If cars are bad why don't governments get people to use biofuels?

Question

and what is the deal with electric cars surely if anything they pollute more than a normal car due to the electricity generation and the dumping of the used batteries. Further why do people focus so much on the car as harmful to the planet when it is responsible for very little of the total pollution.

Answer 1

You are assuming that biofuels are automatically better for the environment. Intensive farming, particularly of corn for corn oil, uses a lot of energy, and in temperate climates the economics don't stack up. Brazil's use of sugar cane ethanol is an exception, giving them a lot of self-sufficiency in fuel, but if the industrial world were to switch wholesale, the effects would very likely include:
depriving people of food-producing land in poor countries
accelerated destruction of forests to grow more biofuels

Answer 2

Wow... Multi-questions in a question.

First I am not to certain what cars will run on your Biofuels. Can you suggest the standard models which have been in production for ten to fifteen years which
will operte properly on these Biofuels? And the gasoline
stations which sell Biofuels, could you please tell me their names and locations?

Certainly battery lead and battery acid will be a junking problem, as will accidents due to splashed battery acid in car collisions. Just visualize six heavy duty truck batteries flying through the air at 75 miles per hour or faster. I sure don't want to be on the receiving end of those head knockers.

As to the situation of the car being the culprit...Well, how about all those jet planes flying up in the upper atmosphere right close to where the ozone layer is? Shouldn't we be converting all jet planes into electric planes first? i mean the cars are some 20,000 feet below the ozone or something. The jet planes are right close to it.

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Answer 4

You may want to research the electric car thing. The batteries used in electric cars are not the same as the ones used to start your car. They are intended to be permanent. The internal combustion engine is responsible for most of the pollution we have today. Don't listen to Rush Limbaugh. He's not a scientist. He's an idiot.

Answer 5

Goverments are making profit from tax from oil/automobile manufacturers. Therefore, it is good for the economy.
Car is harmful simply because more and more people own cars. On average 2 cars in a family/household. How many people drive cars in the highway/road every morning, day,night, year especiallyin the city emid CO2 to the sky? Imagine if the city like L A, Bangkok, Paris and downtown have 2-5 million people!

Answer 6

If there is a technology that gives a better driving experience and pollutes less. using technology available now, why can't manufacturers provide them, regardless of government or oil companies?

what is the deal with electric cars -
Electric motors are far far more efficient than infernal combustion as a motive force; a few easy to understand reasons:
1. always at optimum efficency, don't need to warm up
2. torque characteristics max at 0rpm, which means simpler more efficent (&reliable) transmision. So the Tesla built by Lotus in the UK will easilly out accelerate a ferrari. And the British Bluebird is capable of 300-400mph (much faster than the ill-fated Top gear jet car )
3. regenerative braking, recovering energy to recharge batteries
4. refueling at home or office, no detours to petrol stations, no fuel tankers on the road.
5. not affected by altitude so perform well on Pikes peak hill climb
6. batteries are 90% recyclable, how much petrol or radiator fluid is recovered after use? Moden batteries, eg Li-ion as used in mobile phones, do not have acid to splash or spill and don't vent flamable gasses, and recycling facilities already exist.
7. When the traffic isn't moving no energy is used.

Also driving electric is a far more enjoyable experience without the noise & smell, and instant smooth power .
The UK government & local councils have given incentives to electric cars, eg £0 road tax, £0 London congestion charge, free parking & recharging facilities in places like Westminster.

$3,000 of solar pannels on your roof will provide enough energy for most daily motoring;
but even using oil the laws of termodynamics say a big generator, run at optimum temperature with constant filtering and monitoring of emmissions is more efficient than many small engines run at variable speed and rarely at optimum temperature, maintained once a year.
And generators can use unrefined fuel and be placed close to port or pipe line so reducing transpoprt and ancillary costs.

Bio-fuels do not address the basic particulate pollutans from deisel which are reposnsible for 1,000 deaths annually, source UK gov. Bio-fuels when grown intensivly also require lots of inputs like agro-chemicals which are derived from oil, and assuming the agricultural machinery doesn't consume more of the bio-fuel than it produces.
And land for bio-fuels cannot grow food. there is already concern on the scale of deforestation to plant palm oil.

Transport is only responsible for about a 3rd of CO2 emmission; but i is much easier to build more efficient cars than change our housing stock.
And if people can have a better car that gives a better driving experience and pollutes less using technology available now, why can't manufacturers provide them?


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Answer 7

Because the oil industry has too big a lobby. They are in bed with government and threaten to shut the economy down if the government tries to develop cleaner, cheaper, alternative fuels. I worked for the Office of Energy in Idaho in 1980 when Regan got elected. His first job was to shut down the offices of energy. We were working on alternative fuel grants and developing ways to forgo our oil dependence. Ever since Regan we have lost all that ground. If we had kept up the studies, we would be so much further ahead snow. Be careful who you vote for. It makes a difference.

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Answer 10

Simple answer, the government like the tax that comes in from petrol and it would take a huge effort from them to change it over.

Its a shame because it would do us and the world so much better, but agian it just comes down to money.