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[NBC11's Bob Redell traveled to the city of Gorda where a gas station is charging $5.40 for a gallon of full service premium. It just might be the most expensive gas in the country, Redell reported.
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Redell said the reason the gas costs so much is because the town gets all its power from a generator and they use the extra profits from the pumps help pay that bill.
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Wind would be the answer in the Bay Area. Take that generator off line and figure out a way to let mother nature help them out. I can say that I will never pay $5.00 a gallon for gas but when your the only show within 40 miles, the seller is going to win every time. They could fuel all those cars with fermented grape leaves out there, then if your car gets thirsty, go to the vineyards.
Seriously, being in the engineering business, we have been designing ethanol plants for many oil companies and others. The buzz right now is these facilities may be put on hold and those that are built may not be able to produce ethanol cheap enough because corn prices have risen too much. This may even force some of the plants to go out of business. So just like a barrel of oil over $100 and gas approaches $4 to 5 per gallon, a bushel of corn goes to the moon and ethanol production is no longer economically feasible. Is corn the only renewable resource? I don't think so. Saw grass is better, and quite possibly a country with so much can figure out a way to make this work. End the dependancy on fossil fuels and watch the price of gasoline come back down. Catch 22?