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Non-Tech : $2 or higher gas - Can ethanol make a comeback? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (2637)	3/1/2008 8:52:23 PM
From: robert b furman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2801

Hi Rich and ISH, That one is easy, We spend millions cutting the grass along our interstate system. If we took that expense,fertilized the millions of public acreson and inbetween our road systemsand harvested the switch grass we'd go from an expense to a government cash crop. Think about how dynamic that would be. John Deere no doubt has a grass cutter/ baler that will do thousands of interstate miles of grass. If it just broke even - it would save millions!! This is reason enough to let the low fruit of corn ethanol evolve into cellulosic ethanol. As for a shortage of E85 vehicles that will not be the bottle neck. E85 is 100 gallons of alcohol and 17 gallons of gas - just toxic enough so people don't drink it. GM has over 2.5 million E 85 compatible vehicles already on the road - most without local E85 availability. Next year alone 5-6 models will be E85 compatible. The big bottleneck is transporting E 85 to southern states vs it dominance in the midwest. Switchgrass grown in the south where it grows 9 out of 12 months makes a lot of sense. This will evolve to displace a lot of crude demand - it is a fledgling industry and it will evolve to be a significant part of the solution. JMHO Bob