[annelizly]

as much as i'm in favor of being independent from foreign oil my biggest concern in NOT that or global warming....my biggest concern is the price! Maybe that makes me short sighted and selfish but I can't raise my family if the price of fuel rises and so does the price of groceries.

Keep things cheap! I need to live people!

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It will get cheaper, but outside forces are fighting tooth and nail to defeat it. There is no difference in imported ethanol made from sugar cane than domestic made from corn. The farmers are getting a monopoly right at the moment with corn. It can be made from rice( Texas & La.), Potatoes( Idaho), Sugar beets, sorghum, etc. The corn farmers have everyone believing ethanol comes from corn. Africa could produce these crops cheaply and have an export, The same for Central America, and the Dominican Rep. and Hatti. Brazil has a surplus to export right now.

The high price is artificial caused by a handful of farm states in the mid west. It can also be made from coal. It might take a year or so to make commercial quantities to scale because it's a little harder than making a backyard still. We have 200 years of coal.

Within the next 5-10 years, we should have comercial quanities of celulose made ethanol.( grass, pine needles, wood chips, trash, you name it). You may even have people pay you for your grass clippings. In short, ethanol is high because of politics, not supply.