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    mangolfer
    Jun 29 08:50 AM
    Ethanol Is Dead: How You Can Still Profit From It [view article]
    Bottom line is the money stays here vs. the middle east! Reply
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    Subsidy Eye
    Jun 29 08:37 AM
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    Ethanol Is Dead: How You Can Still Profit From It [view article]
    Avcacio should check his facts. He claims that the use of corn for ethanol has contributed only 3 percentage points to the rise in the price of corn. That is not credible, given that 25% of the corn crop this year is expected to be used for the production of ethanol -- perhaps higher if the Renewable Fuels Standard of 9 billion gallons is not relaxed and the corn crop comes in much lower than normal because of torrential rains and flooding in the corn belt.

    Even the industry dares not make such an outrageous and clearly unrealistic claim. Indeed, less than two years ago it was taking full credit for driving up the price of corn by 50% -- above the trigger price for price-linked crop subsidies -- and thus saving the federal government several billion dollars a year in commodity payments. (Of course, the industry generally failed to mention in the same breath that, in its place, the federal government had to spend several billion dollars on ethanol subsidies in the form of tax credits to blenders.)

    What the 3% figure refers to is the contribution that the rise in the price of corn has had on the consumer price index (CPI) for food. That may not sound like a large number, but when you consider that consumer expenditure on food in the United States is now on the order of $1.1 trillion a year, 3% is more than $30 billion per year -- far larger than the "savings" achieved by no longer having to pay out counter-cyclical or marketing loan payments to corn farmers.     Reply
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    john s.
    gordon
    Jun 29 08:37 AM
    Ethanol Is Dead: How You Can Still Profit From It [view article]
    nuclear - pls remember that the electric company in france is the government, they can do anything they want & they do not have a professional intervenor class like we have had here in the u.s
    > jack     Reply
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    Vegasjoe
    Jun 29 08:31 AM
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    Ethanol Is Dead: How You Can Still Profit From It [view article]
    Ethanol is nothing more than a clean air oxygenate in gasoline, replacing MTBE. The current production of corn in the US can support this mandate of 90/10 gas/ethanol. Shipping ethanol other than rail/truck has presented short term logistics issues. KMP is currently testing piping it. E-85 won't fly long term until MON or DD produce the gentically altered seed for corn that puts energy output when used to make ethanol on par with gasoline. The 51 cent blenders credit, now 45 cents after the Farm bill, has gone mostly to big oil, not ethanol producers. I agree that import tariffs on sugar based ethanol are crazy and anti-free market. But, not allowing drilling on the OCS on both shores, east and west, of our country, is also anti-competitive and dumb policy by Congress. Not building more clean air nuclear plants is dumb, too. Look at France and their nuclear power record: impeccable!
    So, short ethanol stocks all the way to zero? How stupid! 18-22 states politically, will not allow media hype rants to overturn the momentum. Corn based ethanol plants can be converted to sugar. Where do we get the sugar cane? Brazil?
    If oil goes to $200 soon, ethanol, with all its detractors, will be more efficient to run E-85 because oil will be pricing itself at $6.00-7.00/gallon and ethanol at $4.00, even at $8.00 corn, is a better buy!
    Ethanol never was a "be-all end-all" game changer. But I like the notion of 25% of our energy consumption being paid to farmers and others in the US rather than to the Middle East and other rogue nations like Chavez, et al....60% of our trade deficit is now oil! Congress needs to wake up and smell the coffee!     Reply
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    User 52095
    Jun 29 08:31 AM
    Ethanol Is Dead: How You Can Still Profit From It [view article]
    Not all biofuels use grains. This is from Yahoofinance: "Nova Biosource Fuels, Inc., an energy company, engages in refining and marketing renewable diesel fuel products and related co-products. The company has developed a technology for the production of biodiesel fuel from animal and vegetable fats, oils, and greases. Biodiesel is a clean burning, biodegradable, and renewable fuel made from a range of feedstocks. It also designs and constructs facilities for the production of biodiesel fuels. As of October 31, 2007, the company owned three continuous flow biodiesel refineries. Nova Biosource Fuels was founded in 2005 and is based in Houston, Texas."
    They havesaid that they willbe putting out between 180 million and 220 million gallons of fuel within the next year and according to Yahoohave a forward P/E of 3.3     Reply
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    Gildford
    Jun 29 08:31 AM
    Ethanol Is Dead: How You Can Still Profit From It [view article]
    Avcacio - Ethanol is not an issue. Brazilian ethanol made from sugar cane is a much better product and cheaper. Corn ethanol is the biggest ruse to feed special interests in the Ag field than I have ever seen. Corn ethanol - NO! Sugar cane ethanol - YES! Reply
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    avcacio
    Jun 29 08:08 AM
    Ethanol Is Dead: How You Can Still Profit From It [view article]
    Good Luck on your bet against ethanol...

    BUT remember the "Mad Max" movie in a world where oil is a big problem... in that world, ethanol would have a tremendous value. It looks to me that the US is heading for that direction...?? Also many of the negative comments against ethanol are "misleading" about the rise of corn prices caused by ethanol... which is only 3% in reality. There are obvious other factors pushing corn much higher than just the ethanol usage.     Reply
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    RightinSanFr
    ancisco
    Jun 27 11:16 AM
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    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Re: Opening banks to private equity:
    In business, once you have played all of your cards of maximizing efficiency and optimizing products and marketing, the final thing that one can do to increase returns is to increase risk. It certainly seems as if this is the point where the Fed is treading these days. The moves to date have been creative and, it would seem, effective; however, safeguards are being whittled down one at a time. they are there for reasons that have not gone away.     Reply
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    notsosmart
    Jun 27 09:52 AM
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    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    the prince is thinking,i guess,oil sweet oil. Reply
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    gon4beer
    Jun 27 08:11 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    I think egregious hubris says it all. I wonder what Prince Alwaleed is thinking. Reply
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    Robert Burns
    Jun 27 05:49 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    It is fact that Citigroup had been offered over $50 billion for their real estate owned properties that devaluate day by day, so can someone please tell me why they would hold onto what is obviously a distressed asset like this? That offer, by the way, was made about a year ago.
    "Citi never sleeps" That's right, it isn't sleep it's a coma.     Reply
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    Stockguy456
    Jun 26 09:05 AM
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    FiveTop Green Week Stocks [view article]
    Also look at fcel, bldp, cpst & eslr Reply
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    tylakewalker
    Jun 12 11:40 AM
    Ethanol Producers in Trouble as Corn Sets New Record [view article]
    At some point people outside of Brazil will realize the benefits of sugarcane based ethanol. It might not happen in the United States because our federal government is effectively run by large US corporations, but I do believe Brazilian ethanol companies will be able to export large quantities of sugarcane based ethanol in the not to distant future. Maybe China, India or other markets. I am long on Cosan (CZZ) and willing to wait. All of the mis-information about sugar cane based ethanol will go away and the truth will prevail in the long run. Sugarcane ethanol is one fuel that can be used to supplement gasoline. Reply
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    33Nick
    Jun 10 11:47 AM
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    Ethanol Producers in Trouble as Corn Sets New Record [view article]
    Boy, sugar cane never looked so good on the international market. What a ding bat exercise in futility making ethanol out of corn! Yes, definitely time to leave that speculative market. Reply
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    MNSL
    Jun 07 08:41 PM
    Ethanol Producers in Trouble as Corn Sets New Record [view article]
    Alternative energy such as Ethanol has beocme speculative now. It is time to leave the grain market now. Reply

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