First Name | Debbie |
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Last Name | Baron |
Email Address | mendocinodeb@gmail.com |
Affiliation | Mendo Alcohol Fuel Grou |
Subject | It is time for vehicles with optimized ethanol engines to have ZEV status |
Comment | Dear Members of the Board: As you begin considering minor modifications to the Zero Emission Vehicle Regulation, I respectfully ask you to consider granting ZEV status to optimized ethanol engines running on E98 Ethanol fuel (98/2 Etoh/ipOH). Why? Because ethanol fuel is a carbon neutral fuel, especially in an engine built for it. Many myths about ethanol abound. These are well documented in David Blume's important book, Alcohol Can Be A Gas. But ethanol is a fuel that can be easily made out of many varieties of biomass, and not just from corn. If grown and harvested according to the methods of permaculture, feedstocks can produce low cost ethanol with very little cultivation. Such will mitigate extreme climate change, bolster America's energy independence, reinvigorate the economy, and establish international peace and security. And ethanol does not require massive infrastcture development, or rely on invasive, expensive, controversial, and polluting extraction operations. Today, critics make much about how ethanol fuel does not perform as well as gasoline fuel. But this is unfair since ethanol is being asked to perform in engines optimized for gasoline. Even though critics level their complaints, ethanol fuel is a fact of life and more and more of it is being used as the years go by. It is the 21st century and this writer believes that many new and different transporatation styles will soon be upon us. Already, there are plans for electric cars, air cars, hydrogen cars, and driverless cars. In the ZEV Emission Vehicle Regulations there is language for some of these innovative vehicles. But, is there language for vehicles with optimized ethanol engines running on E98, which is denatured with the non-petroleum chemicals isopropyl alcohol and denatonium benzoate? If not, there should be. Soon, vehicles with optimized ethanol engines will be developed. And because the optimized ethanol engine uses carbon neutral ethanol fuel, cars and trucks designed with 21st century optimized ethanol engines and fuel should be granted Zero Emissions Vehicle Status. Thank you, Debbie Baron, Secretary of the Mendo Alcohol Fuel Group |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2013-10-19 12:08:39 |
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