Ethanol actually costs us about $12.00 per gallon! The oil companies know that ethanol will never compete with gasoline!
I have a suggestion. Let’s bring the Ford, Chevrolet and Chrysler cars with diesel engines, sold in Europe, to America. They get double the mileage of our gasoline engine cars. The Ford Focus gets 76.4 miles per gallon (www.ford.co.uk). The Chevrolet Cruze gets 51.4 miles per gallon (www.chevrolet.co.uk).
When you refine crude oil to produce diesel, you get about four more gallons per barrel. Combined this would cut our fuel consumption 60%.
Diesel engines run just as well on biodiesel, a combination of diesel and vegetable oil. We pay thousands of farmers to idle millions of acres of farmland to help keep farm prices up. This is called “the pick-program”. Instead we should pay them to produce vegetable oil to help power our vehicles.
Mass produced vegetable oil could easily compete with petroleum. Instead of giving billions of dollars a year to Arab countries that support the terrorists who kill our soldiers, we could support our farmers. The factories that produce ethanol could be converted to produce vegetable oil.
This plan would end our dependency on foreign oil, reduce our trade deficit, clean up the environment, stabilize our economy, help our farmers, protect our soldiers and give jobs to Americans who are out of work!
Our congressmen and senators who are addicted to the oil companies PAC money will only support this plan if millions of Americans demand it. Our biggest threat isn’t the Russians, the Chinese, Muslim terrorists or illegal aliens. It is the PAC money that buys our politicians!
The events taking place in the Middle East is all the excuse the oil companies need to bankrupt our fragile economy. We must put this plan into action before they raise our fuel prices to $10.00 a gallon or more.
“We” own this country, not the politicians and not the oil companies. Our soldiers’ blood paid for this country and continues to keep it free. We owe it to our veterans to become fuel sufficient. The future safety and security of the American people should never be left in the hands of foreigners!
This plan would heal our economy, protect our jobs and make our country stronger and safer. I call this plan the “Patriots Energy Bill”.
Every American can be a Paul Revere. Call your congressman, senators, the press and everybody you know and demand the passage of the Patriots Energy Bill.
Gary C. Brown
