Americans love their cars so much they can be easily fooled

Ford and GM told us 100 years ago that alcohol was the fuel of choice for their cars.

Bob Falco, PhDDirector

Institute for Energy Resourcefulness

Who Am I?Robert Falco, PhD Professor of Mechanical EngineeringMichigan State University

Director of the Institute for Energy Resourcefulness

Your coffeeWhen you buy coffee or make a cup, how would you feel if you were told that you could only drink it black.

Your TVImagine buying a TV and when you get home finding out that the only station it can view is CSPAN!

Your computerWhat if you bought an Apple computer and the warrantee said you couldn’t use Microsoft software on it.

Your houseWhat if your mortgage restricted you from making improvements to your house?

Your carWhat if you bought a car and were told that the only fuel you could use in it was gasoline?

There are many Spark Ignition Internal Combustion Engine Fuels

GasolineEthanol/gasoline mixtures: E10,

E20, E30….E85, E100Methanol/gasoline mixtures: M10,

M20, M30…M85, M100Blends of gasoline, ethanol and

methanol, called GEM mixturesButanol

For fuels that have the same engine response as E85 Fuel (same # BTUs) Energ

y costCorn Ethanol/Gasoline(E85) $3.85Sugarcane Ethanol/gas (E85) $2.85Methanol M85 $3.00Gasoline/Ethanol/Methanol - GEM (40-10-50)

$3.10

GEM (20-30-50) $3.15Cellulosic Ethanol GEMS $4.00Natural Gas produced Ethanol GEMS $3.00

Prices vary

greatly!

would taste better with a little sugar and milk

A good friend told you

that your coffee

What if…

could be tuned to get more channels;

and, by the way, by just turning that knob

A good friend told you

that your TV

What if…

would be more useful if it had programs like

Acrobat or Word or Excel on it

A good friend told you

that your computer

What if…

would be more comfortable if you added air

conditioning

A good friend told you

that your house

What if…

Would run better, and could run more

cheaply and cleanly, on a mix of

methanol, some ethanol, and a sip of gasoline

A good friend also told

you that your car

What if…

Would you consider yourself free to:

Use milk and sugar in your coffee?Tune your TV to any channel you want?Use other software in your computer?Put air conditioning in your house?Then why not to choose the fuel your car runs on?

would you feel these are

inalienable rights?

That you are free to have the

option to do these things?

In a free country:

How do you feel about the restriction on your fuel freedom?You know ethanol is out there.You may know that in California for 15 years they ran a successful methanol program, using over 15,000 vehicles. Methanol can be available again at pumps quickly.In China, Brazil and Europe there are tens of thousands of cars running on methanol and ethanol.If you knew that cars ‘tuned’ for these fuels would run even more efficiently, and cleanly than on gasoline, then you would realize your restricted by more than just price.

Shouldn’t it be our right too? have these options in Europe

and South America and China?

Do youknow thatpeople

Wouldn’t it be ‘just’ to have

the freedom to choose your

fuel?The only thing stopping you is your inaction!

There are NO technical roadblocks.

Examples of cars running on ethanol, methanol and/or gasoline in Europe

Lotus

Saab

Winston Churchill said:“The Americans will always do the

right thing…after they have exhausted all the alternatives.”

The time has come to get off foreign oil!

Cars can be made, or converted, to run on any mixture of the 3 fuels.

We can lower our pump price.We can cut the noose of foreign oilWe can have cleaner airWe can lower greenhouse gasesConversion costs are ~ $100

Gaining this freedom means more money in your pocket

Cheaper transportationLower medical bills (cancer, asthma, etc.)More American jobs

Methanol can be made from our natural gas and our wastesEthanol is made from our corn, sugar beets, and sugarcane.

More new high paying jobsLower taxes needed for defending supplies

There is a bill in congress that can do this for us!

You need to support this bill to gain this freedom. It is called the

OPEN FUELS STANDARD ACTCongressman Shimkus and a number of others in the House, and Senators Cantwell and Lugar have sponsored H.R. 1687 and S. 1603, the Open Fuels Standard Act of 2011. This is a diverse coalition of industry, national security and transportation interests.

THAT THIS IS IMPORTANT TO YOU.

TELL YOUR FAVORITE

POLITICIAN

THAT THIS IS IMPORTANT TO YOU.

TELL YOUR FAVORITE

CAR DEALERSHIP

MORE INFORMATIONSee the reference list on this SlideShare site.Listen to the voice–over “Methanol can get us off oil” – along with other presentations on this site.Go to the Open Fuel Standard website

Why shouldn’t you have the

freedom to choose your fuel?