GM favors switch to Ethanol in NASCAR
Quote selected text Published October 28th, 2007 in NASCAR News
CEO Rick Wagoner of General Motors has been talking with NASCAR executives about bringing ethanol fuel into stock-car racing, to make the sport “greener.”
Brent Dewar, GM vice president in charge of racing, said “We are guests at this party. But we’re also a partner, and we think this would be the right signal to send to America. We have to reduce our (foreign) dependency.
“We know they have a fuel partner (Sunoco), and we’re respectful of that. We’re hoping that when the time comes for a discussion of the fuel we can talk about that. What we have to do now is show them some of the technical learnings we’ve had with ethanol in other series.
“But it’s very do-able.”
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What? No Green Stamps?
i hate to say it since winston left the sport there has been a ton of bs! it not as fun any more no wonder the ratings are going down!
um yea go greener, um yea well their is a slight problem with ethanol that you never hear
in the national media and that is we have to use fossil fuels to help produce enough
Ethanol to meet the current demand! The alternative is being helped by the problem, yea
that isn’t going to solve anything.
The thing is it really is not a green move. Does anyone know how much gas they burn to harvest the corn?
What the amount of gas used in transport? And the price of corn? Think about it!
Ethanol only helps the ethanol people. Ethanol has less energy than gasoline which means you need to burn more ethanol to produce the same result as gasoline. Green indeed when you need to burn more ethanol and crank out as much pollution.
Want a green solution? Modify stock cars to burn all that Busch Light that the rednecks in the stands and infield would otherwsie drink in excess.
If ethanol could be made from BS, napcar would have the inside track.