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CA: The Farce About Ethanol... (Tom McClintock)
Citizens for the California Republic ^ | 06-26-2007 | Tom McClintock

Posted on 06/28/2007 8:53:45 PM PDT by calcowgirl

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To: calcowgirl
Unless Pacific Ethanol has re-written the laws of chemistry, ethanol is produced by converting glucose into two parts ethanol and two parts carbon dioxide. The chemical equation is C6H12O6 = 2C2H5OH + 2CO2.

Maybe one of the Free Republic's many ChemistryWizKids can convert this to a nice handy number that we can use to club the Greenies.

How about a conversion to tons of CO2 per gallon of ethanol produced? Yes, it will be a small number expressed in tons but that seems to be the way CO2 is counted.

41 posted on 06/29/2007 6:36:56 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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It’s best to just let the market play out. Let people figure out what to do in ways that work...and make sense in all forms, financial, moral, etc.

Always the best economic sense. What is the CARB edict? Sounds like another stupid government thing to prevent the free market from doing just that. Oh, BTW, if the stupid government would just get out of the way, there would be plenty of incentives to tap into our rich oil and energy resources as well as finding economically sound alternatives. As Reagan used to say (countering Carter's stupid self-imposed "Energy Crisis"), "America is not energy poor, it is energy rich".

42 posted on 06/30/2007 12:17:19 PM PDT by Jim W N
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