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Business Week reported that despite President Bush enjoyed a high profile photo-op on Monday with the heads of the big three automakers who showed him an impressive array of his most recent cleaning of car models. Flex cars include General Motors Corporation model, which can run on ethanol, a plug-in of hydrogen-powered vehicle from Ford Motor Co. and DaimlerChrysler AG's Jeep, powered by a biodiesel blend. The magazine said all was not quite what it seemed.

Business Week, said it's a dirty secret U.S. made clean cars. That could send clouds gray secret to making cars flex goal fuzzy agreement. The current government policy of flexible fuel vehicles give car makers leeway in meeting fuel economy rules that produce flexible fuel vehicles and trucks.

Therefore, the Detroit automakers have been making hundreds of thousands of vehicles, although most consumers do not have access to alternative fuels because they are available in only a fraction of gas stations in the United States.

Only one percent of the nation of flexible fuel vehicles actually use E85. The remaining 99 percent are using gasoline fuel traditional. The result is anything but green. E85 is an alcohol fuel mixture containing a mixture of up to 85 percent denatured fuel ethanol and gasoline and other hydrocarbons. The ranges of the components of ethanol from 70 or 83 percent. This fuel is widely used in Sweden and is now increasingly popular in the United States.

GM serves as a modern leader in flexible-fuel engines, as its Swedish subsidiary Saab has developed a turbocharged engine called the BioPower flex-fuel. The sophisticated engine has special advantage of high octane fuel. The engine allows the vehicle to accelerate faster and achieve a dramatic speed when running on E85 compared with pure gasoline operation. Tests using larger equipped with Saab APC system revealed that they can operate correctly on the E85 up to 50 percent blend with ordinary gasoline. However, the fuel is expected to have long term effects such as ethanol is more aggressive in the tubes and also gasoline it acts as a lubricant.

In addition, the Brazilian subsidiary of GM approved the automaker Family and Family II 1 Straight-4 engine with technology that FlexPower allows the use of ethanol, gasoline or fuel mix. The FlexPower vehicles include the Chevrolet Corsa and Astra, Chevrolet.

Today, manufacturers cars are more for the manufacture of flexible fuel vehicles to meet the requirements of the rules. This is the reason why manufacturers automakers are asking for considerable support from the administration. The monetary support is expected that funding for research, tests and studies on the use of alternative fuels. If ever Nissan Motor Corp. Ltd. decided to build flexible fuel vehicles, the automaker could consider a number of things. One of which is Nissan engines, which would require careful study.

Environmental advocates are not shy about voicing their outrage. "It's a total fraud," said Dan Becker, director of the heating program Sierra Club global. He added: "The automakers are trying to protect themselves aa having to make more efficient vehicles. They are avoiding the road to reducing oil dependence, curbing global warming, saving consumers money, and ultimately saving Detroit from competitors like Toyota. "

About the Author:

Ryan Thomas is a native of Denver, Colorado. He grew up in a family of car afficionados. He now resides in Detroit where he owns a service shop and works part time as a consultant for a local automotive magazine.

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