Hi Betsy: Thanks for the information and explanation. I didn't see your post until just this moment.
Going to the CBOT site, I cannot find any information as to ethanol pricing. So, I don't think there are any futures there including ethanol. Years ago when I looked into this I couldn't find info on the Kansas City Exchange either. In the case of the CBOT, since ADM must be a heavyweight there, I'm not surprised one bit they'd keep ethanol pricing from showing up anywhere (if I view the site accurately). I see this link for AG product pricing: http://www.cbot.com/cbot/www/page/0,1398,12+29,00.html but nothing apparently for downstream products as you refer to it. I also saw nothing at fo-licht for ethanol pricing, when I went there the other day, though certainly I could be missing something. I don't doubt that someone here could provide me with a good idea of how ethanol is being priced in various ways at this particular moment, but the principle I'm trying to get at is that, from the activist perspective, this product, which is supposedly a fuel that is a candidate to compete with part of all consumers' fuel needs, is not being traded as openly as other fuels, and its pricing, which is the source of tremendous criticism and resistance to the commodity ("without subsidies it would never work"), is known well only to a privileged few some of whom then engage in those blanket condemnations of the product. Maybe this upcoming November meeting could result in an improved level of "status" for the product's pricing information. In my own working hypothesis, the powers that be (i.e.: Oil) are only too happy to see ethanol trading and pricing excluded from the NYMEX, and only too happy to see the Ag and Ethanol lobby spend years not really getting the importance of this, fumbling over all manner of pro-ethanol lobbying campaigns, and never even mentioning or thinking about or debating the lack of transparent publicly-available pricing and trading. Maybe there is a website that follows ethanol pricing in Brazil? MM ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/orkH0C/n97DAA/Ey.GAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
