Posted on 04/21/2006 5:13:16 AM PDT by Bloodclot
Don't forget CAFE regs that will kill SUVs. Better think about buying a new one and putting it in storage for 10 years.
If we had done REASONABLE THINGS(Nuke, Coal, Hydro-Electric) instead of wasting BILLIONS on pie-in-the-sky politicly-correct pipedreams like solar/wind, we wouldn't be in this boat, either........
We're HERE, NOW...
If we start TODAY, it's STILL going to take 10 years to dig out of this using technology we ALREADY have.....
Bravo Sierra
Sugar only works in Brazil because they have very low wages; third world safety standards, and the ethanol plants are based on the sugar plantations. Unlike corn, sugar beets and sugar cane must be processed within 24 hours of harvesting; therefore the ethanol plants must be at the location where it is grown.
Also, many people are killed in the Brazilian ethanol plants each year because there are no safety regulations and the plants and equipment are very poor quality construction. Explosions are common.
Brazil is one of the few places in the world where ethanol from sugar cane or sugar beets is profitable.
From an economic standpoint you can not profitably make ethanol from sugar if the cost of sugar is more than 6 cents a lb. The reason corn works in the US is because our harvesting is highly mechanized and the distribution infrastructure highly developed. There is virtually no sugar production anymore in the US.
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