I heard the same unsubstantiated stuff 30-35 years ago when "gasohol"
first came out. how many cars sold in Brazil are different that what
is sold here? not much. Toada doesn't make "brazil only" cars, nor
do US manufacturers.
The anti -ethanol lobby uses outdated information about outdated
process to misinform the public and support the house of saud and
other petroleum interests. This list is made up of many very
intelligent people. I am appalled that you ignore all the subsidies
for petroleum, all the "foreign aid" and defense budget that goes to
support the petroleum industry, and repeat the arab-petroleum
propaganda that is just not true. Please research credible sources
of information and count the petroleum subsidies to be fair.
Yes, there is currently a tax credit for BLENDERS of alcohol fuel.
Not for farmers, not for ethanol plants, but for the blenders, who
are primarily petroleum distributors and petroleum companies. That
blenders credit is about to go away Jan 1 without your input.
Current ethanol technology is way ahead of technology used 30 years
ago. It is also outdated. Ethanol will not go away. The production
costs will just get lower. Right now, all current ethanol plants are
outdated.
Corn ethanol for vehicle fuel is about to be displaced by cellulosic
ethanol. The technology is here now. No plants are built yet, but
the technology is here now. I have seen it work. Cost of production
is estimated to be less than a dollar a gallon for pure ethanol
versus about $1.80-$2/gal for corn ethanol. Feedstock is essentially
anything green and growing, including trees. If you know anyone with
a million or three sitting on the sidelines, this is a good
investment. A very large company who makes a lot of alcohol from
sugar cane is already licensing the technology. This new process
lowers the production cost and increased the alcohol yield from their
sugar cane.
I have never been a fan of corn alcohol. But ethanol as a fuel is
well proven. There is no reason to bash it in support of the
arab-petroleum-opec folks.
Last week some uninformed columnist in ORLANDO, FL bashed ethanol,
and that is really ironic, because FL was screaming the loudest about
the oil in the Gulf this summer, claiming gulf oil tarballs were on
their beaches. The last I heard, the FL tarballs analyzed were not
from the blown out well.
It is the greenie weenies that have mandated low emissions, thus
requiring oxygenated "gasoline" fuels. Which would you rather be
around, MTBE or ethyl alcohol? I will pick pure Kaintucky feud oil
anytime over a poisonous carcinogen. Alcohol is the best oxygenating
agent available.
You can make alcohol out of taters, termaters, sugar beets or
whatever, if you'd rather eat field corn to save the field corn from
the disgrace of being turned into alcohol and pork as our forebearers
have done since hitting these shores. Ever read about the whiskey
rebellion?
I'd rather eat the taters and termaters and pork and let the hogs and
poultry eat the corn or DDG. Ethyl alcohol has been around for a
long time, and will not go away. Cheers!
Problem is that 10% seems to be *generally* OK (except for boaters
where it is a HUGE problem, and for your home power equipment) but
above that it can get problematic for older fuel systems that can
corrode or dissolve. Approval to go to 15% will cause lots of
problems, both with vehicles and equipment as well as economic.
This is purely pandering to the farm.ethanol lobby, is energy
inefficient, and will cost us all lots more money to get some votes
for the politicians (all of them, not just the present crowd).
--R
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