E85 Ethanol and Windows Vista, you’re probably thinking “what’s the connection?”

Well, a few weeks ago I pulled up to one of my vendors to pick up networking supplies and I saw another customer. He was there in his work van that had the “FlexFuel” sticker on it so I asked him about it. “Do you know where to get the E85 fuel for this thing?” His reply was essentially “no, I just use it for work.” That got me thinking about how often I see the “FlexFuel” stickers on vehicles and how many stations there are that sell it. So I did what any computer geek would do… I googled it. Apparently there is only 1 station in the greater Los Angeles area that sells E85 fuel. And it really isn’t worth the drive from where he was to where you can get the gas.

Also, E85 also doesn’t have the same amount of power per gallon as gasoline does. You lose approximately 20-30% when using Ethanol. Therefore you use more E85 than gasoline. However, we can create Ethanol here so we may not be quite so dependent on the Middle East for our oil. And this would be good for all of us.

Now on to Windows Vista… Vista came out over a year ago and there weren’t many programs that worked for it. Software manufacturers just weren’t ready for it. It was also put out before the IT industry was ready to support it. And the product wasn’t ready for the mass public. Windows Vista is about to hit its first Service Pack and hopefully when it does, it’ll remove some of the bugs that prevent Vista from being the first-class OS that Microsoft wants it to be.

And back to the E85… Please, for those of us who want to use E85, make it more readily available. Once it is, I want to buy a FlexFuel vehicle too.

Happy Computing,
Tim

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