Posted by IaGary on December 12, 2007 at 16:39:22 from (67.55.192.138):
In Reply to: Save the world???? posted by Nebraska Cowman on December 12, 2007 at 16:10:53:
Cowman I have also thought about your last question and here are my figures.
We will put gallons in dollars per acre.
Fert $90
Fuel to plant and harvest and tend to $20.00
Fuel to produce and deleiver the seed $50.00
Fuel to dry $8.00
Herb. $25.00
Fuel to deleiver corn to ethanol plant $6.00
Total of $199.00 per acre for fuel if you figure all cost for seed, fertilizer and herb as fuel costs.
An acre of corn will produce 175 bushels here.
At 2.7 gallons of ethanol to a bushel of corn, that makes 472.5 gallon of ethanol at $3.00 a gallon equals $1417.50 worth of ethanol from an acre.
Nothing is figured for the heat to convert the 175 bushels to ethanol at the plant but I bet it ain't over $50.00 an acre. And to deliever to the gas tank is less than $25.00 an acre for a 500 mile trip by the tanker to your gas station.
Then you also have the byproduct for feed to market also.
Yes there is a positive return on gallons per acre for fuel usage verses return gallons per acre.
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