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July 28th, 2010 02:14 PM #21
Hehe pati sakin daming nagagalit for saying its not the fault of the oil companies but rather the speculators (like me ) who simply bought oil not to use it but because they smelled money along the way. Kung baga, there was going to be a bigger idiot who would buy it up as the frenzy goes on and as it becomes headlines in the mainstream media. God I love bubbles, just be very quick!
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July 28th, 2010 02:33 PM #22
solar and wind are renewable
ethanol?
i don't think so
you plant, you harvest, you plant again, you harvest again
soil gets depleted
you have to irrigate, fertilize
you need diesel burning equipment to harvest
actually ethanol isnt that environment friendly
you still burn it
so it produces greenhouse gases (you burn plants, you still get smoke)
and to produce ethanol, you need land
land which can be used to plant food crops for humans instead of fuel crops for cars
planting crops for fuel affects food prices
when farmers switch from planting for food to planting for fuel, food prices go up
ethanol only makes sense to politicians
like the USG pushes ethanol coz they wanna reduce oil imports
the US buys oil from countries not friendly to the US (the US is making its enemies rich)
they wanna move away from that
dito sa atin, it's more for reducing oil/fuel imports coz the govt has no control over import prices
if you have less imports, and you have a local source of fuel to make up for the reduced imports, you have a bit more control over prices
but the plan failed coz oil companies still have to import ethanolLast edited by uls; July 28th, 2010 at 03:31 PM.
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July 29th, 2010 02:58 AM #24bakit hindi nalang kaya nila gayahin yung mga gasulina dito sa canada,,, 10%,5% and 0% ethanol.. yung pinaka mura yun ung may 10% ethanol yung sumunod yun naman ung may 5% ethanol then yung pinaka mahal yun ung walang halong ethanol... mukang mas ok pa pag ganito ginawa nila
93 octaine= 10% ethanol
95 octaine= 5% ethanol
97 octaine= 0
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July 29th, 2010 08:24 AM #25
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July 29th, 2010 09:21 AM #26
isa pa ngang problem na naiisip ko, 100% sure nga ba na 10% lang ang ethanol na nahahalo nila? baka mamaya nasa 13% or 15%, who knows.
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July 29th, 2010 09:31 AM #27
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July 29th, 2010 09:50 AM #28
Ang galing Very comprehensive.
Yes I agree that ethanol isn't all that attractive from a "renewable energy" kind of perspective because it's eating into what would otherwise go into our stomachs.
Maybe for people who are well-off that isn't such a big issue, but one doesn't have to look outside our own shores to see people who could use corn/sugar cane/etc. as a food source and not just raw material for ethanol.
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July 29th, 2010 10:11 AM #29I agree with this. I personally don't like the blending of ethanol to gasoline, kahit yung bio-diesel, nagiging underpower ang hatak ng engine. Had an experience na parang 'napanis' yung fuel ng car ko nung pa-full tank ako. Parang mas mabilis mag-evaporate then you have to step hard on the gas pedal para humatak.
Same banana, or worst, lalo pa ata tumaas yung price ng gasoline nung may halo ng ethanol
As usual, meron nanamang kaluluwa sa gov't ang nakikinabang sa importation na ito.
Peace
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July 29th, 2010 11:04 AM #30
i think the finer details are not overlooked, they were INTENTIONALLY OVERLOOKED
pardon me, but these people are not stupid: they have very high credentials and graduated from prestigious universities here and abroad. the truth is they already saw the impending problems of implementing this law. what they did was make the most out of it - by making sure their bank accounts are well fed from the consequences that arise after the law was passed (e.g. mandate = compulsory implementation but not enough production = importation)
let us not forget what the government did upon the implementation of the Oil Deregulation Law (why sell your shares of Petron - the only oil company that you can control the pump price, after implementing the ODL???) sa ginawa nila na yun parang binenta na nila Pilipinas... ODL is a good law, and the objective was good, but the Government let go of their ace they're holding... sayang.
these people will eventually get what is due to them... i still believe in karma.
An EV for city driving sounds very good in theory and we've been seriously considering them...
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