This is the same BS that the promoters of the corn ethanol boondoggle have been saying for years. However with hundreds of ethanol plants operating all over the corn belt, the cost of ethanol is still tied to the price of corn and ethanol production could never be commercially viable without government subsidies and tax breaks from planting the seed to the gas pump. With a major drought in the corn belt this summer corn prices will soar and the ethanol lobby will be howling for even more government bailouts and subsidies.
Soon the nobama minions will replace the military tanks with converted Volts. There is no end to their stupidity and corrosiveness. The only end will be when they are thrown out of their positions and placed permanently in prison.
The US Military is the key driver of new technology, and indirectly America’s future wealth. That’s because the military is usually the only customer willing to pay the initial price. When integrated circuits were first invented they cost $1,000 each. The first customer was the military which used them in a new bomber. Now similar ICs cost pennies. A viable biofuel is certainly possible and will likely involve open ocean grown genetically engineered algae. The military is certain to be the first customer. Yes, the military funds a huge number of expensive technology flops, but every failure is one step closer to hitting the jackpot. While windmills and solar could never fuel our mobile military, algae biofuel is extremely promising.
You got that right!
Had the opportunity to top off my tank at a station near Lake Murray in South Carolina that offered ethanol free gasoline.
Half a tankful was all that I could squeeze into my SUV. Just HALF!
512 miles to get home. always have to make a stop to refuel at about 360 miles.
This time, I got 460 miles out of the tank!
CAFE is continually raising the mileage but also demanding we use crap for fuel which shortens the MPG of vehicles.
As I was refueling, I remembered a recent NCIS episode where one of the agents is gushing about a Navy jet fighter using bio-fuel as the wave of the future or some such BS.
Then I thought to myself, wonder how long a jet fighter can stay up with crap for fuel? If my car gets a reduction in mileage this drastic, how much extra fuel is going to be needed, and extra pilots needed, to maintain the requisite number of aircraft aloft to protect a carrier group?
Our service academies should be closed down as they no longer serve the purpose of training officers to execute their duties in the best interest of accomplishing a mission and more importantly the lives of their subordinates.
And speaking of NCIS, it is now on my "Turn-this-crap-off-list" with their constant pandering to the liberal agenda. It was thoroughly disgusting to watch an episode where Special Agent Gibbs, supposedly a former Marine Gunny, helped a homosexual, who had been recruited by another homosexual(who was murdered-can you say hate crime?), to get into the Corps.