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To: AmericanVictory

Is it barely possible that energy investors see the E-II fuel as a boondoggle or is this just a pejorative term for ETOH? ETOH has been a renewable fuel for more than 35 years in this country and I expect it to continue for many more decades. It has saved the importation of billions of barrels of foreign oil and will likely continue in that same vein. Let me know when I can fill the tank with low-performance E-II. At least I will give it a shot if it is cost-effective. It seems that wind, solar, hydrogen, coal gasification are all making inroads. I don’t see E-II on the horizon and I strongly suspect it has many problems yet to be mentioned.


133 posted on 12/01/2008 10:26:34 AM PST by Neoliberalnot ((Hallmarks of Liberalism: Ingratitude and Envy))
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To: Neoliberalnot
It has saved the importation of billions of barrels of foreign oil and will likely continue in that same vein.

Billions of Barrels of imports? Do you have any information related to the consumption and production of ethanol to support that?

Here is some more recent data:

http://www.ethanolrfa.org/industry/statistics/

134 posted on 12/01/2008 10:51:20 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Neoliberalnot

But then again, you obviously know nothing about it and clearly have not read the patent. It is not, like ethanol, a boondoggle.

Then again, also, you are obviously completely ignorant of what I have pointed out to you about disruptive technology and the difficulties that better inventions face when they threaten the way a handful of dominant companies are doing business.

Let me give you another famous example: Sears and the socket wrench. Here’s another quite recent one. Palm and the graffitti language, illustrating that the Silicon Valley model is no better than that followed by the likes of Ford and Sears when they were dominant.

As I say skepticism is not a curable disease and, in the words of Walter Williams, you are not only ignorant, you are arrogant. But stick with your boondoggle and help the other side in this war. You should be proud to be an assister to the Islamists. They have so much to contribute.


139 posted on 12/01/2008 11:31:45 AM PST by AmericanVictory
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