-Caveat Lector-
Subject: [JBirch] Ethanol is a disaster,
but is being promoted. Follow the money...
The article starts:
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Ethanol Eco-Disaster
(Fade in) The delicate, fainting environment is in distress; it can't pay
its fuel bill. Heroic Merry Men of the IRS carrying MP5s and wearing green
tights hold up the sneering, selfish, unworthy middle class. They give the
looted bank accounts to the noble corn-ethanol producers. The chairman of
Archer Daniels Midland rides off into the beautiful sunset on his yacht,
waving his stock options. (The Happy Ending)
The Math-based Version
Let's take the very rosiest assumptions for corn ethanol, from the paid PR
flacks who lobby for the subsidy. They claim that it takes 35,000 BTUs of
energy to make 77,000 BTUs of ethanol from corn. No one else gets a ratio
anywhere near that good; some calculations show that corn ethanol actually
costs energy to make (and fuel ethanol only has 76,100 BTU per gallon
according to the EPA). But even this most unrealistic case assumes that
about half the energy in a gallon of subsidized ethanol has to come from
somewhere else. For comparison, it takes around 22,000 BTU to make a gallon
of gasoline. Gasoline contains about 114,000 BTU per gallon, so there's a
clear energy profit.
Looking at market price instead of BTUs, on June 6 wholesale cost for
ethanol was around $2.67 per gallon, vs. 2.09 for gasoline. This isn't
counting the cost of the subsidies; even cheating, corn ethanol still isn't
as good as gasoline. And mixing the ethanol in to make gasohol adds further
refining costs.
So, the ethanol programs force us to pay more per gallon for a diluting fuel
additive that gives only 2/3 the miles per gallon. This means more gas
station stops, more wasted time and gas. And the ecological effect of each
fuel?
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It gets worse. Read the rest at http://www.lewrockwell.com/walker/walker23.html
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