Ethyl alcohol blended gasoline should be a good bet now, but its not and we could wonder why. We are paying a high price at the pumps, so why are we not using blended gas now that the prices are advantageous?
Mohawk mixes in 10% Ethyl Alcohol to its gasoline.
This portion is independant of the price of crude, and so 10% of Mohawks gas price should be too?
nope, they say, "the cost of producing a litre of alcohol is more than the cost of producing a litre of gasoline".
But thats not allways true. This year the price of methanol dropped to just 25cents!!
Crude went from $30 to $60 over the past couple years, methanol dropped as sources came onstream.
example:
now, gas at $1[I paid 97cents today]
add in 25cents/liter methanol at a 10% blend , and you get a Mohawk liter that could cost 90c+2.5c{90%normal gas from crude, with 10% of each liter being methanol at 2.5cents-per-a-tenth-of-a-liter = 92.5cents per liter.
Someone check my figures, but I think that makes sense. {it makes 7.5 cents actually.
This should really catch on. 7.5c/l adds up to a lot of money for anyone who puts methanol in their gas. It works the same, no problems with Mohawk's gas. And it could easily be a 30% blend [21cents per liter savings], they tested fleets on 85% blends.
In a real world, or as it seems to be, Mohawk is raking in a spare 7.5c/l on blended gas, or if they offered us savings they would sell a lot of gas, and get a lot of publicity in the morning news gas price reports. But something is stopping it from catching on. Its all quiet on the biggest issues anymore.
Investor Fear of the prices going up might stop a move to using more methanol, but with crude forecast for $100/bbl its time to move on blended gasoline, if only to give the public a break. Regulations are at play now, so change as needed.
What to do? lets protest for lower gas by blending it. Put up the processing and refineries if need be, let government do it if nobody else will. PetroCan, where are you now that we need you??
also:
Advertisements for the fuel claim that up to 40% fewer emissions can be obtained by using this fuel.
Karlin
Mohawk mixes in 10% Ethyl Alcohol to its gasoline.
This portion is independant of the price of crude, and so 10% of Mohawks gas price should be too?
nope, they say, "the cost of producing a litre of alcohol is more than the cost of producing a litre of gasoline".
But thats not allways true. This year the price of methanol dropped to just 25cents!!
Crude went from $30 to $60 over the past couple years, methanol dropped as sources came onstream.
example:
now, gas at $1[I paid 97cents today]
add in 25cents/liter methanol at a 10% blend , and you get a Mohawk liter that could cost 90c+2.5c{90%normal gas from crude, with 10% of each liter being methanol at 2.5cents-per-a-tenth-of-a-liter = 92.5cents per liter.
Someone check my figures, but I think that makes sense. {it makes 7.5 cents actually.
This should really catch on. 7.5c/l adds up to a lot of money for anyone who puts methanol in their gas. It works the same, no problems with Mohawk's gas. And it could easily be a 30% blend [21cents per liter savings], they tested fleets on 85% blends.
In a real world, or as it seems to be, Mohawk is raking in a spare 7.5c/l on blended gas, or if they offered us savings they would sell a lot of gas, and get a lot of publicity in the morning news gas price reports. But something is stopping it from catching on. Its all quiet on the biggest issues anymore.
Investor Fear of the prices going up might stop a move to using more methanol, but with crude forecast for $100/bbl its time to move on blended gasoline, if only to give the public a break. Regulations are at play now, so change as needed.
What to do? lets protest for lower gas by blending it. Put up the processing and refineries if need be, let government do it if nobody else will. PetroCan, where are you now that we need you??
also:
Advertisements for the fuel claim that up to 40% fewer emissions can be obtained by using this fuel.
Karlin