stangdude2000
Founding Member
Well I suppose there's always the Hydrogen Combustion Engine, or perhaps even the possibility of Propane.
The mustang is a muscle car and never should be a hybrid no more than a vett. They have other cars for the greens to choose from that arent sports cars. Also when more alternitive fuels come on line, gas prices will drop. Us mustangs guy's will be able to get gas for 50 cents a gallon as we will be the only one's left using it
My thoughts exactly. And that's exactly why it won't die off, and why the V8 option won't go away.
I'll admit that I'm far from being a chemist, but if we're able to produce fully synthetic motor oils. Then why are we not able to produce synthetic based fuels/gasoline.
If memory serves correctly, is not conventional gasoline produced from 100% crude oil ?
Seems to me, we should be able to make fully synthetic gasoline, from 100% synthetic motor oil
If 100% synthetic motor oil cost more than conventional; would synthetic gas cost more?
Perhaps costs would reduce significantly, once our dependency on foreign oil becomes a thing of the past.
At this point, anything would be better than being held hostage, by Saudi Arabia
Also, for the person who mentioned water vapor as a green house gas, remember all combustion creates water vapor, but unlike CO2 and methane, water vapor falls back to the Earth, it is called rain.
So if synthetic gasoline would still be carbon based, why not just make it directly from 100% non-crude synthetic motor oil
Not to be trivia-master here, but here's another did-you-know (very few people realize this): Oil companies do know have any higher of a profit margin than your average company, which is around 10%. It just so happens that they are in an EXTREMELY high revenue industry which explains the record profits.
Does this make them greedy? That is up for debate. One could say yes since they could easily reduce their profit margin to help reduce prices for the consumer (although who is to say the oil producers wouldn't see the extra profit opportunity then raise the crude prices anyway). One could also easily argue that there is no reason why the oil companies should have to sink to a lower profit margin than any other company just because of the industry they are in. I tend to side with the latter, but thats because we still have some of the cheapest gasoline in the world.
I'd imagine costs would start to get prohibitive. Mobil-1 Synthetic is what, something like $7-8/quart? That's $30/gallon for the oil. I don't know how all that synthesizing works though.
Oil companies do know have any higher of a profit margin than your average company, which is around 10%. It just so happens that they are in an EXTREMELY high revenue industry which explains the record profits.