Tom Caracciolo

Ethanol Biomass $285M Plant Proposed as Biofuel Production Rises

I e-mailed Mr. Chu who runs our U.S. Dept. of Energy, our Washington State Senator Cantwell, President Obama and Vice President Biden months ago, and explained that BFRE has had all permits in place, design and sources of hardware supply is all complete, the project is "Shovel Ready" and asked, "What in heaven's name is holding up the financing garauntees that was promised BFRE well over a year ago?" I never received an answer from any one of them. I'm smelling the same rotten smell today that I used to experience emanating from Washington DC for the 8 years prior to Obama's swearing into office. The only way you can get anything accomplished in a timely manner in our three branches of government is by giving massive amounts of cash to lobbyists to payoff our elected officials. When I say massive amounts of cash what I'm talking about enough to compete with Exxon Mobile and others like them. We the people do not stand a chance in hell! One thing is for sure....you are not going to get any meaningful answer from the author of this article. Tom Caracciolo


On Aug 30 10:44 AM valuestocksonly wrote:

> As far as BFRE is concerned. I live here in Lancaster, the site location.
> They already obtained the air permit approx. 1 year ago. The author
> of this article is way behind on his info. BFRE has been unable to
> obtain financing, for what reason i do not know.

BlueFire Ethanol: A Solution to the Food vs. Fuel Problem

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).

BlueFire Ethanol Fuels: Converting Garbage Into Profits

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.

Cellulosic Ethanol: The Next Biofuel Boom?

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!

Ethanol Going From Panacea to Pariah - WSJ

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.