation of taking some of the corn we produce in this country and make Ethanol. We call it E85. 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline. Our automakers create engines or alter engines to use this new formula and help take away the foreign oil need. Well DaimlerChrysler came out with such engines in 1998 and has sold about 1.5 million since. They never bragged about it, until now. I cannot count the number of times that people ask me, "What does Flexfuel E85 mean?" After telling them they actually say, "Oh I don't like that" or, "Who cares". ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!?!?!?! People piss and moan and the very thing that can help, and they don't care? Granted E85 is not the end all beat all fix. It is not that great on gas mileage.
