I was listening to NPR this morning, and heard the story about alternative fuels in Brazil.
They had cars that ran on alcohol! Their fueling stations all have four types of fuel available! They are now making flex-fuel cars that can run on either gas or alcohol! Arg!
How can we consider ourself this technologically advanced country when we’re being whupped, whupped I say, in car technology by Brazil?
And I’m not even going to go into the fact that the Japanese car companies have once again served the American car companies up for breakfast with their hybrids.
Okay, I am going to go into that. What kind of dweebs are running these American car companies? Where is the so-called American pioneer spirit that forges new frontiers in technology?
And how come my space key is all sticky?
*sigh*
I’m going to go back to supporting products designed in Canada now.
Too much petrol in the keyboard?
See? Alcohol would have evaporated harmlessly!
Brother Billy Carter was a big proponent of gasohol, you know.
Hey, didn’t you used to look like him?
At the right time of day (or night, more likely) and in the appropriate light, I still do. But mostly I manage to hide it through clever use of cosmetics.
Because many Americans only care about how large and shiny something is. Loud is nice too. No one in the world can beat us at making gigantic cars.
You did not even mention biodiesel, which these stations in Brazil are going to start selling in the next couple of years. A fuel that can be made from just about anything oily, soybean oil, corn oil, used fryer grease, probably liposuction waste and the run off from a large law firm. Is there anything we have more of in the US?
I refuse to even speculate about your space key, but I will say that and I are loving our Prius.
I was very near inheriting a 1980 diesel Mercedes a while back.
I would have been that close to having a car that smelled like a Chinese restaurant.
Plus, the Rennaissance Tropica and Corbin Sparrow went out of business.
Guess I’ll struggle through with my measly 35 mpg for a while longer, until those used Priuses start hitting the AutoTrader.
“Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads.”
So what happens when Bush & CO are left behind when the rapture comes and they’re all wrapped up in the Oil Industry? Does Brazil then become the big superpower and the USA falls into “third world” status>
This is why you shouldn’t listen to NPR. It just gets you worked up.