Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 16:05:25 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Foss - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Foss - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Ethanol..Corn only?
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I don't know, it concerns all us vanagon owners since that affects the
price of what we pay for fuel.
yeah, joke isn't it.
there really is hardly much net gain anywhere over good ole petroleum
gasoline, not in the bigger picture when you count all the factors.
Ethoal takes a ton of water to produce i believe.
it's a net loss and they will have to wake up one of these days.
Jake de Villiers wrote:
> The third problem and the biggest, is that it consumes more oil in
> petroleum for production and petrochemicals than it yields, but that
> subject is for a different List. :)
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Scott Foss - Shazam
> <scottdaniel@turbovans.com <mailto:scottdaniel@turbovans.com>> 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
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Jake
> 1984 Vanagon GL
> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
> Crescent Beach, BC
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