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Posted by cdmn on March 16, 2005 at 17:11:41 from (66.228.230.186):
In Reply to: Re: ethanol use... posted by paul on March 14, 2005 at 16:56:14:
If you can get more miles per dollar with ethanol than you can with diesel, then it's cheaper. However, you have to consider the subsidies involved when you compare costs, that includes to-the-farmer subsidies as well as to the distillery subsidy. Sure there's a military cost involved in importing fuel, but it's spread out over everything. If it was paid for by an excise tax on fuel, then there'd be some griping! It could be that growing firewood is more energy efficient than growing and processing corn. Once upon a time we were self-sufficient energy producers, it was called "woodlot", "pasture" and "horse hay". I will feel more convinced when the distilleries start to use their own fuel to fire their boilers and when the farmers take gasohol instead of cash for their corn and when the employees at the distillery all use gasohol vehicles. In the end, the price of anything reflects the energy content. The only way to slow energy consumption is to slow down the earning and spending power of the society. That means earlier retirements, more time in college, more stay-at-home spouses, more manual labor, more unemployment, and a reduction in population levels. etc. If people got cheaper fuel, they'd use the money they save to buy something else, or have another baby or something. Anyway, that's some of my arguments.
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