Help Us Avoid The Ethanol Disaster

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Help Us Avoid The Ethanol Disaster

By: GARKO

As the myth around global warming begins to unravel and Operation Desperation sets in, it's important for the public to know why biofuels aren't the answer to solving global warming. Biofuels have achieved a great deal of popularity but that is mainly because the politicians have been pushing it hard along with the media. . The most prevalent variety of biofuel is Ethanol made from corn and combined with gasoline into something called E85, and this is a mixture in a ratio of 15:85 gasoline:ethanol. However, the gasoline and ethanol content changes depending on the season. During the Winter months you need more gasoline in the mixture to ensure the fuel works properly, so E85 is at least 70% ethanol.
The need for gasoline then, would drop by 70% or more and that would be a tremendous advantage…not as good as having no more need for gasoline, but better than what we have right now for sure. So that is not the problem with Ethanol, particulary.
Here are some real problems with Ethanol The shift to biofuels is causing a global food shortage beyond the usual. The series of bad results from the decision to use ethanol as alternative fuel are fascinating, almost like a Rube Goldberg invention gone horribly wrong. Most ethanol is derived from corn. Corn therefore has huge demand. Therefore farmers are growing more corn than wheat and soy. So now instead of having not enough corn you have not enough corn, soy and wheat… it gets worse This brings on problems of great magnitude in the lack of land on which to grow corn and other staples, soaring food prices and, yes, potential starvation of the poor.
Anyone walking around in a human body needs food and that means that this situation affects you directly. Just as higher oil prices have caused the price of goods to increase due to higher transportation costs, what corn gets on the market has shot up unprecedentedly in the last few months - around 30% already this year – all because of the demand for biofuels. What is odd about all this is that the environmentalists, who are politically situated on the far left for the most part, have always been chastised as “bleeding hearts” because of their desire to help all the underprivileged at the expense of hard working middle class people and also the wealthy, like modern day Robin Hood.s Get ready to be gouged even more as Hatians are eating mud cookies because they can't afford corn and residents of Kenya are rioting over food.
While the price of food continues to skyrocket which makes it even harder for the poor people of the world to get any decent nutrition, you can count on more tax dollars being pulled from your paycheck to cover the cost. Wow! It is almost as if it was all designed that way with malice aforethought by the rich and the elite.
By 2030, the world population is predicted to rise to such a high level that a fifty percent increase in food production would be needed. In 70 years based on current projections, it would have to double. But the rush to biofuels - allegedly good for the environment - translates in reality to a reallocation of farm land to growing food for energy purposes.
The increase in demand has been causative of the significant rise in the prices of fundamental crops, especially wheat, since 2005.
Biofuels have been promoted as a handling for lowering the greenhouse fuel emissions released by fossil fuels but recent studies have questioned how much benefit that they might have when all factors, such as the use of pesticides and such on the crops, arefactored into the equation. Critics have been angered by the loss of tropical rainforests, which have been cleared to allow farms to grow biofuel crops.
Laying waste to forest landDeforestation has been found to cause roughly 18% of world greenhouse gas emissions and many environmentalists view the practice of wiping out forest land for the purposes of growing crops for biofuel to be insane.
With ethanol costing about the same as gasoline, there are two possible scenarios ahead of us. If those of us that are educated about ethanol choose not to buy the product because of the side-effects, maybe the decreased demand will help food prices to drop.
Unfortunately, ethanol is a government-subsidized product and they can pump more dollars into lowering the price further, which will spark interest in the new fuel and increase demand. It's a no-win situation for the informed consumer. Our only hope is that global warming is truly found to be a hoax so we can go back living normal lives without fear of potentially starving our neighbors every time we fill up. Unless there is a third alternative.
But here is something that IS happening right now and getting results!
WATER4GAS is offering information at a low price which individuals can use in their garage or wherever to create a small gizmo which instills hydrogen into the gasoline/air mixture that their vehicle runs on.
What this does is make bite sized particles out of the ones that the system uses as fuel. So the engine gets to use a lot more of it.
By doing this you can reasonably expect to improve your fuel economy by thirty to fifty percent or significantly more. Those goblets must have been pretty "blankin'" huge in some systems before. But with W4G they are made consumable so you can improve your fuel economy.
It also helps make emissions substantially cleaner.
This package of info has been purchased by over NINE THOUSAND car owners already and the percentage of happy customers is about 99%! So how about you?

Article Source: http://www.find-investment-advice.com

Songwriter, activist, consumer advocate and activist, GARKO, shows you tips on how to lower gas consumption and that a water powered car is now reality and is one of the best ways to boost your mpg For a list of current gasoline prices in your neighborhood email garko@startlingdiscoveries.info

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