Scott Benson

An Alternative to America’s Gasoline Crisis

(Brazil is not 60% biofuel. Brazil is VERY proud of their oil industry (Petrobras) which has had some great success in the last few years. Contradictory to popular belief, all Brazilian cars are NOT run on sugarcane ethanol -- only about 20% of them do. That leaves the 80% that run on OIL. More specifically, diesel. 55% of Brazil's engines run on diesel. This isn't hard to believe. Brazil has lots of buses, trains and trucks, and doesn't have "suburbs" persay. Brazil runs on oil, just like everyone else.)

An Alternative to America’s Gasoline Crisis

I have been working with alternative-fueled vehicles since 1992 -- E85 and CNG primarily. The "users"/"clients" of mine who drove the CNG vehicles under realistic conditions did not like the CNG vehicles. While they ran, the lack of filling stations was problem #1. Amoco/BP paid half a million dollars each for the fast-fill stations that they eventually closed, cause they made no sense. CNG has had its day, and it failed. The U.S. has been on a natural gas production platueau for 30 years, and every new well depletes faster than the last. LNG is going to be very costly. CNG is a great fuel. Too bad there is no "there" there in terms of supply.