Brazilians paying pennies on the Gallon for Ethanol, while Ameircans get Price gouged

[52ndStreet]

The Brazilians are paying pennies on the Gallon for Ethanol flex fuels, while we Americans are being raped and price gouged by American Big three Oil Companies.!!$?!! at the pump.!!$$$$!!

 

[RetiredGySgt]

What part of " Ethanol as made in the US uses more GAS to make then it produces" Don't you UNDERSTAND?

 

[editec]

What part of " Ethanol as made in the US uses more GAS to make then it produces" Don't you UNDERSTAND?

All of it, actually.

!!!rhetorical question alert!!!

Why do we make ethanol out of corn?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

All of it, actually.



Why do we make ethanol out of corn?

Ask Obama. He has sold out to that lobby early on.

 

[editec]

Ask Obama. He has sold out to that lobby early on.

Don't doubt it.

He bought that franchise from Dole, didn't he?

Still the question remains...why corn?

 

[Charles_Main]

Don't doubt it.

He bought that franchise from Dole, didn't he?

Still the question remains...why corn?

because the corn industry has a powerful lobby?

 

[Shogun]

It's beyond me why we don't scrap federal payments to people who DONT farm their land (in order to maintain a market prices) and use THAT farmed land for corn to be used for fuel.


Farm Program Pays $1.3 Billion to People Who Don't Farm
Farm Program Pays $1.3 Billion to People Who Don't Farm - washingtonpost.com

 

[editec]

because the corn industry has a powerful lobby?

Bingo.

 

[busara]

What part of " Ethanol as made in the US uses more GAS to make then it produces" Don't you UNDERSTAND?

there is plenty of evidence to dispute that opinion

Is ethanol energy-efficient?: Journey to Forever
New Rules Project - Agriculture - The Energetics of Ethanol: An Introduction and Link to Studies

from the 2002 USDA study...

Production of corn-ethanol is energy efficient, in that it yields 34 percent more energy than it takes to produce it, including growing the corn, harvesting it, transporting it, and distilling it into ethanol.

i feel we need to switch to a more efficient crop though, like algae or sweet sorghum

 

[editec]

I've read that the ratio of energy consumed to enrgy created with corn is 1: 1.34

With sugar cane based enthanol is more like 1: 7