Comments on: Ford delivers first-ever flex-fuel plug-in hybrid

By: HemiRoadRunner

HemiRoadRunner — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:18:52 +0000

Hay feeds cattle you dumb@$$.

By: jdasch1

jdasch1 — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:41:29 +0000

But that $6 box of cornflakes will feed you for a week….for $6! Quit listening to the food shortage because of E85 lie. The farming business is finally profitable and the taxpayer lands will start to be farmed instead of being paid not to farm. This coupled with new crops for Ethanol will be a great part of our getting out of the import oil age. Get the facts.

By: Brendino

Brendino — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:48:55 +0000

I dislike the defeatist attitudes about E85. No, it’s not perfect now, but continued research and effort can yield better refinement techniques. As the market demands more, more can be made. Look up vertical farming if you don’t believe that.

Why are we so bent on slamming the alternatives? “Oh, hydrogen is too expensive to produce.” “Oh, plug-ins will only tax the power grid.” You’ve gotta start somewhere.

All I wanna know is why this will take until 2013 to be released to the public. My guess is that it has to be cost. But if they could bump the release up even two years they would be in such a good place.

By: 02WRXPSM

02WRXPSM — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:29:11 +0000

E85 is dead. The US can’t produce enough ethanol to even use as a 10% additive for emissions reduction without driving up food prices. Corn feeds cattle, cattle feeds people, the price gets passed along to consumers. Corn is in EVERYTHING you eat — a friend of mine has severe corn allergies, and he has to watch for it constantly and eat only a select group of foods that he knows are corn-free. If we divert much more corn to ethanol production than we are now, consumers are going to be pissed; $6.00 for a box of cornflakes is not going to fly.

Lots of pie-in-the-sky talk about making ethanol from algae, grass, weeds, garbage and beets is being thrown around, but you have to make a process that scales up to industrial-size production; making it in a lab or backyard does not count.

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:05:01 +0000

xyunya: you’re on to something. How about a tap next to the plug in so that both the vehicle and the driver can get juiced at the same time?

By: jumpoffit

jumpoffit — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:21:47 +0000

E85, nice- too bad the nearest station for one of those is 4 states away from me :-/

By: xyunya

xyunya — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:30:39 +0000

Well, this is really revolutionary: if you have severe hangover and liquor store is closed just suck some from the tank!

By: Pauly

Pauly — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:23:14 +0000

Why so long? The Volt is going to be out in 2 years.

By: maxcar

maxcar — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:52:51 +0000

5-10 years. just in time to be outdated.