Alternative Fuels

While converting a car to electric (http://mt-ev.blogspot.com) I did a lot of reading on the subject of alternative fuels. This really is an important subject because of the large amount, hundreds of billions, of money we are giving away.

So, I'll start with some basic stats.

• 83,607 K barrels/day - World Petroleum Consumption (2005)
• 20,802 K barrels/day - US Petroleum Consumption (2005)
• 9,159 K barrels/day - US Finished Motor Gasoline (2005)
• 13,714 K barrels/day - US Total Petroleum Import (2005)

http://www.eia.doe.gov/basics/quickoil.html

So, the US consumes about 24% of the worlds petroleum. About 45% of that is for motor gasoline. And about 65% is imported. About 3000 K barrels/day or 23% from Canada and Mexico.


These are some alternative fuels for cars.

• Propane
• Methanol
• Ethanol
• Biodiesel
• Hydrogen
• Compressed Natural Gas
• Electricity