Posted on 03/06/2006 11:00:00 AM PST by kellynla
Washington, DC [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) announced that the U.S. ethanol industry set annual production records in 2005, producing just less than 4 billion gallons (3.904 billion gallons) and averaging nearly 255,000 barrels of ethanol production daily, according to data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
"These figures represent not only the tremendous growth our industry is experiencing, but also the future growth that will occur," said RFA President Bob Dinneen.
"Demand for ethanol will only continue to grow as refiners remove MTBE from the marketplace and more Americans switch to this clean burning, renewable fuel," said Dinneen. "The U.S. ethanol industry, with 2.1 billion gallons of capacity currently under construction, will continue to expand to meet this soaring demand."
Currently, 95 ethanol plants have a combined production capacity of more than 4.3 billion gallons a year.
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Hhmmm...Someone like ADM, for instance?
So THAT'S who's behind FTAA.
I didn't wonder.
Interesting how you choose to blow right by my challenge to disprove the claim that more politicians have been bought off by ethanol producers last year than in any previous year.
If it's such a great alternative, why are all the ethanazis like yourself opposed to allowing retailers to sell ethanol side by side with gasoline (thus allowing consumers to choose) instead of mandating its use?
The questions are just gonna keep piling up, and I won't allow you to simply evade.
It may not stay "cheap" if we buy all of their output.
How much to cultivate?
Oh, sorry. You caught me. See #98.
"I won't allow you to simply evade."
I quit takings orders thirty years ago!
fyi, genius when you are ready to enlist in the U.S.M.C. and put your arse on the line in the Middle East then you will be on an equal playing field to "ask" my opinion...
and fyi I take exception to you calling me a "ethanazis"
consider yourself dismissed!
It's the states that restrict it. Iowa has had E85 next to gas for at least 10 years. The other problem is auto manufacturers being behind the curve on compatibility so the states that do allow it just don't have a need for it. As for federal mandates, it's no different than the feds forcing Digital over Analog.
You got that right.
Brazil's ethanol measures may force Petrobras to cut exports
God I hate hearing that liberal tripe. Most of our imported oil doe not come from the Middle East. If you want to bitch about the cost of imported oil just look north and south. Have we invaded Canada and Mexico so we can have cheap gas?
And I'm all for a sound domestic energy program. Construct more Nuclear power plants, drill in Alaska, California, and the Gulf of Mexico for oil, and promote alternative fuels without subsidizing everyone.
"liberal tripe?"
let me ask you something, genius
how many years of combat do you have in your DD214?
I think I found your source:
"Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - After nearly three decades of work, Brazil has succeeded where much of the industrialized world has failed: It has developed a cost-effective alternative to gasoline. Along with new offshore oil discoveries, that's a big reason Brazil expects to become energy independent this year.
To see how, take a look at Gildo Ferreira, a 39-year-old real-estate executive, who pulled his VW Fox into a filling station one recent afternoon. Instead of reaching for the gasoline, he spent $29 to fill up his car on ethanol made from sugar cane, an option that's available at 29,000 gas stations from Rio to the Amazon. A comparable tank of gasoline would have cost him $36. "It's cheaper and it's made here in Brazil," Mr. Ferreira says of ethanol. If the price of oil stays at current levels, he can expect to save about $350 a year.
At current prices, Brazil can make ethanol for about $1 a gallon, according to the World Bank. That compares with the international price of gasoline of about $1.50 a gallon."
Two comments:
A VW Fox has a 12.4 gallon tank so it would seem that $29.00 gallon would be well over $2.50/gallon cost to the consumer.
The fuel efficiency of pure ethanol seems to be exaggerated here if that $29 would have been $36 for gasoline which easily goes 30% more miles.
Anyway, the producers are still riding the crest of the subsidies there and only now are they in a position to export economically.
If ethanol can be made to compete profitably here then it will happen, unless the politicians mess it up.
I read somewhere that changed in 2004.
Argonne expert addresses energy, environmental impacts of fuel ethanol
ARGONNE, Ill. (Aug. 23, 2005) — A recent national debate has arisen over the net energy and environmental benefits of ethanol as a substitute for gasoline in transportation fuels. Argonne researcher Michael Wang, a world-leading expert in this field, presented the results of his research today at the Ethanol Energy Open Forum, sponsored by the National Corn Growers Association at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
Conclusions from Wang's presentation include:
Energy balance value alone is not meaningful in evaluating the benefit of ethanol or any other energy product. For proper evaluation, a product's energy balance must be compared with that of the product it replaces.
Compared to gasoline, any type of fuel ethanol substantially helps reduce fossil energy and petroleum use.
Ethanol produced from corn can achieve moderate reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
Ethanol produced from "cellulosic" plants, such as grass and weeds, can achieve much greater energy and greenhouse gas benefits.
Ethanol has roughly 2/3 the energy as gasoline; so it takes 50% more.
Where'd you get that number? I'd heard that some nuke plants are operating at over 100% capacity.
and the 69 BILLION DOLLARS that Brazil would have spent on imported oil STAYS IN BRAZIL...
and whatever the cost of ethanol in America;
it's cheaper than the life of one Marine!
Whatever. So only someone with military employment is entitled to an opinion? And yes there are liberals in the military. And yes they have combat experience on their DD214.
Agreed.
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