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To: Road Walker who wrote (286267)	5/1/2006 7:17:06 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573782

Great article. The only problem now is an idiot President who's bought and paid for by the oil lobby.

To: Road Walker who wrote (286267)	5/4/2006 5:08:22 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573782

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To: Road Walker who wrote (286267)	11/17/2006 8:47:02 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573782

Corn ethanol, which once required a subsidy, became competitive when oil hit $40 a barrel. I'm not really sure that's true. Well maybe it became competitive but it wouldn't be competitive now at that price. The higher oil price itself raises the price to grow and harvest and transport corn. More importantly the higher demand for ethanol has pushed up the price for ethanol in the US. Corn ethanol still receives subsidies. Perhaps cellulosic ethanol could be competitive without them. If so the only potential problem I see is the problem of having enough spare farmland to grow all the crops to use to produce ethanol. That won't be quites as hard to do at 10 or 15% ethanol (a lot of gasoline already is 10% ethanol), but if in the future we use a lot of E85, it might be hard to produce sufficient quantities. Hard to tell for sure, since the waste products of existing crops can be used. If it wasn't for that factor there would be no way we could produce enough.