Author by : Lance Winslow
Ford is planning on ramping up production on their mini-SUV escape models and GM has announced producing flex fuel models, which can also run on either gasoline or E85. If the major US Automakers can agree on E85 and make cars, trucks and SUVs to run on E85, then we can bring it from Midwest US Ethanol Refineries to East Coast via rail and CA to be used. These markets have many environmentally conscious folks who would partake in a change for the common good. Is it possible with the tremendous infrastructure requirements to get all this E85 to market? Will we have enough?
We must also allow for pre-established fuel dealers to offer it; that is to say those fuel cards locations, Sunoco, BP and Travel Centers with incentives as pre-described in Lance Winslow’s report:
http://oilchangeguys.com/oilbbs/index.php?
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Once the Ethanol E85 is brought in we will need storage facilities and since refineries have space, we should build the fuel storage tanks there. However for refinery storage to be built quickly to coincide with the fact ramp up of E85 cars that both GM and Ford are planning to build; there must be fast track EIRs and incentives for jobbers and wholesalers too.
We must also be cognizant that the big Oil boys need to have an option to play with us here at home in our sand box and learn to share the plastic shovels with all. And if it makes sense economically for them, of course they will. Don’t worry everyone gets paid, that’s the plan and the benefactor of all this collaboration will be the American People, as we kick our addiction to foreign oil. Consider this in 2006.
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[tags]E85 Ethanol, Alternative to Gasoline, flex fuels, midwest, incentives, refineries, ford, gm[/tags]
