Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.
Posted on 07/23/2008 7:25:11 PM PDT by neverdem
The ethanol industry, until recently a golden child that got favorable treatment from Washington, is facing a critical decision on its future.
Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is asking the Environmental Protection Agency to temporarily waive regulations requiring the oil industry to blend ever-increasing amounts of ethanol into gasoline. A decision is expected in the next few weeks.
Mr. Perry says the billions of bushels of corn being used to produce all that mandated ethanol would be better suited as livestock feed than as fuel.
Feed prices have soared in the last two years as fuel has begun competing with food for cropland.
“When you find yourself in a hole, you have to quit digging,” Mr. Perry said in an interview. “And we are in a hole.”
His request for an emergency waiver cutting the ethanol mandate to 4.5 billion gallons, from the 9 billion gallons required this year and the 10.5 billion required in 2009, is backed by a coalition of food, livestock and environmental groups.
Farmers and ethanol and other biofuel producers are lobbying to keep the existing mandates.
“This is a critically important decision that will determine the future of biofuels in this country,” said Brent Erickson, a lobbyist at the Biotechnology Industry Organization, which supports the ethanol mandates. “There will be a dramatic reaction from whoever loses.”
The E.P.A. received 15,000 public comments on the Texas proposal, roughly split between those in favor and those against...
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Senator Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, accused the Grocery Manufacturers Association, the group leading the public relations fight against ethanol, of “treasonous” acts...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
How much more corn starch should you have in your diet?
Go take a flying leap at a rolling donut!
Alcohol is a crappy fuel!
is not
It screwed up California gas and lowered milage and i’m assuming you have never raced with it and from your page it sounds like you’re in Canada, STAY THERE AND DON’T INFECT CALIFORNIA!
I’ve run it in midgets, sprints, champ cars, and unlimited hydros and it’s unfit for street use!
Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.
So how do you argue with that logic? It’s bad because he says so.
This article doesn’t go deep enough into the BRIBE paid to Perry to do this. He also strong-armed his alma mater because he didn’t like the results of a study that they’d done.
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2008_4592930
What part of my page sounds like canada?
I’m more worried about california infecting the rest of north america...and south as well.
see post 42. THat’s how.
Oops. I meant 43.
i.e. Senator "Greed" Grassley. Putting dollars ahhead of sense.
The figures below are not lying. No matter how you slice it, the greater the percentage of oxygen (and indeed hydrogen) that is present in the fuel, the lower the amount of energy available in the fuel. It is nearly akin to that particular carbon already being burned. Compare, especially, Ethanol with Methanol, which has an even greater percentage (by weight, number) of oxygen already combined.
| Fuel type | MJoules/L | MJoules/kg | . BTU/Imp.gal | . BTU/US.gal |
| Regular Gasoline | 34.8 | 47 | 150,100 | 125,000 |
| Ethanol | 23.5 | 31.1 | 101,600 | 84,600 |
| Methanol | 17.9 | 19.9 | 77,600 | 64,600 |
| Gasohol (10% EtOH) | 33.7 | 145,200 | 120,900 | |
| Diesel | 38.6 | 166,600 | 138,700 | |
| Aviation gasoline | 33.5 | 46.8 | 144,400 | 120,200 |
| Liquified Nat.Gas | 25.3 | 55 | 109,000 | 90,800 |
Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.
I’m not sure what you are trying to prove. I don’t really care what the BTUs per gallon are. BTUs per pound is slightly useful, but even that is NOT an indicator of engine efficiency or potential power output.
Notice that aviation fuel is less than automotive fuel in your own chart??? Would you care to explain why those dummies in the aviation industry are using an inferior fuel compared to all of us slugs on the ground?/s
The answer is that BTUs per gallon are totally unimportant figures.
Sorry, try again.
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