[Rhodes22-list] E85 fuel

[Ronald Lipton]

If you would like to see an interesting overview of the energy  
situation as of
last year this link
   
http://vmsstreamer1.fnal.gov/VMS_Site_03/Lectures/Colloquium/ 
050413Koonin/index.htm
is to a streaming video presentation by Steven Koonin, a physicist who  
took leave
from Cal Tech to become chief scientist at BP.  I think he has a  
balanced perspective.

Ron

On Apr 30, 2006, at 1:19 PM, DCLewis1 at aol.com wrote:

>
> Slim,
>
> Thanks for your info regarding alcol.  I guess Rummy was posting
> figuratively in terms of the effects of the drought on ethanol  
> production.   I
> misunderstood, I took his comment literally. I understood him to mean  
> the  drought had
> literally put the  industry out of business.   I’m  sure a drought  
> will hurt
> ethanol production big time.
>
> I’m not uniquely committed to ethanol.  I would like to see some   
> effort
> invested in alternative, even sustainable, transportation fuels, that   
> could mean
> ethanol, or modified ethanol, or something else.  I think it was  2  
> years ago
> that Pres Bush announced in his State Of The Union speech that the   
> federal
> government was going to spend $15M to develop alternative fuels - and I
> thought, big deal.  It’s at least 2 or 3 decades past time the US got   
> serious about
> transportation fuels, how about a substantial national R&D  program to  
> solve
> this problem?.  The first oil shock (1971?) should have  been a wake  
> up call.
>
> I recall people saying that ethanol made no sense, that it was just  
> more
> pork for the farm lobby.  The case of Brazil is a counter example,  
> they did  it
> and it worked for them - it’s hard to ignore a successful   
> instantiation.  I
> have no idea what alcol costs are, it may be a lot, but  it appears to  
> me that
> the costs of US regular is closing fast.  If you’ve  filled up your  
> SUV, van,
> or truck recently you know what I mean.
>
> Dave
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