How To Avert The Ethanol Disaster

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How To Avert The Ethanol Disaster

By: GARKO

While the hysteria continues to mount about global warming all sorts of “solutions” are being advanced and some are more harmful than others and some are even more harmful than fossil fuels!. For those that don't know, biofuels are alternative energy sources derived from living matter, as opposed to fossil fuels, such as oil, which are derived from nonliving matter. The most common biofuel is a blend of gasoline called E85, which means it's 15% gasoline and 85% ethanol. But the actual ratio is subject to change due to the outside temperatrue and it might be better named E70-85. 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 fact that E85 needs 15-30% gasoline in the mixture is not the major problem, that factor is really not such a big deal. If everyone was using E85 and the use of gasoline got cut by 70% that would be a tremendous advantage. .
The real problems with Ethanol follow… 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 As a result of that situation you end up with three new sets of problems: lack of land on which to grow corn and other staples, soaring food prices and, yes, potential starvation of the poor.
Don’t think that this is just affecting poor people though. If you eat food then it affects YOU. 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. Isn't it the poor that our friends on the environmentally-friendly left always want to help by taking our hard-earned tax dollars and redistributing them to the needy? The biofuel solution, pushed hard by the same folks is hurting the poor, hungry, underprivileged people of the world the most.
With food prices causing the poor to become even more destitute, the government will inevitably suck more out of our paychecks while anyone who complains about it will be hit as “unsensitive and selfish” . If I was inclined towards conspiracy theories I would think that perhaps this was all being done on purpose.
By 2030, the world population is expected to rise to such a high level that a 50 percent increase in food production would be needed. By 2080, it would have to double. But the urgent movement to biofuels - allegedly environmentally friendly - means that an increasing amount of farm land had been reallocated to fuel rather than food.
The rise in demand has already reflected by the significant increase in the prices of basic commodities, especially wheat, since 2005.
Biofuels have been promoted as a solution for lowering the toxic fuel emissions pumped out by fossil fuels but recent research have been skeptical of their impact when all aspects, for instance the use of fertilizers on the crops, aretaken into account. Critics have been angered by the loss of tropical rainforests, which have been levelled to allow farms to grow biofuel crops.
Laying waste to forest landDeforestation has been estimated to account for approximately 18 percent of the planet's greenhouse gas emissions and many experts consider the practice of wiping out forest land in order to grow 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 providing information at a low price which folks can use in their garage or wherever to create a small device which infuses hydrogen into the gas/air mixture that their vehicle runs on.
The process makes bite sized particles out of the ones that the engine uses as fuel. So the engine gets to use considerably more of the fuel.
By doing this you can reasonably expect to lower your gas consumption by 30-50% or significantly more. Those particles "musta" been pretty "blankin'" big in some systems before. But with WATER4GAS they are made usable so you can lower your gas consumption.
It also helps to lower emissions significantly.
This information has been purchased by over 9000 car owners already and happy members number about 99%! So how about you?

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