MASON CITY, IA - In a NIACC classroom students are preparing cars for the future. Student heath Tulp says that means less dependence on foreign products and more Iowa grown ethanol."It's pretty interesting and it's easy to install too and it's not really that hard. The hardest thing is the wiring and even then it's not that hard."
They are putting in a supplemental fuel injection system. It adds fuel as needed so the car can run smoothly on both gas and E-85. When flex fuel inventor Mitch Sremac started developing the system four years ago, it was their way of creating a more environmentally friendly future.
"We are tired of paying people that don't like us overseas for their oil. So what we want to do is trying to keep the money here in the United States."
And these guys are the first class at NIACC to learn the conversion process. Sremac made sure when he invented the system to make it user friendly
"To make it easy enough to install by most technicians and be able to keep the car running and meet emission standards."
Knowing these skills is giving them a step up from the competition when it comes to finding jobs.
Only 10% of cars are originally manufactured to handle both gas and E-85, meaning these students have a lot of converting to do.
