
Journal mercedo's Journal: The Rise Of Crude Oil Price 4
The rapid inflation of crude oil price has been in progress. 40% higher than last year. Gasoline price by one litre is 131 yen right now, because one gallon is equal to 3.785 litre, one gallon of gasoline is 495.8 yen, which is about $4.23. ($1=Y117)
This so affects every nook and cranny of entire life here in Japan. But I must admit this society is so stagnant still, unbelievably. Inefficiency has prevailed everywhere. Japanese people cannot change themselves on their own, but they are vulnerable to pressure out of other countries, especially from USA.
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Arguements have been made about if 'corn ethanol' is that viable, and perhaps not for wide scale roll outs, but a lot of other potential ethanol sources are viable. Switchgrass comes to
Re:I'll just beat a dead horse here... (Score:2)
The only reason it's a "dead horse", is because they are much harder to find than the commercials let on. THe first flex fuel push was in 2001, and there were more flexfuel models then than there were in 2005 - when I bought my car.
Even for the cars that are available (like the Ford Focus), it's only on the 'Fleet Sales' models (which are near impossible to find). Maybe, come 2008, we will probably see a lot of flexfuel vehicles in the commercial market... but by then we'll have lost another two years
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