| Remember when just a few months ago the price of | | | | fuel source from modifying the E. coli bacteria of all |
| gasoline was over 4 dollars a gallon and the price of a | | | | things. That's right, you heard it first, the bacteria |
| barrel of oil was over 140 bucks? I still remember | | | | that has been making people sick from food |
| those days because they put a serious damper on | | | | poisoning for so long now has the potential to fuel |
| my business because I needed to do a lot of driving | | | | our cars on the roadways. Most people were looking |
| to finish my routes each day. Since then the barrel of | | | | into ethanol as an alternative source of fuel but the |
| oil is down to 35 dollars yet the gallon of gas still | | | | difference between the biofuel from ethanol and the |
| costs us 2 dollars a gallon. The oil companies are | | | | biofuel produced by the modified E. coli bacteria is in |
| making a killing here and we need to start searching | | | | the molecular chain of the alcohol. The alcohol |
| for a viable and cheap alternative fuel source to use | | | | produced from ethanol is a lower molecular chain |
| in our cars instead of gasoline. Obama really wants to | | | | alcohol and has many limitations and some are : it has |
| put more emphasis into research on alternative fuel | | | | to be mixed with gas to produce fuel (which still |
| sources and has earmarked a lot more money to | | | | makes us dependable on gasoline), and it cant be |
| help researchers come up with one. We currently are | | | | distributed without modifying it. The higher chain |
| working on all electric cars like the Chevy volt and | | | | alcohol produced from the genetically modified E. coli |
| even solar power cars, and even though they are a | | | | Bacteria has no such limitations as they have a |
| few years off this is a great time to start research | | | | density that is close to gasoline, does not absorb |
| on them now, but I feel the best source of energy | | | | H2O as quickly and is healthier for engines to run on |
| that can be created easily and doesnt damage our | | | | as they have high octanes. |
| ozone layer or atmosphere are biofuels as they are | | | | This is a very exciting new source of biofuel and my |
| very eco-friendly, but which biofuels should we | | | | guess is they will pour more money into it to |
| choose from? | | | | somehow make this a biofuel that is cheap enough |
| Last year researchers from the engineering section | | | | to bring to market. One day our cars could run on |
| of UCLA have succeeded in creating a very efficient | | | | bacteria fuel. Amazing isn't it? |