Down here we’re paying anyhting betwee 3,5 and 4,5 dollars per gallon of gas (with 25% of ethanol thrown in for good measure!!)

On a road trip I recently got about 15 km/l on gas (if it were pure gas that would be almost 20km/l, off the top of my head that almost or slightly more than 50 mpg).

The shocker is this gas price has been going on for more than 3years!! Irrelavant of whether gas is 140 or 40 bucks a barrel. And a reason for that is to keep ethanol competitive (as our good friends in Indiana have found out, it is only competitive if gas is above 90 bucks a barrel).

So I have the best of all worlds *sigh* I get to pay really high for gas so my country can be held up as the shiny example of transportation energy independence * cough * Cough * cough *. All the while I hace to visit the station more than necessary (due to poorer consumption of our gas with alcohol), but I do get clean air!! Really? Nobody talks about how burning ethanol increases NOX, you know the thing that causes acid rain. Though it produces less CO2 (a good thing in and of itself), doesn’t spew particulate matter like diesels (my main gripe against diesels, not to mention noise etc.), nobody mentions the NOX thing. That can’t be good!!!

Indiana Jones For Ethanol?

Hey – somebody was going to say it!