Science – No doubt about it, if there were a Miss Energy Pageant, Miss Ethanol would win hands down. Everyone loves ethanol. "Ramp up the availability of ethanol," says Hillary Clinton. "Ethanol makes a lot of sense," says John McCain. "The economics of ethanol make more and more sense," says Mitt Romney. "We've
Anyone with common sense, which politicians lack, can see this pipedream of corn replacing oil is not feasible. A crop can not be relied on as reliable and available because it is weather dependent. To get such massive amounts of corn to produce the needed ethanol we would be right back in to the importing from other countries and put our dependency on these foreign grown corn. Back where we stated from, foreign dependence. The dependence we have on foreign oil is not just for gas for your cars. Think about everything that is a product of oil, the car body, the car tires, the medicines you take, the food you eat, fertilizers for food, insulation for your home, the TV you watch, the milk carton you drink from. The oil produced and brought out of the US underground supply, much of it goes to foreign countries. The Alaska pipe line oil goes to Japan. Oil in the US does not stay in the US, its exported for higher profits. US oil is cheaper than imported oil so exporting is very profitable.
OK, first of all, there is a distinction between ethanol and ethanol from corn as proposed. The fixation on corn for ethanol and soybeans for biodiesel stems from the fact that Archer Daniels Midland virtually owns congress, and ADM grows corn and soybeans, not sugar cane.
Using corn for ethanol is just not the greatest idea, particulrly when it can be produced from other sources including cellulosic biomasses without impacting our food supplies.
But a much better bet is biodiesel from algae. Consider, some blue-green algae strains are 50% oil by weight, and the stuff grows rapidly in polluted water. What remains after the oil is extracted is high in protein and a great livestock feed. Algae could be producing huge volumes of biodiesel while cleaning polluted water and feeding livestock. But Archer Daniels Midland doesn't grow algae.
Electrocon, Diesel car: $20,000. Biodiesel fuel kit: $4000. Lye and additive: .70 gallon. Full tank: $9.10. Priceless.
Yeah, buddy. I think biodiesel is a GREAT option. Heck, some restaurants give away their used oil, which they normally have to PAY to dispose of. Canada is building a HUGE biodiesel 'refinery' (or whatever you call it) that should be up and running a couple years.
The main reason I'm partial to electric cars is because the electric motor has one moving part. One. Virtually maintenance-free, relatively inexpensive to replace (after, say, 250,000 to 500,000 miles or more), and it runs on juice you can get from an outlet or solar panels on your roof.
My ideal hookup would be to have solar panels for sunny days and a biodiesel generator to make electricity on cloudy days or at night.
I think LordyLordy has a great idea. Pig manure, lots of it. I wonder if producing ethanol cost more in energy to produce a gallon of it as it does a gallon of gas. Of course you can't produce enough to run our autos, we do have to eat. Bio fuels might help some but it looks as if we will need gas for a long time to come.
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The Jerusalem artichoke plant has far greater ethanol yield than corn. Also, I know the Chinese woman who has the patent on an enzyme she discovered in the gut of Panda Bears which can turn any form of crop or trash into fuel ethanol. She's been negotiating with the oil companies for over a decade to no avail. They have us by the short hairs. The Iraq war is not about getting the oil to use, it's about keeping it off the market so OPEC can price fix. The U.S. actually gets more of it oil now from Africa than the middle east. The tar sands of Canada and Venezuala hold more oil than all the middle east.