On 02/09/2011 01:39 PM, Lehanover@aol.com wrote:

Send the entire energy department home. Established in 75 to eliminate our dependence on offshore oil.

 

Eliminate all farm subsidies. Phase out oil imports to zero over the next 7 years. Drill here. Drill now.

Now, Lynn, how are the politicians going to manipulate and control us if they do that?  Next thing, you'll be asking for a simple and progressive tax system like the Fair Tax, which doesn't force every working American to become an accountant once a year.

That being said, the Swift Fuel is not alcohol (from what I can tell).  There are several way to derive fuel from organic stocks, the ethanol fermentation process just being one of the more familiar.  Several are more efficient and produce better fuel, but lack the "I gave money to the Monsanto" benefit.

The greenies are a bunch of liberal arts airheads, for the most part.  I was helping out my son's middle-school "Future City" team.  We were at a salvage yard, picking up materials.  One of the kids picked up a chunk of metal and said, "That's heavy."  I said, "That's because it is lead."  He literally dropped it and started SCREAMING.  He had been taught to equate lead with cyanide.  That's the greeny perspective.  They fill the cabinet of the worst President in American history.  And that is why 100LL is going away.

Lead or no, the typical high performance airplane still needs the octane, and no one has yet been able to produce a suitable replacement at a reasonable costs.  I don't know if Swift fuel is the answer, but it seems promising.  I fully expect the inventors cost estimation could be off by 50%.  But who knows.  He is at least demonstrating that the stuff works.