Axis of Ethanol

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY ^ | 8 Feb 2007 | Staff

[Kitten Festival]

Burn corn squeezins, make Chavez drink his oil.

[xcamel]

Burn corn, half the 3rd world will starve.
bad, bad choice.

[Calpernia]

ping

[GSlob]

Together with all other drinkers, I'm a proud Axis of Ethanol member. Ted K. is an honorary chair, BTW.

[IronJack]

Burn corn, half the 3rd world will starve.

Boo hoo.

[Dajjal]

tortilla bump

[mylife]

Brazil has a surplus of sugar cane based ethanol, it makes sense to buy that from brazil rather than produce corn based ethanol here which is far more expensive to produce and does effect food prices.

Ethanol is an ok stopgap measure to place a thumb in the eye of chavez and the mullas but it is not the long term solution

[SouthTexas]

Brazil also has found a new offshore oil reserve.

[dynachrome]

Make your own. The gubmint requires you add stuff to make it undrinkable.

http://www.ethanolstill.com/

[mylife]

Yes, and thats what we need to do. Sink oil wells and look at shale oil

[Drammach]

Burn corn, half the 3rd world will starve. bad, bad choice.

Sugar Beets..
Lots & lots of sugar beets..

[SouthTexas]

There's lots of oil in ANWR!

[xcamel]

It does neither, and using food for fuel is about as stupid as the human race can get, unless the whole scam is based on junk science to begin with, which makes it waaay beyond dumb.

[SierraWasp]

Ethanol = Unsustainable, subsidized, food burning, mileage ruining, non-pipelinable, corrosive, caustic, economically backward FRAUD!!!

[Taichi]

Ethanol is an OK stopgap measure to place a thumb in the eye of Chavez and the mullahs but it is not the long term solution


Exactly, it is not good enough but if we can use it in the short term, it might be worth the rise in food coast and extra pollution just to be able to tell some of these oil blackmailers where to go and how to get there and what to do when they've arrived.

[mylife]

By the way, this really does hurt chavez as America is one of the only places that can refine their crappy "heavy sulphourous crude" He cant sell to a lot of people. We are his best customer.

It will be intersting to see if Silva does buisness with us.
It would be a crack in chavez's vision for SA

[mylife]

Ethanol is pretty lame as far as energy goes and I agree that food should be used as food rather than an inefficient fuel.

Ethanol has tons of problems, but if it means freedom from energy tryany in the short term, I say play the card

[mylife]

Before you all beat me up, I agree with every point youve made

[SouthTexas]

I also heard he is having problems with his infrastructure also. Seems this happens to many tyrants that nationalize their oil industry.

I'd like the see what would happen to the price of oil if we opened ANWR. Bet it would get real reasonable real quick. ;)

[dalereed]

All you said plus tell the enviros to go pound sand and start using the hundreds of years of oil that lie under California and off it's coast.