More on the Kind of Car the US Needs

Previously I talked about the kind of car we need here in the USA. In short, a Flex-Fuel Plug-in Electric Hybrid. A Hybrid, like the Toyota Prius, but with a Flex-Fuel engine (can use ethanol either E-100 (100% ethanol) or the much advertise E-85 (85% ethanol)), and the extra battery capacity to be able to be plugged in overnight to give it far extra range, enough that it can easily get 100 MPG. It occurs to me that we can probably get even better results using a diesel PHEV, if the manufacturer provides a vegetable oil tank with a computer to control when it uses the vegetable oil automatically and keep it warm. (You can’t just poor vegetable oil into the gas tank of a diesel car, but the engine doesn’t need modified, it will be ready for the vegetable oil once it gets warmed up, and if the oil itself stays a liquid, and if used is filtered before putting into the vegetable oil tank.) The MPG of such a car would undoubtedly reach high levels, especially if we use biodiesel in place of regular diesel… well it wouldn’t improve the MPG by using biodiesel, but it would greatly reduce our dependence on foreign, terrorism sponsoring, oil. The move to biodiesel would require the US to allow American farmers to stop being behind most of the other farmers in the world, including Canada, in allowing the farming of hemp which would allow a greater variety of plastics to be made without oil. While the ability to get used vegetable oil is free or very cheap right now, if lots of people went to the restaurants and asking for their used oil, they may start charging. However, this would probably still be cheaper then gas now, and more importantly we can tell OPEC to shove it and find another way to sponsor terrorism, and keep most if not all the money spend on fuels in the US and our allies.
If we can’t get a biodeisel PHEV, at least give us a Flex-Fuel PHEV. Hopefully the big three and Japan are listening.

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