Has anyone read this book? I just finished it up and I am having a hard time disagreeing with this guy, someone help me figure out where his plan doesn't work.
Basically the author, world renowned engineer Robert Zubrin is saying that the government should very soon mandate all cars in the U.S. be flex fuel vehicles. He says in the book any car can become flex fuel with under 500 dollars in parts. If we do this we can stop funding the Saudis who are the true enemy we are fighting in the middle east. Our farmers here at home can grow the corn we need to produce ethanol so we can run all of our cars off of e85.
The book spends a lot of time dealing with how the Saudis are the worst people over the middle east and how our unending funding of oil money to them is fueling them to support terrorist organizations.
He also talks about Brazil and how they are starting the policy he wants to have our own government enact and how successful it has been.
Also, I got this off another forum I spend some time on.. It's something I've been thinking about recently but haven't had the time to blog on it or post a thread.. so anyway here's my say.
It would suck for the gas stations... But gas prices are already ridiculous, and it would open more jobs relating to e85.
What do you guys think of this plan?
Basically the author, world renowned engineer Robert Zubrin is saying that the government should very soon mandate all cars in the U.S. be flex fuel vehicles. He says in the book any car can become flex fuel with under 500 dollars in parts. If we do this we can stop funding the Saudis who are the true enemy we are fighting in the middle east. Our farmers here at home can grow the corn we need to produce ethanol so we can run all of our cars off of e85.
The book spends a lot of time dealing with how the Saudis are the worst people over the middle east and how our unending funding of oil money to them is fueling them to support terrorist organizations.
He also talks about Brazil and how they are starting the policy he wants to have our own government enact and how successful it has been.
Also, I got this off another forum I spend some time on.. It's something I've been thinking about recently but haven't had the time to blog on it or post a thread.. so anyway here's my say.
It would suck for the gas stations... But gas prices are already ridiculous, and it would open more jobs relating to e85.
What do you guys think of this plan?