On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:26:49 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 09:09:51 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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When Oregon mandated oxygenated (ethanol) gas in 2004?, my gas
mileage
went down 15%. If I have to burn 15% more gas when using 10%
ethanol,
how can that -possibly- be better for the environment or the
attempt
to stop importing foreign oil for fuel? Especially when ethanol
has
been proven to consume more energy to create than it gives back?
I'd like to whup these idiots upside the haid, I would.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygenate

So, how do you reduce smog when using 15% more fuel? It's all PC
bull****. You add 10% ethanol to fuel and lose 15% fuel mileage, so
you're still down 5% PLUS you have to make and buy the ethanol.
Typical Algoreesque scheme, I tell ya.

This morning I found out that it was the Oregon Global Warming
Commission (what a farce) which caused us to be strapped with
ethanol
infected gasoline.

Meanwhile, the corn going to make ethanol causes food prices to rise
and all the while, the gov't is giving corn and ethanol producers
windfall profits to make it.


"This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper"

T.S.Eliot, "The Hollow Men"

Not I, sir. We aren't victims, no sir.


I can't remember who to attribute this to, but it's my favorite
sentiment on life:

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather
one should aim to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, glass of
Scotch in the other, your body thoroughly used up, totally worn out
and screaming "WOO HOO! Man, what a ride!"

--
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy
is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our
creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
-- Gilda Radner