Posted by nick hull on February 21, 2008, 10:03 am
> US government missing the boat on alternative energy
> The idea that there is incredible potential behind the green economy of the
> future is exciting and hopeful. But the question today still remains, how
> much potential is there? Part of the answer depends on the choices
> governments make in supporting, for example, alternative energy. Currently in
> the US, that's been lacking.
What would help the most the fastest would be to convert from gas to
diesel cars. No chance, diesel fuel costs 50 cents a gallon more than
gas because of govt taxes. If they can't get this one simple thing
right, there is no hope until a crisis collapses the system.
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Posted by Ken Maltby on February 21, 2008, 10:00 am
>> US government missing the boat on alternative energy
>> The idea that there is incredible potential behind the green economy of
>> the
>> future is exciting and hopeful. But the question today still remains, how
>> much potential is there? Part of the answer depends on the choices
>> governments make in supporting, for example, alternative energy.
>> Currently in
>> the US, that's been lacking.
> What would help the most the fastest would be to convert from gas to
> diesel cars. No chance, diesel fuel costs 50 cents a gallon more than
> gas because of govt taxes. If they can't get this one simple thing
> right, there is no hope until a crisis collapses the system.
> Free men own guns - www(dot)geocities(dot)com/CapitolHill/5357/
government to step up to it's responsibility to solve all the world's
problems. He wants it done by abandoning the capitalistic economic
structure and adopting a centralized control of the economy/"Big
Business". He wants us to understand that his warmed over socialism
and communistic economic ideas renamed as "the green economy"
are the hope of the future. If only we would be as nurturing to the
Earth as the socialists in the UK. If only the U.S.S.R. had prevailed
all their great support of the Earth would have swept the world
and we would have a green sunshiny utopia to live in.
Luck;
Ken
Posted by clare at snyder.on.ca on February 21, 2008, 12:43 pm
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Until Bluteck has been proven, deisel is not the answer. You want to
breath the stink and particulates of the "average" deisel, be my
guest.
The reason diesel costs more per gallon in the US is not due so much
to taxes as to the "therm" content. Whatever fuel you buy, you are
buying "therms" (or BTUs) and the cost per "therm" s pretty well
constant between Gasoline, Diesel, Propane, Natural gas, and
electricity after you factor out transport costs.
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Posted by Steve Ackman on February 26, 2008, 8:05 pm
12:43:26 -0500, clare at snyder.on.ca, clare wrote:
> The reason diesel costs more per gallon in the US is not due so much
> to taxes as to the "therm" content. Whatever fuel you buy, you are
> buying "therms" (or BTUs) and the cost per "therm" s pretty well
> constant between Gasoline, Diesel, Propane, Natural gas, and
> electricity after you factor out transport costs.
It's supply and demand, driven in no small part by
the seasonal demand for heating oil. Here and now,
diesel is about $3.70 while gasoline is about $3.10.
Over the course of the last 14 months, it's been up
and down; at some point (last spring, IIRC) costing
LESS per gallon than gasoline for three or four months.
Most of that time, the per therm cost has been
significantly lower for diesel than for gasoline.
("Here" is northern NH, BTW.)
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> The idea that there is incredible potential behind the green economy of the
> future is exciting and hopeful. But the question today still remains, how
> much potential is there? Part of the answer depends on the choices
> governments make in supporting, for example, alternative energy. Currently in
> the US, that's been lacking.