Thursday, May 8, 2008

Stop Gasoline Price gouging

The Gasoline Conspiracy. The hell with Conspiracy, how about SCAM??!!!

How much price gouging are we going to take? Why is no one shouting price fixing? Monopoly? No monopoly? What do you call it when there are no new petroleum processing plants being constructed? No new players? Everyone everywhere is talking about alternative fuels and yet no one is building large scale processing plants. The latest debate is the use of gasohol being non cost effective, cost prohibitive… raising the price of produce. The cost of fuel is raising the price of produce and all goods.
The actuality is that Gasohol does not have to be processed from the corn itself, it can be gotten through the stalk. And feed corn anyhow is different than the corn we eat . Everything about this gasoline gouging is bullshit.
Several years ago, when a barrel of oil cost $30, the gasoline at the pump sold for $1.50 a gallon at its high point. When the price of a barrel doubled to $60.00 they eventually doubled the price of fuel to $3.00 at the pump. Doesn’t that preclude that you would only get one gallon of gasoline out of a barrel? In actuality you get 19.6 gallons from one barrel plus other derivatives like kerosene and lubricants. To be fair you would divide the $30 increase by the 19.6 gallons and you would find that the fuel price should have risen 7 cents a gallon. Ok give ‘em a dime.
It is not the price of a barrel, or the price of processing which has remained relatively the same for 30 years which raises pricing. Everything they tell us is crap. Leaded gas vs. more expensive unleaded? It comes out processed as unleaded, they have to add the lead. New era, new jargon from the cons of fuel. If it is the price of process then why are the oil companies posting more profit than any company in history . They profited $11 Billion dollars in the last quarter of last year and another 11 Billion in profit in the first quarter of this year. I can not wait for these companies to fail and they will. They are pricing themselves out of business.
Lets help them die. Below are formulas for making your own fuel. They work. Write me and Ill give you more details for free.
This I serious. We all need to stand united on this issue. Politicians have already shown they will not do anything to stop the price gouging. Even the oil that we laid pipe line for in Alaska in the 70’s is being sold to Japan. Now they want to drill for more. But the bottom line is that we don’t need oil per se to run our vehicles. And yes I know that most or the average folk cant afford either electric cars or hybrid vehicles. So the alternative is to find as many things to turn to fuel as one can just like the farmers have been doing for years.
Did you know for example, that wood chips and saw dust can be processed into a high octane fuel for gasoline powered engines? The Germans had done it since the early 1900’s and continued through WW2. The process for all of these alternative fuels is similar to moonshine manufacturing. Mix the wood with water, add 1% hydrochloric acid to the mash, cover and allow to sit for 24-48 hours. Then cook. Alcohol evaporates as vapor quicker than water and condenses on the inside of a glass or plastic lid. This would then trickle down through a hose to collect your fuel. Yes you would have to port the mash liquid into the cooker. I use a would box made from 2x4’s covered with clear plastic and angled toward the sun. instant solar cooker.
Fuel can be made from many plants. If you live in the south I understand saw grass is great. Add brewers yeast to your mash mix. No hydrochloric acid needed.
Live in Puerto Rico, try Sugar cane. Even the stalk will work. Beets, potatoes, wheat. The list goes on and on.
A month ago there was an article in our local Cincinnati paper (on the front page) about the rising price of diesel fuel causing school children to miss field trips and extra curricular activities. It was now cost prohibitive. Then just two days later hundreds of trucks rolled in to Washington, DC to protest the same thing, the price of diesel fuel. Now here is the kicker, diesel fuel can be made from old cooking grease from restaurants. Once filtered of old French fries and onions- a red lye is added for processing. Voila, bio-diesel.

I still believe the best alternative fuel is Hydrogen processed from water through electrolysis. If any industry should really be looking into this process it should be the airline industry. They would surely gain immediately. Water is plentiful, remember elementary school, two thirds of the world is underwater. And if global warming continues to melt the glaciers we sure are going to have a lot more. The argument is that it (hydrogen) is more explosive so the people opposed point out the Hindenburg. Not any of the people killed in that incident died from Hydrogen burns. The y either died from the fall and the burns found on the bodies were from the engine oil splatter. Then the opposition states that you cant make enough onboard. But a man named Stanley Meyer created a perfectly good hydrogen generator and was murdered for his invention. Gee, I wonder who killed him? Fortunately for us this device is available in public domain. It’s patent was filed 20 years ago. Look it up on the internet. It’ll break your heart. Unfortunately I cant recreate this device. But id love for someone to explain it to me part for part. Love to build one.
Perhaps in the interim there is something else you, (we), can do to bug the oil industry. Read this carefully please. Stop buying oil from the biggest company, Marathon . I’m not asking that you stop buying gasoline, just stop buying from Marathon. This will force them to drop pricing and then their competitors will have to follow suit kind of like creating an old gas war.
So there you have it. What are you as an individual going to do? Do something. At least write me and tell me what you think. I’m not asking for donations, money or anything. I just want to see this travesty stopped cold. And I know I’m not alone, am I?
Respectfully submitted, Myles Alan myles1949@gmail.com
Please put the words “Fuel gouging” in the subject heading so that the mail doesn’t go in to spam/junk mail. If it does I can go in and retrieve it.