Speaking at a management seminar, a senior Chrysler chemist cast aside political correctness and identified five groups standing in the way of America's alternative fuel future. Automotive News [sub] reports that Loren Beard fingered five Powers That Be who oppose E85 and suchlike. 1. OPEC (natch) 2. Big Oil ("It will cut into their market share") 3. Japanese automakers ("silver bullet car companies") 4. environmental groups (employ scare tactics against alternative fuels to raise money) and 5. aliens (my guess, Automotive News didn't say). While we await for suitable spin control on Chrysler's new blog (as if), suffice it to say Beard doesn't see any alternative to alternative fuels, other than continued dependence on foreign oil. So much for that, then.
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He didn’t mention the tax on foreign (sugar cane) alcohol? I’m sure he’s right about big oil, but he might have just said “Dick Cheney.”
Any idea what was behind this silly exercise? Is Beard a loose cannon, or is Chrysler trying to curry favor with … well, I can’t imagine who among the alcohol from corn boosters would have enough clout to make it worth their while. As a “green” I am totally against corn based ethanol.
Hilarious. The guy speaks as if they can produce E85 without using more energy than you get from it! Number five certainly could be aliens, but it could also be economics or logic.
The only thing ethanol is trying to replace is the housing bubble.
6. Consumers.
7. Thermodynamics.
The main thing standing in the way of alternate fuel is that it isn’t currently effective with respect to cost, land use, water use, and energy use. If alternate fuel could be produced in huge quantities at low cost and without destroying farmland, then producers, distributors, and consumers would jump all over it.
I now know who Nardelli will fire first.
Luther: I now know who Nardelli will fire first.
Fire???!!!
This guy has (Detroit-style) management potential written all over him! I think we’re looking at who Nardelli will promote first!!!
Just imagine if they could harness the energy in all the hot air they blow up each others arse.
No ethanol needed.
This Chemist must be in charge of creating plastics for Chrysler car interiors.
Ethanol is not good for Engines in Cold Winter like enviorment like most of Canada where I live, its also not good for fuel lines either as it “eats” them up! It also cost more to produce that its worth IMHO
If alternate fuel could be produced in huge quantities at low cost and without destroying farmland, then producers, distributors, and consumers would jump all over it.
FTFY