Bailout? I’m getting ready to bail out.
Make ethanol illegal insteas of bailing it out!
Ethanol.
Thank you, John McCain and Tim Pawlenty.
Thank you, very little.
This crapola gets terrible mileage, it’s hard on engines and gaskets, it raises the cost of food, it raises taxes.
There is nothing at all good about the stuff ... which of course, would be why congress critters mandated it — perfectly logical. If it made sense, they wouldn’t have anything to do with it.
Obama would be wise to blame ethanol on Bush, and get out of it as fast as he can. This is the problem with pushing alternative fuels before technology can make them competitive. Global freezing needs to put an end to the global warming fraud, and soon. Obama could make himself out to be a visionary, if he were to come out against global warming environmental and energy policies, saying the science behind global warming is uncertain at best, and foolish at its worst. He should then say that we will need all the cheap energy we can get to weather global cooling. But, he’s part of the global warming con job.
Several universities - and several private companies and joint ventures - are working on producing “green crude” from algae. Since this would be a direct replacement for crude oil from petroleum, it seems to me to be the most likely new feedstock if the cost can be brought down. And it might be the best way to capture sunlight in usable form, as well as a way to recycle CO2 from industrial processes.
I would like to see much more R & D in ths area than on new ethanol feedstocks. All of the petroleum that we have found and extracted so far has been derived from prehistoric algae beds, so this would be just a shortcut to the original source.
And if we really need an ethanol replacement, butanol is a far better oxygenator.
So according to the article, the enviros have decided to cut ethanol loose.
Too big to fail?
~ping~