Can This Birmingham Company Kickstart the Alternative Fuel Revolution?
by Bryan Davis (Birmingham Business Journal) The race to discover a viable alternative fuel to gasoline has slowed down some in recent years, and that could be because the fuel source everyone is looking for has been hiding in plain sight.
Scott Morris, founder of Crimson Fuel, seems to think so and he’s putting his time, money and energy into making methanol the biggest thing since sliced bread or gasoline.
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For starters, Crimson Fuel will be offering a “patented and EPA-approved converter kit that will enable vehicles to run both gasoline and ethanol.”
Second, the company will open its own fuel stations and is “considering involving current chains of gas stations as partners.”
Crimson Fuel will install the converter kits on vehicles at no cost to the customer, and they will come with a full warranty, “assuring drivers that no damage will come to their vehicle.”
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Morris admits that on a converted vehicle about 1.4 gallons of methanol equals about one gallon of gasoline, but he says that the cost difference between methanol and gasoline is so drastic, that methanol will still be more affordable to the consumer. READ MORE and MORE (AL.com) and MORE (Indiegogo)
From the editor, a clarifying note from an email from Scott Morris of Crimson Fuel: “We will offer a free conversion to vehicles that will allow that vehicle to run methanol and/or gasoline. Then … we will sell a high methanol bend (or M100 if we can get there) to this base of consumers at stations we will own and operate.”
