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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Feel like eduacting yourself?
Go here: http://www.ethanol.org/pdfs/oil_incentive_study.pdf
Which rhythms with rust, which is what I'm worried about in my engines.
Somemore reading for you: http://www.ethanol.org/pdfs/gas.pdf in the event you'd like to educate yourself with facts.
When? If so, you have a license to print money. When it's costing every large company over $2 a gallon to produce and Brazil is producing it at $1 a gallon after 20 years of government mandated usage, you can do it for $.25 a gallon? You could be a Billionaire and solve the energy crisis to boot!
I'm going to assume you mean ((more expensive) ethanol) as in more expensive than gasoline as opposed to (more (expensive ethanol)). If I'm wrong, let me know.
That claim is debatable and it certainly isn't necessarily true with oil prices as they are now and seem likely to be for some time. Further, ethanol is quite amenable to improvement by technical means, specifically biotechnology. Fundamentally it is about harvesting solar energy which is just as free as petroleum in the ground. I don't see why ethanol cost can't be driven quite low.
Ethanol would reduce volatitlity by diversifying the supply of transportation fuels. It would be a buffer against oil producer manipulations. Oil prices are also highly susceptible to Middle East political scares. It wasn't so long ago that Saddam Hussein was making a killing with cycles of saber rattling interspersed with soothing talk. I suspect we'll see the same again when the Iran nuke problem comes to a head.
It also does not take into account government subsidies and tax credits that add unknown additional costs to the consumer/taxpayer. This would negate any cost savings via biproduct sales.
because ethanol.org does not have an agenda. totally unbaised. Thanks for the heads up. Course when I refer to ExxonMobil they are totally against ethanol and only relay the bad facts, not the good ones over at ethanol.org
Please.
Go look at the links provided - the pdf files are not created by the ethanol.org - and contain facts. Got something against factual information?
>>>This would negate any cost savings via biproduct sales.<<<
Got proof? Back that up with some facts.
No one wants to add the cost of subsidies/tax credits/govenment start up funds to the actual cost of ethanol. I was mearly pointing out that whatever additional income is made off of selling biproducts is negated by the unfactored costs of tax credits, subsidies, and state start up funds. Make sense?
>>>I quote two professors from Berkley and Cornell and everyone screams "you're quoting debunked liberals!
That's because they are two debunked liberals. Their data is decades old, and does not even begin to reflect the current conditions in ethanol production. Asian - look at the pdf's I linked to above - ethanol.org is not the author, they are just passing on information. Apparently, you can't handle that.
>>>Make sense?
Got facts to back up your contention or not?
Yeah, you linked to a report by the CTA. You might want to look them first.
If they're so wrong, give us a link to something that proves it.
Emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are warming the Earth's surface temperature and changing the planet's climate. A broad range of human activities--from driving cars to producing electricity, from clearing forest lands to engaging in industrial agriculture--all contribute to the problem.
Sure, they'll give "Big Oil" a fair shake.
A press release from the Action Committee for Ethanol (ACE PAC)? Come on, you can do better.
If they're so wrong, prove it.
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