The silent/self paced version of "American don't have the freedom to choose the fuels they can use". Alternative, cheaper, greener, non-petroleum based fuels are available now and possible to use in your vehicle now. Americans don't have the freedom to use these fuels. If they did, Americans could reduce their costs, increase their car's performance and reduce their car's pollution. But, if we educate ourselves we can ask the car companies to give us these capabilities, and we can vote to have laws that give us these freedoms. These freedoms wil also reduce our need for foreign oil, clean our air, provide untold number of new jobs, and increase our national security.
We don't have the freedom to chose fuels for our cars like Chinese, Brazilians and many Europeans do. And we can change that. Is it worth it? We start the discussion.
References to carry you further are in the "Falco References... "file -- on this site. You can also look at the voice-over slide presentation "How to get off oil" also on this site. The "Open Fuel Standards" site also discuss things you can do.
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Are you getting a fair deal at the pump? Alternative, cheaper, greener, non-petroleum based fuels are possible now.
1. Americans love their cars so
much they can be easily fooled
Ford and GM told us 100 years ago that
alcohol was the fuel of choice for their cars.
Bob Falco, PhD
Director
Institute for Energy Resourcefulness
2. Who Am I?
Robert Falco, PhD
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Michigan State University
Director of the Institute
for Energy Resourcefulness
3. Your coffee
When you buy coffee or make a cup, how
would you feel if you were told that you
could only drink it black.
4. Your TV
Imagine buying a TV and when you get
home finding out that the only station it
can view is CSPAN!
5. Your computer
What if you bought an Apple computer
and the warrantee said you couldn‟t use
Microsoft software on it.
6. Your house
What if your mortgage restricted you
from making improvements to your
house?
7. Your car
What if you bought a car and were told
that the only fuel you could use in it was
gasoline?
8. There are many Spark Ignition
Internal Combustion Engine Fuels
Gasoline
Ethanol/gasoline mixtures: E10,
E20, E30….E85, E100
Methanol/gasoline mixtures: M10,
M20, M30…M85, M100
Blends of gasoline, ethanol and
methanol, called GEM mixtures
Butanol
9. For fuels that have the same
engine response as E85
Fuel (same # BTUs) Energy
cost
Prices
Corn Ethanol/Gasoline(E85) $3.85
Sugarcane Ethanol/gas (E85) $2.85
vary Methanol M85 $3.00
Gasoline/Ethanol/Methanol - GEM (40- $3.10
greatly 10-50)
GEM (20-30-50) $3.15
! Cellulosic Ethanol GEMS $4.00
Natural Gas produced Ethanol GEMS $3.00
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15. Would you consider yourself
free to:
Use milk and sugar in your coffee?
Tune your TV to any channel you want?
Use other software in your computer?
Put air conditioning in your house?
Then why not to choose the fuel your car
runs on?
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17. How do you feel about the
restriction on your fuel freedom?
You know ethanol is out there.
You may know that in California for 15 years they ran a
successful methanol program, using over 15,000 vehicles.
Methanol can be available again at pumps quickly.
In China, Brazil and Europe there are tens of thousands of
cars running on methanol and ethanol.
If you knew that cars „tuned‟ for these fuels would run even
more efficiently, and cleanly than on gasoline, then you
would realize your restricted by more than just price.
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20. Lotus
Examples of cars running on ethanol,
methanol and/or gasoline in Europe
Saab
21. Winston Churchill said:
“The Americans will always do the
right thing…after they have exhausted
all the alternatives.”
The time has come to get off foreign
oil!
22. Cars can be made, or converted,
to run on any mixture of the 3 fuels.
We can lower our pump price.
We can cut the noose of foreign oil
We can have cleaner air
We can lower greenhouse gases
Conversion costs are ~ $100
23. Gaining this freedom means
more money in your pocket
Cheaper transportation
Lower medical bills (cancer, asthma, etc.)
More American jobs
Methanol can be made from our natural gas and our wastes
Ethanol is made from our corn, sugar beets, and sugarcane.
More new high paying jobs
Lower taxes needed for defending supplies
24. There is a bill in congress
that can do this for us!
You need to support this bill to gain this freedom.
It is called the
Congressman Shimkus and a number of others in the House, and
Senators Cantwell and Lugar have sponsored H.R. 1687 and S.
1603, the Open Fuels Standard Act of 2011. This is a diverse
coalition of industry, national security and transportation
interests.
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27. MORE INFORMATION
See the reference list on this SlideShare site.
Listen to the voice–over “Methanol can get us off
oil” – along with other presentations on this site.
Go to the Open Fuel Standard website