Tom Caracciolo

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    • World Bank Biofuels Report Finally Released [view article]
      Who cares about affect on food prices now that cellulosic ethanol is becoming available and can easily displace over 50% of the gasoline now being consumed? Jul 31 02:15 PM
    • Are We at the Bottom of the Ethanol Barrel? [view article]
      Article is much to do about nothing because corn is only a short term source of supply for ethanol. Cellulose ethanol uses only waste materials that we throw away. The first plant will be constructed nest to a land fill this year in Lancaster, California using only waste materials and as a residual produces its own energy source used to make the ethanol. Check things out with BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. May 21 01:45 PM
    • Who's Really to Blame for Rising Oil? [view article]
      What is wrong with our FTC? They can impose price controls. Why are they sitting on their hands? May 11 11:34 AM
    • BlueFire Ethanol: A Solution to the Food vs. Fuel Problem [view article]
      I think it would be very helpful for everyone who has not already done it to visit two very key web sites that are very informative and tell it like it is: ethanol.org and e85fuel.com. Both of these will bring everyone up to date on what has already been accomlished, what is currently being done, and what is in store for the future as far as the U.S. is concerned.

      In addition, anyone that would like to learn what all the other countries in the world have already done and are currently doing to stop using fossil fuels made from oil and to switch to environmentally friendly renewable fuels can visit ipdgroup.com and subscribe to their news service for energy industry professionals called ENERGY INDUSTRY TODAY. It costs very little and you will receive daily current world wide news that will give you the facts relating to the current global transition to renewable fuels. Some countries have made more progress than our United States (thanks to Exxon Mobile and other Big U.S. Oil Barrons that have been all too much controlling of our representatives in Washington D.C. for many years).       May 05 02:55 PM
    • Ethanol: Corn Hits New High, Verenium Wins Grant [view article]
      BlueFire Ethanol Fuel (BFRE) will start construction of their cellulosic ethanol plant this coming April next to a land fill in California that will provide the material from which the ethanol will be produced. The facility will be like the cellulosic plant they have in operation in Izumi, Japan producing ethanol from cellulose since 2002. A by-product of their process is butanol that will provide 70% of the energy needed to produce the ethanol. This, plus making ethanol from material we throw away, is a win-win situation for every land fill in the U.S. The process is proven commercially viable. Feb 29 09:47 PM
    • BlueFire Ethanol Fuels: Converting Garbage Into Profits [view article]
      Just two days ago I asked two recently retired chemical engineers, “why are we in the U.S. not proceeding full bore with the production of cellulosic ethanol and doing whatever is necessary to distribute this clean burning fuel to every gas station in the U.S.? The source of cellulosic material in unlimited. We have the capability of installing one ethanol tank in every gas station served by a blending pump from which a customer can choose from E10, E20, E30, E40 or E85 to fill his or her tank. The price per gallon decreases proportionately with each higher blend of ethanol with the traditional regular gasoline. (E10=10% ethanol, E20 = 20% ethanol, E30 = 30% ethanol, and so on.) If all of our gas driven vehicles suddenly used E30 there would be an immediate drop of 30% use of imported crude oil destined for our transportation needs. Further, when enough ethanol is produced, we can further displace crude oil by using E85 in all of our Flex Fuel vehicles” thereby even more seriously reducing our need for imported oil.”

      The response from these two chemical engineers was immediate. They said that our federal government is purposely delaying the widespread use of ethanol because special interests through the use of lobbyists are seriously hindering the use of alternative fuel. For example, the exorbitant import tax currently placed on importing ethanol from Brazil. Two special interests that have control of our Congress, Senate and Executive Branch in Washington DC in this instance are: 1. our big oil companies because every gallon of ethanol reduces their profit on every gallon of gasoline that is displaced; and, 2. our U.S. farmers that grow and sell corn want to continue the excess profits they are receiving for every bushel of corn. They know that ethanol made from unlimited sources of cellulose will eventually completely end the use of ethanol made from corn.
      Feb 25 06:44 PM
    • Cellulosic Ethanol: The Next Biofuel Boom? [view article]
      BlueFire Ethanol Ethanol Fuels, Inc. (BFRE) is on a roll now. They just completed a crucial step in the construction of its first cellulosic ethanol plant in the U.S. by completing vendor testing of the key pieces of equipment to convert a variety of biomass materials, including municipal wastes in land fills, into the simple sugars used in BlueFire Ethanol's commercially viable production process. They have the funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for its planned ethanol production facility using cellulosic wastes diverted from land fills in Southern California. The facility will produce approximately 17 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year from green waste, wood waste and other cellulosic urban wastes. How wonderful it will be to have a BlueFire Ethanol production facility near every urban waste land fill in the U.S. What a WIN - WIN situation! Feb 05 05:38 PM
    • Cramer: "Ethanol Is a Fuel That Doesn't Work" [view article]
      What does it take for people to understand that ethanol from corn is only temporary. Ethanol from cellulose is already on its way in the U.S. Two cellulosic plants are starting construcion now next to landfills in the U.S. that will provide the cellulosic material needed to make the ethanol. BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. has already proven the commercially viable process to make ethanol out of our garbage. They have a plant in Izumi, Japan that has been doing it since the year 2002. They have the exclusive license for the process for the entire U.S. Their plan is to put a cellulosic ethanol plant next to every land in the U.S. It is a win - win situation. Feb 04 04:40 PM
    • Ethanol Going From Panacea to Pariah - WSJ [view article]
      Not true....people have not waked up yet! If they were awake they would know that ethanol produced from food sources such as corn is only temporary. Ethanol produced from cellulos will be the primary replacement for the majority of fossil fuels or the next 20 or 30 years until hydrogen and electric vehicles are produced and available in quantities to completely replace it. Construction of cellulosic ethanol plants in the U.S. will be ongoing in 2008. Japan already has one and China is contructing one now. All from cellulos. Jan 08 04:43 PM
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