How about converting your car to run on Ethanol and, then, joining the Park Slope Ethanol Cooperative? Yes? No? Maybe? Well, here’s some info about it:
Our plan is to build a station in Brooklyn and run our vehicles on 100% ethanol. Our goal is to make the fuel from locally-based sources. We need people willing to participate in a revolution in energy. Volunteer help is appreciated but not required.
You car can be inexpensively made to run flexibly on either alcohol fuel or gas. Alcohol was the original fuel used in internal combustion engines. The needed conversion poses no danger to your car or to its current performance on gasoline…Help us reduce greenhouse gases and say no to the oil companies.
Kick-off meetings are at the Park Slope Food Coop at 783 Union Street on Tuesday (9/16) and Friday (9/25) at 7:30PM. Membership in the Coop isn’t necessary to attend.
4 responses so far ↓
1 ScottC // Sep 11, 2008 at 1:29 pm
While I love the idea of developing alternative sources of fuel, corn based ethanol is a fraud of epic proportions. It takes 9/10 of a gallon of oil to produce 1 gallon of ethanol. There is virtually no savings in oil consumption at all.
Now, if a different feed stock is used, say sugar cane (1 gallon of oil input = 10 gallons of ethanol) , sugar beets (slightly less than sugar cane) then it would be worth it. However, we still need to determine the effect of overall impact on the world’s food supply.
2 Parker // Sep 11, 2008 at 2:48 pm
It would be even more fuel efficient to just take the public transportation.
3 When we all work together… « Living the American Green // Sep 13, 2008 at 11:58 pm
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4 Phil // Sep 18, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Whoa, whoa, why ethanol? Tri-State Biodiesel makes gasoline out of used cooking oil, and is supposed to be opening a plant in Red Hook. No need to reinvent the wheel.
http://www.tristatebiodiesel.com/