Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 19:23:09 -0500
Reply-To: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: Ethanol..Corn only?
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A new farm bill recently passed is going to make a lot of BIG CORPORATE
farmers richer. The little family farmer - no so. This is all about the
power of corporate America to get what they want. The rich have to be
bought off before the little guy gets his chance. The whole thing sucks.
BTW, with 10% ethanol you ain't getting what you are trying to pay for.
The price of fuels keeps going up, but that dab of ethanol in the tank -
it will lower your gas mileage per gallon. So though we are paying more,
we ain't even holding our own on the gas mileage. If you can find the
straight stuff (gasoline) burn the straight stuff.!
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Scott Foss - Shazam wrote:
> Well Don !
> I think you NAILED IT - obviously our fuel should be 10 % Rum !!!
>
> But i think you have the general gist of 'the problem' regarding
> congress mandaated corn to make fuel.......
> And as i saw in a political cartoon about ethanol -
> I think it's making a lot of farmers rich right now too, or the new Farm
> Bill will.
>
> it's expensive to make,
> and it makes food prices go up.
> ( and there was a 3rd slam on it, but i forget what it was just now ) ..
> scott
> turbovans
>
> Don Hanson wrote:
>> This talk about Ethanol mixed into pump gas. Can one only make
>> Ethanol from
>> Corn, or does any fermenting plant produce it? Did I imagine reading
>> somewhere that our Gov. decreed corn to be *the* designated
>> bio-source for
>> ethanol over other plants that might be more productive when turned into
>> 'go-juice'? Like sugar cane, sugar beets, etc? Seems like using
>> only corn
>> is a waste, since corn is also a pretty widely eaten food source for
>> humans,
>> while cane and beets just make sugar, mainly...and rum...
>> Hmmm..maybe Rum is important to those Oil Boys who are in charge right
>> now...
>> VW van content: Back in my Split window Hippy Van days, we used to
>> make a
>> home brew we called "Pineapple Swipe". Took only a few days to get
>> pretty
>> strong, so we'd mix up a batch when we left on a long surfing trip,
>> stash it
>> in the back of the van and later on throw a big party..."Pineapple
>> Swipe"
>> because we often swiped the base ingredient: pineapples...Little
>> criminals
>> and hooligans that we were (are?)
>> Don Hanson
>>
>>
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