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Ethanol Home Making
The American Coalition for Ethanol supports the consumer's right to know if gasoline contains ethanol, but we don't favor labels that appear more like a warning label or a poison sticker. This can be detrimental because people will shy away from purchasing something they are not familiar with or something that looks potentially harmful.
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Ethanol Home Making
| January 5th, 2009 02:22 PM
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Economist: 'Blending Wall' Stands In Way Of Ethanol Growth - CattleNetwork.com
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Ethanol production opened the door to the renewable fuels industry. The industry now must get past an imposing wall of federal regulations and market conditions if it hopes to grow, said a Purdue University agricultural economist. "The ethanol ...
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| January 6th, 2009 12:19 PM
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AgSight: Lots Of Pieces To The Puzzle! - CattleNetwork.com
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1/6/2009 11:29:00 AM AgSight: Lots Of Pieces To The Puzzle! Obvious to all readers, the ethanol industry is predicated on changing one source of energy (corn) to another (ethanol). Basic that may be, it’s fundamental to characterizing the ...
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Starved For Energy
Energy: Despite huge subsidies and tax breaks, the only thing ethanol seems to be accomplishing is eating up the corn supply. Consider that one tankful of ethanol could feed one person for a year. If there were an example of the law of unintended consequences, it would be ethanol, a fuel aimed at making us energy independent by relying on a homegrown resource corn. A year ago Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels decided his corn-rich state would make ethanol use widespread. He designated the town of Reynolds, population 550, "BioTown USA." Reynolds was to be a showcase, the first town to run entirely on renewable energy. But the law of supply and demand got in the way. The question quickly arose: Do you install ethanol pumps at $50,000 a pop when there are few cars to line up at them or do you try to sell vehicles that use ethanol when there's no place to fill up? There are 6.5 million flex-fuel vehicles in use nationwide, less than 2.5% of all vehicles.
Chocola: Explore, conserve more fuel
SOUTH BEND -- U.S. Rep. Chris Chocola says he has a four-point plan for reducing energy costs that starts with finding a way to lessen its reliance on foreign oil and includes increased domestic exploration, more conservation and making sure that price gouging isn't tolerated.
Energy costs become a "personal experience" when we pay $3 a gallon at the pump, Chocola said, but the whole cost of energy includes the fuel we buy to heat our homes and even buying things made out of plastic.
To start with, Chocola said, "we need to have alternative sources of energy like renewable fuels, which is ethanol, biodiesel and also alternative fuels, which would be things like wind, solar and battery."
"We also need to increase domestic production of traditional fuels, like oil and gas," he said.
Honey, We Killed the Planet
God and/or the cosmos may be infinite, but nothing else is. Hence it is a lead-pipe certainty that human beings are going to run out of oil. The only question is when. There is no agreement on this, but forty years from now is often cited as the moment when the world's pipelines will go gurgle, gurgle, glug and nothing will come out except a gasping sound. More likely, there will still be some oil around in 2046, but you and I will not be able to afford it. As the end of oil approaches, the price of this commodity, which was once sold for 10 cents a barrel, will approximate the current price of beluga caviar. Beluga, of course, comes from the roe of the sturgeon, a fish once abundant in the Caspian Sea. Thanks to the unbridled appetite of caviar lovers, and those who catch and sell it, the fish has all but disappeared.
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