HW13-3923
From Environmental Technology
Revision as of 22:13, 25 April 2006
Nick Jones PHS101 HW13-3923
1. The Article exposes why the price of gas and crude oil are so expensive.
2. It basically says that the producers have no control over the prices of oil. It's all in the prices that are set by traders on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Sens. Herb Kohl claims that "the oil industry has unquestionably enriched itself during this period of high prices."
3. This topic goes pretty deep, but I know that we get most of our oil from the middle east, and since we are at war with them right now everything is going to be more difficult. But at the same time prices weren't even this high in 2002, right when the war began. I don't know the person that sets the price for a barrel of crude oil and who the person is that says gas has to be $3/gallon, but someone is making alot of money on it. It doesn't seem fair to people of the middle class to be stripped of their money so someone can get rich.
1. It is nontoxic and will not contaminate groundwater or soil, and its air pollution emissions in general compare favorably to petrolium deisel.
2. B20 or lower.
3. It is an EPAct fuel, it is domestically produced, it has environmental and clean air benefits, and it does not contaminate groundwater or soil.
4. methane, ethane, propane, and butane.
5. E85 is an EPAct Alternative Fuel - one of a handful of EPAct-approved fuels that help regulated fleets meet their EPAct mandates. E85 is a mixture of 85% ethanol, and 15% gasoline.
6. 56 pounds of corn produces 2.7 gallons of ethanol.
7. Ethanol is domesically produced and renewable, ethanol is made from corn, and E85 is an approved alternative fuel by the EPAct.
