Flex Fuel Vehicles

What are flex fuel vehicles (FFV)? These vehicles run on E85, which is short of gasoline 85% ethanol 15% and can also run on regular gasoline, there are already several million of them in America. They are essentially the same as petrol cars we drive today, they just offer the possibility of using a combustible mixture.

Why the fuss? Well, ethanol can be created locally from products such as sugar cane, wheat, corn and timber, no oil from the Middle East. Brazilians already facing the problem of dependence on oil from the Middle East 10 years ago and decided to use their own excess supply of cane sugar to ethanol. They use these flex fuel vehicles (FFV) as fluently as we use our cars and gasoline are largely independent of measuring global oil prices and in the process of building their own agricultural industry by using their own sugar cane and E85 produced even less green house gases.

North Americans have a surplus of wheat and wood to make their own ethanol and it also would benefit local farmers and reduce dependence on foreign oil. local ethanol production companies are now seeing more investment demand exceeds supply. These companies and flex-fuel cars also have bi-partisan political support, so you can expect even more support for ethanol and FFV education companies (oil and gas that politicians oppose such funding Development)

GM recognized this as a viable solution in North America for our ills gas (and their sagging sales-see below) and develops the necessary upgrades to convert their cars to large FFV. Apparently it cost them about $ 250 to upgrade the largest car pricier fruits and vegetables, which makes more sense for luxury cars with profit margins higher when $ 250 is less a problem to deter buyers .

Toyota is on their heels to make up for this technology, but faces a tough battle that the price conscious smaller cars with lower profit margins can not absorb more than $ 250 easily. (Personally, I can not wait to buy a flex fuel Prius)

Who would have thought of GM as a leader in producing greener car for North Americans! Their motivation is driven by weak sales of more fuel efficient cars because of high gas prices of course. I think that is one of the advantages of high gas prices.

While this is a promising solution to our ills gas more research is necessary for certain oil and gas lackeys argue that it is too expensive to produce ethanol, which seems strange as cash hungry Brazil can do after the work of politicians involved. There will no doubt increased efficiency in ethanol production and low production costs with the support of private and public sectors of these companies. No disrespect to Brazil, if they can do it, so should we.

Mr. Fezziwig
Green Cars Now