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To: JDN who wrote (155586)	1/24/2006 8:28:36 AM
From: Sdgla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793759

This was buried on page 3 of my local paper. E85...An alternative fuel nobody knows about ? Ford, GM promoting 'flex-fuel' vehicles By Karen Lundegaard, The Wall Street Journal via AP Ford and GM combined plan to produce 650,000 vehicles this year that can use E85, which currently costs about $2 a gallon. Vehicles that run on ethanol - which is distilled from corn and grain - are less fuel efficient than gasoline, in the order of 25 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The average cost to operate a Chevrolet Monte Carlo, for example, using E85 is $1,578 compared with $1,344 on gasoline alone, according to the Energy Department's fueleconomy.gov. The gasoline version emits an estimated 7.6 tons of greenhouse gas per year compared with 5.6 tons for E85. Only about 600 gasoline stations out of some 170,000 in the U.S. carry E85. Most are concentrated in the Midwest - with roughly 200 in Minnesota alone. Still, the total number more than doubled in 2005 and could increase fourfold this year, says Phillip Lampert, executive director of the National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition, a group that promotes ethanol use. "This has been an uphill battle," he says, but in the past several months, "people have begun to take notice." dailynews.com

To: JDN who wrote (155586)	1/24/2006 12:26:38 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793759

I agree. Liberals should have their own business, and then the less boneheaded of them would "get it"....I've found that a good many of folks of the liberal mind, work for the government, or cities (as in teachers) or other government entities. It is no wonder they don't understand business. They earn their money and are paid by an never ending fountain of government money....Small business owners know up close and personally exactly where the money comes from. And that doesn't mean they get off work at 4:30 or 5 pm either.