Posted on 05/26/2005 5:17:06 AM PDT by OESY
Tom Daschle may be in forced retirement..., but it seems Republicans are only too happy to preserve one of his legacies. As the Senate turns... to its uninspired energy bill, the majority party is busy passing an enormous ethanol mandate that would make even corn farmers blush.
The taxpayers and drivers who get to fund this special interest extravaganza can thank Missouri Senator Jim Talent, [who] pushed an amendment through the Energy and Natural Resources Committee yesterday that would require drivers to use eight billion gallons of ethanol a year by 2012. The proceeds from this forced product march would be funneled into the pockets of Midwest farmers and giant agribusiness concerns....
The terms of this mandate are munificent, because every gallon of ethanol blended into gasoline receives a 51-cent subsidy. An eight-billion-gallon mandate translates into an extra $2.3 billion windfall for the ethanol lobby. The mandate would also raise gas prices, especially outside the Midwest where ethanol is costly to ship. Even a five-billion-gallon mandate is estimated to add some $8.4 billion to fuel costs over each of the next five years, on top of today's already high pump prices.
Ethanol supporters argue that a mandate will make the country more energy "independent." But even eight billion gallons of ethanol is but a drop in the U.S. motor fuel market and will in no way liberate Americans from Saudi crude. What it does threaten to do is put pressure on already scarce fuel-refining capacity, further adding to gasoline bills. Ethanol was also once thought to reduce smog, but the National Academy of Sciences has since said such fuel "oxygenates" have little impact on air quality. Some studies have shown that the process of creating and distributing ethanol uses more fossil fuels and causes more pollution than it prevents....
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
HPFI only works, if i understand correctly, is only able to work on diesels because of the inherent way an engine functions....
wrong
Beautiful eloquent answer, however, w r o n g ...
The ethanol subsidy is called the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit and is found at Internal Revenue Code Section 6426. Federal excise tax on motor fuels is paid at the wholesale ("at the rack") level. The tax credit is allowed at the rack, because that's where the tax is paid.
a x is a hasbeen, and a spurt is a drip under pressure.
I 3rd gen. oil worker, I know from hands on it's all a handjob controled so tightly by sneaky men who know how to fool and control overedjumakated gomint officials & intellectualls & fools.
Then feel free to explain to me how HPFI would work in a gasoline operated engine. I understood that it only worked in compression ignition (diesel) engines, not capacative ignition (gasoline) engines.
The finer the droplets of fuel & the more air in close contact with each molecule the more complete the energy release. More power, less waste.
I grew up near on of the premier automotive research facilities, my Dad & many friends & neighbors worked there.
I'm 50 years old & know pretty much everything that went on there for longer than that, enough to prove to me that things could easily have been much different.
It's not the money, I'm not sure of all the motives.
I am sure that for the same manufacturing cost we could have had 30% more MPG for the past 65 years.
Those sand savages could still be wondering around fighting each other on camels.
We wouldn't even know about them except for magazines at the dentist.
I'm thinking back to the r-12 scam, the few "researchers" creating all the buzz were working through the U. of C. campus via DuPont grants.
Now we're stuck with a more dangerous 134-a which was as older freon formula that was dropped from development when r-12 was invented
"It's always somethin'
-Roseanne Rosanna Danna-
No offense meant, but the "study" is comparable to something from junior high.
I am not nor do I pretend to know lots of things about lots of things, but I'm very able with statistics, numbers, and facts.
Anything into OilGory refuse, from a Butterball Turkey plant in Carthage, Missouri, will no longer go to waste. Each day 200 tons of turkey offal will be carted to the first industrial-scale thermal depolymerization plant, recently completed in an adjacent lot, and be transformed into various useful products, including 600 barrels of light oil.
by Brad Lemley
May 2003Carbon dioxide turned into hydrocarbon fuelNakamichi Yamasaki of the Tokushima Industrial Technology Center in Japan says he has a process that makes propane and butane at relatively low temperatures and pressures. While his work still needs independent verification, if he can make even heavier hydrocarbons, it might be possible to make petrol. It has carbon chains that are between five and 12 atoms long - butane is four atoms long. The work suggests the tantalising prospect that CO2, the main greenhouse gas, could be recycled instead of being pumped into the atmosphere.
16:00 02 August 02Ricardo expects new technologyAt this rate, Ricardo estimates that diesel car sales will reach a market penetration in excess of 40 per cent in 2002 and 50 per cent, potentially, by 2005. In terms of major markets, France and Germany continue to enjoy rapid growth, with Italy experiencing more modest increases. Sales of diesel cars in France, Spain, Austria, Belgium and Luxembourg already exceed those for gasoline cars. The UK, which for six years has experienced a steady decline, witnessed a significant turnaround last year with a sharp rise in diesel sales of 39 per cent. Ricardo, which has pioneered much of the development work in advanced gasoline and diesel engines and monitors market trends on behalf of its many clients worldwide, says that improvements in diesel engine performance, driving characteristics and refinement are helping to drive the rapid growth of diesel engine sales across Europe.
to continue fuelling diesel sales
Anthony Smith
05 April 2002
200 tons of turkey offal into 600 barrels of light oil...
600 x 42 (gal per bbl) x 8 (lbs per gallon) = 201600 lbs = 100.8 tons
(plus other "various useful products")
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