>If I could find a regular source of pricing of various fuels I think that there are only one or two ways this is ever going to get done, despite the very best efforts not only of the Petroleum Industry (which seems to have set itself up as one of the only sources of ethanol pricing information) but also of participants in the ethanol industry (ADM, et. al.)
One of the ways would be to make use of one or more of the folks who may be reading who could, once a week or once a month send information as to ethanol pricing, be it in a straightforwrd form (here is what I paid or charged this week, wholesale or retail, for ethanol in thus-and-such form) or a bit more roundabout compromise (here is what my local station is charging for E85, or here is the information I am stealing from a paid subscription publication which provides pricing). A person such as yourself could commit a few minutes per month or per week to receiving the information from one or more sources and posting it as a courtesy to the ethanol community. There are several legal pitfalls that would possibly be eventually used against you, such as if the information was stolen from a paid subscription, or if the pricing was of ethanol in non-denatured form, because then the ATF might have some pretext for getting involved (I think the built-in pricing of dealing with the anti-drug bureaucracy is a ridiculous problem that drives up the cost of ethanol, but I have no way at present to show this). I think the question would be to make it a steady commitment rather than posting info, say, once per week and then backing off in 10 weeks. As you know from being a webmaster, there's little more annoying than web pages which change URL's or change their projects. Other challenges would be to clarify for the reader how the subsidies affect the pricing and precisely what pricing is being posted (i.e., is it before the maker has to pay for gasoline to denature the ethanol or after, etc.) The webmaster who sets up this pricing information page will, so far as I am able to determine, be the only easily-accessible free source of ethanol pricing in the world, and the page which carries that information could boast of that fact, should the webmaster wish. There is a URL at methanex which partly demonstrates an example of what I'm describing, done for methanol instead of ethanol. The pricing is not something you'd use for day-trading or anything, it's just posted month-to-month, apparently in order to help investors of methanex to understand the pricing of the product made by the company they've invested in. A helpful thing, it seems to me, even if it comes from a company I do not always like. Heaven forfend that folks who are being browbeaten into believing this or that commodity is worth investing in and pushing-for should have basic pricing of that commodity made available to them, so they can understand what the heck is going on. As it stands for ethanol, I have no way of knowing at present, if I didn't have some involvement, if we're talking $1.25 per gallon or $1250.00 per gallon (except I think there would be a riot at the local bar in the latter case). I'd provide the Methanex URL but last time I went there my computer blue-screened, and so let me see if I can save this first. Ok, here is the Methanex URL. http://www.methanex.com/methanol/currentprice.htm It is linked prominently from their home page. They've been doing this for years. Later, MM ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> FREE COLLEGE MONEY CLICK HERE to search 600,000 scholarships! http://us.click.yahoo.com/DlIU9C/4m7CAA/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/
