AUTHOR: Dave Sypniewski DATE: Sunday, September 18, 2005 ----- BODY: Although today may be a beautiful day for a an all day concert in Chicago, it got me wondering. All this talk and worry that some people in Washington are expressing that gasoline may be close to $5 a gallon by years end doesn't have to be a worry at all...and everyone comes out a winner in the end! I've done extensive research within the last 24 hours (OK, maybe about 10 minutes) about the difference between Ethanol and Gasohol. I guess a percentage of Ethanol is already added to gasoline; a small percentage. Remember Gasohol from the 1970's? This was fuel made almost entirely from corn. The only problem was that you had to pay big bucks to get your Pinto converted over. It wasn't practical back then, so the dozen or so people that did it, didn't exactly keep Gasohol stations in business. I say, let's give the idea a little tweaking and try again. Corn is everywhere and I'll bet folks would rather wait in line with a dozen ears of corn than wait at the pump to buy $60 worth of gas. Someone needs to develop an invention where if the needle is on "E", all you have to do is shove some corn on the cob down the gas tank and you're off. Whatever doesn't burn away as fuel, simply attach a basket to the tailpipe with a stick of butter and soon enough popcorn can shoot out the exhaust! Cheap, practical, and a cheap snack for tonight's Emmy's. The guys in the middle photo also had a good idea with their car that runs on dirty vegetable oil. They tried to make it across the country without a stop at any gas station. As long as there was a KFC, Popeye's, Burger King or McDonald's on the route, all they had to do was go to the back door and dump all the oil from the deep fry into the tank and go. It would have worked if not for the fact that the vehicle had other major problems which ended the trip halfway to the end. Now others are working with the concept, even in the Chicago area. What's more? the exhaust fumes smell just like chicken. I think the best idea however, came from Doc Brown in "Back to the Future". Everyone remembers that near the end he came back to pick up Marty and his girlfriend to take them off to the sequel. Before they flew away ("There are no roads in the future") Doc stuffed his "flux capacitor" on the DeLorean full of garbage, right out of the cans on the street. What they really need to work on is a car that runs on doodie. Any kind of doodie will do. That's one fossil fuel that will never run low in supply or go sky high in price. Since Glade has every kind of air freshener that you can imagine (Heck, there's literally an entire aisle of their products at Walgreen's) it should be a piece of cake to come up with a "mountain rain" that snaps onto the tailpipe! Oooo Doggie! -------- Squealing Pig WORLDWIDE!: Aiding farmers without Willie...this makes $en$e!

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Sunday, September 18, 2005

Aiding farmers without Willie...this makes $en$e!

Although today may be a beautiful day for a an all day concert in Chicago, it got me wondering. All this talk and worry that some people in Washington are expressing that gasoline may be close to $5 a gallon by years end doesn't have to be a worry at all...and everyone comes out a winner in the end! I've done extensive research within the last 24 hours (OK, maybe about 10 minutes) about the difference between Ethanol and Gasohol. I guess a percentage of Ethanol is already added to gasoline; a small percentage. Remember Gasohol from the 1970's? This was fuel made almost entirely from corn. The only problem was that you had to pay big bucks to get your Pinto converted over. It wasn't practical back then, so the dozen or so people that did it, didn't exactly keep Gasohol stations in business. I say, let's give the idea a little tweaking and try again. Corn is everywhere and I'll bet folks would rather wait in line with a dozen ears of corn than wait at the pump to buy $60 worth of gas. Someone needs to develop an invention where if the needle is on "E", all you have to do is shove some corn on the cob down the gas tank and you're off. Whatever doesn't burn away as fuel, simply attach a basket to the tailpipe with a stick of butter and soon enough popcorn can shoot out the exhaust! Cheap, practical, and a cheap snack for tonight's Emmy's. The guys in the middle photo also had a good idea with their car that runs on dirty vegetable oil. They tried to make it across the country without a stop at any gas station. As long as there was a KFC, Popeye's, Burger King or McDonald's on the route, all they had to do was go to the back door and dump all the oil from the deep fry into the tank and go. It would have worked if not for the fact that the vehicle had other major problems which ended the trip halfway to the end. Now others are working with the concept, even in the Chicago area. What's more? the exhaust fumes smell just like chicken. I think the best idea however, came from Doc Brown in "Back to the Future". Everyone remembers that near the end he came back to pick up Marty and his girlfriend to take them off to the sequel. Before they flew away ("There are no roads in the future") Doc stuffed his "flux capacitor" on the DeLorean full of garbage, right out of the cans on the street. What they really need to work on is a car that runs on doodie. Any kind of doodie will do. That's one fossil fuel that will never run low in supply or go sky high in price. Since Glade has every kind of air freshener that you can imagine (Heck, there's literally an entire aisle of their products at Walgreen's) it should be a piece of cake to come up with a "mountain rain" that snaps onto the tailpipe! Oooo Doggie!

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