Comments on: Moonshine to Replace Gasoline in America’s Cars

By: keitho

keitho — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:21:51 +0000

Since we (ihe government) subsidize ethanol producers 51 cents a gallon, who can guess where this alternative thing will go?

By: Rick DeMent

Rick DeMent — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:57:30 +0000

McGehee,

Had to happen sooner or later, but look at the bright side, now we can go back to our normal MO of antagonistic bickering [grin].

By: legion

legion — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:15:01 +0000

[insert Uncle Jesse/Dukes of Hazzard joke here]

By: Wayne

Wayne — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:16:01 +0000

The price in Brazil is about $3.12 per gallon. They donâ??t have as large of economy of U.S. You have to make special engines to run off of high % ethanol. In U.S. it cost about $2.96 per gallon to produce ethanol compare to approx $2.30 in oil base gas. The $.50 to $.68 of tax the government puts in a gallon make them somewhat comparable but government will tax ethanol if it were to become a high enough % of gas use. If you want to pay extra money for alternative fuel go ahead. I want the cheap stuff.

http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/

By: McGehee

McGehee — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:39:17 +0000

OK well ethanol can and will be an adjunct to the energy mix. It cannot replace, or even make a large dent in our energy problems because of scale.

Rick is right.

[...]

Rick?

Somebody get the smelling salts!

By: Rick DeMent

Rick DeMent — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:12:15 +0000

OK well ethanol can and will be an adjunct to the energy mix. It cannot replace, or even make a large dent in our energy problems because of scale. If we used all the currently available land currently used for growing corn and their stalks, we would be able to produce exactly 0.4 % of your current usage of gasoline(and Gas has more kick so the .4 number is naively optimistic).

I love the idea that new technologies are being investigated, but the idea they we can get though this without drastically impacting our consumption or economy is a pipe dream.

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By: Rodney Dill

Rodney Dill — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:24:56 +0000

(on your comments)

Nice.

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