Recent content by M John Galt

don't get personal with me you little s***, or you'll get the same right back at ya. stick to the subject Show one example in recent history in an affluent western country

I agree with Martin. I have no problem driving a RHD vehicle in a LHD world. I have a LHD pick-up I occasionally drive, and I have no problem switching between it and my RHD cruiser. Quotes: Heinlein - Specialization is for Insects

The energy to create a vehicle is approximately 1/3 of the amount of energy it will use in it's life buying a good used vehicle and getting the most out of it is almost always better for the planet

Bullfudge. The price of diesel will level off around $1.50 / liter and the price of gasoline will continue to climb. If you're holding your breath expecting the govt to cut fuel taxes and increase the taxes on their rich supporters, then you will go blue in the face and pass out cold. REAL...

Good reason to worry. Even if VO production was maxed out, assuming there is enough land, water and fertilizer, it could only meet less than 10% of the total demand for diesel fuel. When the sweet crude is depleted diesel fuel will be made from heavy oil, oil sand, and coal, and there's...

The rating is for an inefficient gasoline Landcruiser. One could expect the diesel to be half that.

Why bother trying to synthesize ethanol? UMass researchers develop cheaper, “green” gasoline — No, that’s not a typo: A team of researchers at UMass, Amherst, led by chemical engineer George Huber, has developed a new process to refine hydrocarbons from cellulose. This “green” petroleum can be...

yeah sure, whatever carry on with your ethanol fantasies

Yeah right.... and potentially one can make biodiesel from a wide variety of non-food crops like jatropha and algae. Don't hold your breath waiting for some pie-in-the-sky promise of cheap fuel. The biofuel market is dominated by people looking for a cheap source of fuel for their fuel...

One of the most expensive places seems to be Teeside UK at $5.64 US per US gal and the cheapest seems to be Caracas Venezuela at $0.14 per gal. That's quite a spread in price.

I used to own a big honkin' v8 4x4 gas guzzler that might get 12 mpg with a tailwind. I replaced it with a 4 banger turbo diesel that does everything the gas guzzler could do even better, at 2x the mpg.

Behind the Run on Rice Despite bumper crops in Vietnam and India, export limits and bans have created a global shortage and driven up prices by Pallavi Gogoi At the Costco in San Francisco, rice is all the rage. Not long after the 10 a.m. opening on Apr. 24, the warehouse club...

Chill out dude. I don't use ethanol, nor do it think it's a good idea. I merely posted the information. Why would you assume I was promoting ethanol? I also won't use virgin oil or BD made from it. IMHO only recycled cooking oil should be used for fuel.

Once the nuclear fusion technology gets here... and once cheap PV solar gets here... all this politically motivated ethanol scamming will be history

Of course. In an earlier message I qualified my comments for grain ethanol in a N.American context. It works economically in Brazil because they have a tropical climate where sugar cane grows like a weed. Even sugar beets can't equal that.