Here is a list of websites that sell E85 conversion Kits.

They all look like the same unit provided by this company: Xpertech Inc.

That company also shows up on the CCR or government GSA sales and appears to be supplying the the Government fleets at this time.

http://www.mye85kit.com

http://www.e85conversionkits.net

http://www.whitelightning.net

The product looks like it is named White Lightning, but many others that are more expensive have different names and I would assume that Xpertech Inc. Makes them all.

Here is a list of websites that sell E85 conversion Kits.

They all look like the same unit provided by this company: Xpertech Inc.

That company also shows up on the CCR or government GSA sales and appears to be supplying the the Government fleets at this time.

http://www.mye85kit.com

http://www.e85conversionkits.net

http://www.whitelightning.net

The product looks like it is named White Lightning, but many others that are more expensive have different names and I would assume that Xpertech Inc. Makes them all.

Hopefully it won’t be biofuels.

Okay, now that I’ve ranted, here’s a point no candidate, nor poster here has addressed about biofuel conversion…THE E.P.A. and it’s archaic, downright stupid regulations. Candidates can spout all the pretty prose and make unrealistic promises they want, but until someone reigns in the E.P.A., little will get done. By either party!

If you are a professional mechanic and you convert vehicles to biofuels without the E.P.A. annointing you, you could get hit with a $5,000 A DAY fine. Getting that certification can cost $500,000 PER ENGINE PER YEAR MODEL!

That leaves the vast majority of these conversions up to shadetree mechanics doing it in their home garages. Boy, does that sound safe!

What the hell? The tree huggers that control the E.P.A. want to go back to the horse and buggy days, I know, but why is the fate of our nation’s bio-energy policy in the hands of tin foil hat wearing hippies?

Mr. Presidential candidate…tell me what you’re going to do about Enviro-nazis and their Gestapo agency! That’s what I want to know, not how you’re going to put three governmnet funded chickens, confiscated from rich chicken ranchers, in every government subsidized pot for the non-taxpayers!

Hopefully it won’t be biofuels.

Okay, now that I’ve ranted, here’s a point no candidate, nor poster here has addressed about biofuel conversion…THE E.P.A. and it’s archaic, downright stupid regulations. Candidates can spout all the pretty prose and make unrealistic promises they want, but until someone reigns in the E.P.A., little will get done. By either party!

If you are a professional mechanic and you convert vehicles to biofuels without the E.P.A. annointing you, you could get hit with a $5,000 A DAY fine. Getting that certification can cost $500,000 PER ENGINE PER YEAR MODEL!

That leaves the vast majority of these conversions up to shadetree mechanics doing it in their home garages. Boy, does that sound safe!

What the hell? The tree huggers that control the E.P.A. want to go back to the horse and buggy days, I know, but why is the fate of our nation’s bio-energy policy in the hands of tin foil hat wearing hippies?

Mr. Presidential candidate…tell me what you’re going to do about Enviro-nazis and their Gestapo agency! That’s what I want to know, not how you’re going to put three governmnet funded chickens, confiscated from rich chicken ranchers, in every government subsidized pot for the non-taxpayers!

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http://tinyurl.com/63vrcu

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John McCain Supports Flex-Fuel Vehicles (FFVs) And Believes They Should Play A Greater Role In Our Transportation Sector.

In just three years, Brazil went from new cars sales that were about 5 percent FFVs to over 70 percent of new vehicles that were FFVs. American automakers have committed to make 50 percent of their cars FFVs by 2012. John McCain calls on automakers to make a more rapid and complete switch to FFVs.

John McCain Believes Alcohol-Based Fuels Hold Great Promise As Both An Alternative To Gasoline And As A Means of Expanding Consumers’ Choices.

Some choices such as ethanol are on the market right now. The second generation of alcohol-based fuels like cellulosic ethanol, which won’t compete with food crops, are showing great potential.

Today, Isolationist Tariffs And Wasteful Special Interest Subsidies Are Not Moving Us Toward An Energy Solution.

We need to level the playing field and eliminate mandates, subsidies, tariffs and price supports that focus exclusively on corn-based ethanol and prevent the development of market-based solutions which would provide us with better options for our fuel needs.

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Meanwhile, Obama stubbornly insists on clinging to our counter-productive, self-hurting tariffs on Brazilian ethanol:

If you want to take some of the pressure off this market, the obvious thing to do is lower that tariff and let some Brazilian ethanol come in,” said C. Ford Runge, an economist specializing in commodities and trade policy at the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy at the University of Minnesota. “But one of the fundamental reasons biofuels policy is so out of whack with markets and reality is that interest group politics have been so dominant in the construction of the subsidies that support it.”

Corn ethanol generates less than two units of energy for every unit of energy used to produce it, while the energy ratio for sugar cane is more than 8 to 1. With lower production costs and cheaper land prices in the tropical countries where it is grown, sugar cane is a more efficient source.

[...]

On the campaign trail, Mr. Obama has not explained his opposition to imported sugar cane ethanol. But in remarks last year, made as President Bush was about to sign an ethanol cooperation agreement with his Brazilian counterpart, Mr. Obama argued that “our country’s drive toward energy independence” could suffer if Mr. Bush relaxed restrictions, as Mr. McCain now proposes.

“It does not serve our national and economic security to replace imported oil with Brazilian ethanol,” he argued.

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Me again here.

Unlike Saudi Arabia, Iran, or Venezuela, Brazil is not an enemy of the United States nor a state sponsor of terror. And unlike Russia, Brazil is not an aggressive authoritarian enemy seeking to reconquer an empire and challenge our nation. Who cares if some sugarcane farmers in the Third World earn more money rather than Saudis funding radical madrassas in Pakistan? Apparently Obama does.

Besides, there’s NO way domestic ethanol production can possibly meet the demand necessary for a switchover from gasoline. Our corn farmers will have more than enough of a market. Methanol can help, but ethanol’s higher energy content makes it an important part of the picture.

Unfortunately rather than educate corn farmers that they’ll do just fine if the tariffs are dropped (as long as we have an FFV mandate) Obama prefers to pander to them. Thus prolonging the years in which we fund our enemies in the War on Terror.

Ihttp://tinyurl.com/6fwnyw

John McCain Supports Flex-Fuel Vehicles (FFVs) And Believes They Should Play A Greater Role In Our Transportation Sector.

In just three years, Brazil went from new cars sales that were about 5 percent FFVs to over 70 percent of new vehicles that were FFVs. American automakers have committed to make 50 percent of their cars FFVs by 2012. John McCain calls on automakers to make a more rapid and complete switch to FFVs.

John McCain Believes Alcohol-Based Fuels Hold Great Promise As Both An Alternative To Gasoline And As A Means of Expanding Consumers’ Choices.

Some choices such as ethanol are on the market right now. The second generation of alcohol-based fuels like cellulosic ethanol, which won’t compete with food crops, are showing great potential.

Today, Isolationist Tariffs And Wasteful Special Interest Subsidies Are Not Moving Us Toward An Energy Solution.

We need to level the playing field and eliminate mandates, subsidies, tariffs and price supports that focus exclusively on corn-based ethanol and prevent the development of market-based solutions which would provide us with better options for our fuel needs.

–

Meanwhile, Obama stubbornly insists on clinging to our counter-productive, self-hurting tariffs on Brazilian ethanol:

If you want to take some of the pressure off this market, the obvious thing to do is lower that tariff and let some Brazilian ethanol come in,” said C. Ford Runge, an economist specializing in commodities and trade policy at the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy at the University of Minnesota. “But one of the fundamental reasons biofuels policy is so out of whack with markets and reality is that interest group politics have been so dominant in the construction of the subsidies that support it.”

Corn ethanol generates less than two units of energy for every unit of energy used to produce it, while the energy ratio for sugar cane is more than 8 to 1. With lower production costs and cheaper land prices in the tropical countries where it is grown, sugar cane is a more efficient source.

[...]

On the campaign trail, Mr. Obama has not explained his opposition to imported sugar cane ethanol. But in remarks last year, made as President Bush was about to sign an ethanol cooperation agreement with his Brazilian counterpart, Mr. Obama argued that “our country’s drive toward energy independence” could suffer if Mr. Bush relaxed restrictions, as Mr. McCain now proposes.

“It does not serve our national and economic security to replace imported oil with Brazilian ethanol,” he argued.

—

Me again here.

Unlike Saudi Arabia, Iran, or Venezuela, Brazil is not an enemy of the United States nor a state sponsor of terror. And unlike Russia, Brazil is not an aggressive authoritarian enemy seeking to reconquer an empire and challenge our nation. Who cares if some sugarcane farmers in the Third World earn more money rather than Saudis funding radical madrassas in Pakistan? Apparently Obama does.

Besides, there’s NO way domestic ethanol production can possibly meet the demand necessary for a switchover from gasoline. Our corn farmers will have more than enough of a market. Methanol can help, but ethanol’s higher energy content makes it an important part of the picture.

Unfortunately rather than educate corn farmers that they’ll do just fine if the tariffs are dropped (as long as we have an FFV mandate) Obama prefers to pander to them. Thus prolonging the years in which we fund our enemies in the War on Terror.

I actually linked to your post for my article, I just changed the title to something that I thought was a lot less practical but a little more entertaining (the economics on that don’t check out so don’t worry about them). I enjoyed your writing and it’s good to see someone stand up for Obama in the energy sector. I feel that things are only getting started with all these alternate fuels. If we focus on alternate energy like we did space, imagine what could be accomplished!

Sorry that this post is attracting negative attention from people who are just too afraid of progress to accept where we are headed. I find it funny that people don’t like him because he doesn’t have experience, but has so much experience. Maybe he doesn’t have the right experience they are looking for? Or maybe he isn’t enough of a maverick? So he has a few skeletons in his closet, who doesn’t. Sarah Palin does and she ran a small town in Alaska. John McCain has his issues to, but slander just brings down the process of progress.

And yes, to an alcohol fueled America! And it really shouldn’t stop there. Hopefully we will be writing about something else that’s even better in the future.

~anthony