Brian Lane wrote in a message to All:
 BL>   I like the idea of alcohol as fuel because we are then not 
 BL> dependant on external resources to run our infrastructure 
 BL> (trucking, etc). And because independant fuel producers would 
 BL> pop up all over the place (as well as personal use producers).
I've heard of other alternatives,  too,  like using soybean oil -- the 
exhaust is supposed to smell like peanut butter,  according to a news report 
a while back.
 BL> With all this garbage about mandating sales of electric 
 BL> vehicles, etc. I think it would be more productive to mandate 
 BL> alcohol capable systems. (although I balk at the thought of the 
 BL> government mandating anything, but if they have to they should 
 BL> at least make it something useful).
 BL>   (boy, now I'm gonna get flamed by the electric car folks...) 
No,  you're gonna get flamed (if mildly as I'm not really into it...) for not 
standing on your principles.  You got it right the first time up there where 
you say "garbage about mandating",  that's exactly it -- it's garbage.
We don't need the government dictating this stuff to us,  do we?  After all,  
look at what a good job they did about airbags,  where that 1 year old kid 
recently got decapitated.
How'd you like to have been that mother,  eh?  How about the bureaucrat that 
made that ultimate decision (that said cars should be equipped that way) be 
put in that car,  with the corpse of this kid and made to sit there for a 
while and reflect on the wisdom of his ways?  How about that,  huh?
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