Corn Biofuel
One last comment.
If everyone seems to know that corn biofuel costs more to produce than the equivalent energy available from gasoline, that it requires fertilizers that pollute water, that by displacing wheat production it is causing all food prices to increase, why is corn production being subsidized?
That’s a very good question for Archer Daniels Midland.
I doubt if they would give you much of an answer though. In fact they’d probably kick you out the front door.
In might be interesting to discover how much ADM receives in corn subsidies though. Several articles on the web suggest that it’s really “pigging” out.
Isn’t government of the corporation, by the corporation and for the corporation just wonderful.
I think part of the why-reason is that on day one, the press/magazines/TV/Internet media all thought that making ethanol from corn was one hell of a great idea as an alternative to foreign oil. Great story copy! — much interest! — it generated acceptance through massive PR; sold all of us on the concept. This came first, somewhat like how an idea for turning lead into gold sounds good at first. Any further corn-to-ethanol details involved were ignored. That’s my opinion of why and where it started. Later, Congress (those who now have a stake in this) plus lobbyists equal farm subsidies. And, perhaps, in the long term when the cost of fuel gets higher (maybe like $14 a gallon), corn as ethanol will become cost-effective, but I doubt that Congress will eliminate corn subsidies then; business as usual. Meanwhile….
If only it was a two-way instead of a one-way process, and one could turn ethanol back into food.
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Corn shortage? Let’s everybody in America go on a diet and make the unused, saved sugar into ethanol instead.
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Ethanol costs more to make than gasoline sells for when everything involved with its production is taken into account. Now with the economy meltdown and since the price of corn has dropped to $4 a bushel, as of this month, guess what? It’s a worse negative-dollar proposition.
Thirty per cent of the U.S. corn crop was scheduled for ethanol production by the Bush Administration. Worldwide outrageous food prices are one result of Bush’s ethanol blunder. The better solution would have been to find something other than corn (a food and feed crop) like — it doesn’t matter what — anything or, I should say, most things grown will ferment. Pick and choose something that’s nonfood.
The Model T. that Ford invented had first the intention of being run on any plant stuff that would ferment, but not gasoline. Oh, I should correct, not yet until later as only on gasoline. The solution is to find a better source of ethanol than the corn crop. We need a substitute for the corn.
And other bio-fuels? I suggest we try various forms or plants, evaluate, and test them out. Just keep in mind that corn or any other food/feed crop is a no-no. There is still a chancy hope for a form of ethanol fuel as a substitute for gasoline.
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Stan,
Thanks for reading and your comment
Bill Clinton has said recently in a speech:
“‘If we’re going to do biofuels, we ought to look at the more efficient kind,’ Clinton said, referring, for example, to the jatropha shrub, a nonfood source that grows on land not suitable for grain.”
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It truly is stupidity to burn one’s food.
Suppose me and my cousins sneak up on one of those corn-to-ethanol processing plants that are now shut down due to… due to… low price of corn per bushel and the dizzmal economy with its zig-zagin’, and just suppose…
…we make a few quicky adjustments and turn that argo-industrial gizmo into one hell of a still. Let the corn sit awhile and…MOONSHINE, WHITE LIGHTNING, the BLITZ drink. Why, one good run and we could put West Virginia and Kentucky to shame. And that one run would be enough to drunk up every man, woman, and child in New York City for a week. Let’s do it. I say, to hell with ethanol made from corn. It a sin if one doesn’t use the corn for its God-intended purpose — to make the juice that makes us-all happy, (Warning: Do not drive after one shot of this corn liquor.)
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Well, well. All those acres alloted to growing corn, corn, nothing but corn. And all that borrowed money (mega-bucks) invested in a new factory after another new factory each built to manufacture ethanol from corn farmed on all that land. An industry ranging from farmers’ corn crops to ethanol pumps at filling stations that will soon become obsolete (nada) once electrical-powered cars and even big trucks are the norm in this country. Well, well … so goes it!
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Raising corn for ethanol has become a moneymaker, at a cost, a very high cost. But fiscal reform is needed, so follow the money. Do we feed the cattle in the country, or the congressional cash cow in Washington, DC?
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Once there’s plenty of ethanol available, the price is sure to go up, not down. Why? Because producers/sellers of ethanol will use advertising to win over the consumer from their competitors. And, you better believe it, the advert costs will be passed on to you and me at the pump at higher prices. Just like the market for different brands of gasoline.
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True.
Just as the ‘Name Brands’ pass on to the consumer their advertising costs which made them the ‘Name Brands’ in the first place.
That has been a topic in Economics classes for a long time but it has not changed the system.
Perhaps that’s how politicians recoup their campaign money by charging higher prices for their services also.
“Last term I only needed a $50,000 campaign contribution to vote in favor of your road project but this term I need #150,000
John–
Re Ethanol. Can ethanol be used as a lubricant with condoms? The question of concern with the condoms is whether ethanol will dissolve its plastic like other petroleum products? After all, ethanol is made from corn, so maybe it can have a good use for itself once, after all, with a new market outlet.
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The last remark was said in jest, as a joke. PLEASE DO NOT USE GASOLINE ON YOUR THING.
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