"Alternative" fuel survey number 2 - Your local region's preference

[Ever Victorious]

This survey is part 2 of 2 surveys.

What I would like here is for everyone to put aside their personal preference for alternative fuel and select which alternative fuel the general populace of your area (city, county, or state) would prefer to use.

[motoguy128]

I live in Iowa. Our city has a small biodiesel plant so this area is split between Ethanol and Biodiesel. Around here, almost all gasoline automatically contains 10% ethanol.

[Althalus]

Well down here in GA, I don't think there are any alternative fuels available.

[arco]

Yeah, none of those are commonly found around here either.

Luckily, gas works perfectly in my Versa. No complaints from me.

[proxim2020]

Here you can find E85 at a lot of places. I've seen tons of Kroger gas stations that sell it. I think we may have Bio Diesel, but there aren't many truckstops around here advertising that they do. Although Bio Diesel is a good idea, it seems to be slow to get off the ground. It still seems more like a grassroots operation where people are making small amounts to supply small areas. There are exceptions though.

[Ever Victorious]

Well down here in GA, I don't think there are any alternative fuels available.

We have biodiesel at around 3 dozen pumps throughout the state, 2 dozen of which are in the king/pierce/snohomish county area.

There are only 2 E85 pumps in the whole state, and you need military IDs to get to either... one is at Fort Lewis, the other at Fairchild AFB.

[KimberKenobi]

there's not enough land in the United States to produce all the biodiesel we'd need to run all of America's cars at our current fuel demand... There's enough in the entire planet, but people would have to go hungry... Biodiesel is a good alternative for the few, but not for the many.

[Ever Victorious]

There's not enough land to create any crop-based fuel for every vehicle in america to run entirely off of, but what we CAN do is stretch our existing fuel supplies. Until something new and plentiful comes onto the market, that's about all we can hope for.

[KimberKenobi]

Biodiesel is a good alternative for the few, but not for the many.

Whether or not there's enough land on the earth to run every car in the US on biodiesel is highly debated... I honestly think that biodiesel should be a lasting technology since it utilizes a waste product, but it's just like any other agricultural (or really any) endeavor (I stick with what I know) you need to diversify. Some need to stick with biodiesel, some with flex fuels, etc. but there are so many people in the world that we will be hard-pressed to get technology catch up to an efficiency factor where enough energy could be generated solely from clean, renewable sources any time in the near future (like our lifetimes).