No he isn't a communist but you are delusional and can't do basic math or think rationally. I'd like Romney to win because it would be the complete end of republicans as they are now.
But we can't afford a world depression so smart people will vote Obama back in. What would your investment do in a depression Romney would bring on if he actually does what he says?
In the US it can be traced to repubs blocking any kind of recovery and working to make sure it doesn't happen to win the election.
Their refusal to timely increase the debt ceiling last yr cut 1% off GDP and their vactions this yr have stopped the economy in it's tracks, costing about 2% GDP cut I'd bet.
Almost all non biased economists say the repub polies if not changed will lead to more GDP cuts.
How is this good for business?
The last depression started just like this and if repubs/ Romney wins you can kiss your investments goodby.
Gasoline Purchases Plummeting: Another Recession Indicator? [View article]
To bbro post one should certainly add fuel price increases caused 5 of the last 6 recessions, thus dropping fuel consumption.
We need to get off oil as it's the greatest threat to the US economic and national security. Even, especially, the CIA, Military says this as do any economists not biased.
And it's been the cause of most wars recently and more in the future unless we switch to NG, EV's, Plug in hybrids as Obama has worked to do while increasing oil, NG production here.
Yet Romney is trying to keep us on oil, go to war for more on a fuel that will only rise with a bullet causing more recessions if not a worldwide depression his other policies will cause too. If you like this vote for Romney. If not vote for Obama.
Personally I had a custom EV built yrs ago and drive it at 25% of a similar gas/diesel as I didn't want to keep paying for both sides of the oil wars driving us into bankruptcy.
What After Peak Oil: Oil, Lithium Batteries, Fuel Cells, Or All Of Them? [View article]
Peak oil is about normal crude oil production which in fact has peaked. It's non conventional , read expensive oil, biofuels that have increased.
Great article except for Fuelcells or as those who know call them foolcells. They are very expensive with short lives and just not eff, no more than a gas engine if the full fuel cycle, etc is taken into account.
I drive my EV's at 25% of the total runing cost of similar ICE/gas ones and that savings is only going up. Sadly the production EV's are overweight, overpriced and overteched instead of staying light and simple at 30% of the cost. But these steal gas car sales and their aftermarket part supply gas cars need so big auto isn't going to make them.
These style EV's and many are starting up by small companies can get 200-600mpg equivalent and take care of 90% of US car trips. And for unlimited range just a 5kw fueled generator gives 100mpg+ unlimited range. Toyota has a similar showcar X-1 showing the way they won't build unless forced.
FF energy is very limited because of one thing, 4 billion new customers moving into the first world economy will such dry up any amount that could possibly be found. Other than US, Russia and Aussies coal will be gone in 30 yrs. Since 100 yrs of US supply was based on 2008 usage rates and it's already increased 50%+ since and growing fast, it too won't last. Do the math!!
Tech in oil is already increasing the yields but that too will soon surcome to it costs too much to find so little/EROI/ROI that it's no longer worth drilling for.
Luckily my EV's can be charged for 25 yrs with $1k for 1kw of PV solar panels retail, sunelec.com. How many weeks does it cost you to spend $1k on gasoline, 20? How much will I save? How much will you lose? Basic econo 101.
Wind is now about $1.5k/kw and give power for 50+ yrs. 2kw would support an eff home and EV's as would 4-5kw of PV. I can go on for other more simple than a moped tech that can be cost effectively done.
Now do the numbers and you'll see why as Juan said in 5 yrs FF's will hit a wall as too expensive at about $10/gal and a lot of other fuels start looking much better.
While one can make good money as the price of oil, etc is going up, don't think it'll keep doing it. And one would be smart to listen to Juan.
Peak Oil Myth: Debunking The Peak Oil Theory [View article]
For one the sun puts out 1,000's of times the worlds energy needs, just catch it with cheap PV now under $1k/kw retail if well shopped, far less than new coal, nuke, NG on home, buildings making their own.
This produces around 1825kwhrs/yr average. While present saving are fair with around a 5 yr payback, the price of electricity is only going up, cutting the payback and increasing saving/profit as fuel prices rise. So one ends up with about a 400-600% returns over 25 yrs.
One should mention houses with RE/ are eff, are the first to sell for the best price in this market records show. Kinda like a Pruis, you pay a little more but it's returned in resale price while enjoying saving on fuel costs.
Next wind generators are simple machines more simple than a moped and a solar CSP supplies both heat and electricity and little different than a home central A/C, just with a solar collector and run in reverse. No reason why either be above $2k/kw. Plus it can run on wood pellets, yard wastes or any other fuel.
But you say you can't run a car on that but you can as I do. I have 2 custom, because no one produces them, built that get 10 miles/kwhr EV 2 seat sportwagon and 30miles/kwhr Harley Servicecar size EV trike. Both have trailers for hauling construction supplies and unlimited range generators if one needs to go beyound battery range.
I can go one for each energy need as the tech is already here, just so much subsidies to big oil, coal, utilities that are in our taxes instead of in the price of them. Including the protection international oil companies and dictators, balance of payments costs, pollution damage, clean up costs the federal goverment about $800B/yr or about 25% of your taxes!!! Oil, coal companies want to thank you for being such generous corporate welfare supporters.
The tech is already here. My EV drive is forklift tech is low cost, extremely reliable along with medium tech composites makes light but stronger than steel EV's that becauise they need much smaller battery packs for a given range. In my case 40% of a Leaf's or Volt EV's pack gives me 100-300 mile range respectively.
Suadi Arabia kept oil prices low for yrs because they saw this threat but they can't anymore. Those companies who don't switch to EV's or NG transport in the next few yrs will get priced out of the market.
Peak Oil Myth: Debunking The Peak Oil Theory [View article]
Richard, Wind is good but few cost effective units made. Only regular 2-5 bladed WG's are eff enough and most of them are badly made. One's call axial-flux windgenerator from small American shops are about the only cost effective ones now.
Ones like the Helical are just spinning toys and scams.
On EV's I get 10-30 miles/kwhr or 250 and 600mpg for my 2 seat EV sportwagon and Harley size EV trike because they were custom made in composites so very lightweight yet still stronger than steel. Because of this lowers drag, one needs far less battery pack/mile range. On 10kw, $1 worth here, I get 100 or 300 miles respectively.
This is the largest threat to big oil investments along with increased NG especially for semi's, trucks, buses that in 10 yrs will make us oil independent though still have to pay world oil prices which will be too high.
Cost of oil is the largest threat to our economy and security. And just why do we protect international oil companies and dictators for free? We could get off oil for far less than the $400B/yr this costs us in military. And 20% of your taxes goes to support big oil welfare!!
Peak Oil Myth: Debunking The Peak Oil Theory [View article]
I agree oil, oil services are great investments but other points are weak.
First Peak Oil was about normal crude oil and it has in fact peaked. Just because so many other poor resources of various HC's are now coming out just shows that Peak crude oil happened just as the drilling in ultra deep water as few other places are left.
Shales, sands, etc are rather poor and expensive forms of HC's of very low quality and wasting so much and cleaner NG to extract them is just pure waste. Not a great EROI while adding a lot of land destruction and pollution.
And it really doesn't matter if 2, even 3x's as much is found because the demand of 4 billion new rising wealth customers will just suck it up.
For investing it's a great thing for about 7 yrs as by then much of the world won't be able to afford oil at $10-15gal and so many techs to replace it, it will then level out, busting anyone still in oil expecting it to go higher.
Facts are for 90% of US and world car trips can be done easily with lightweight EV's even on lead batteries, 80 mph/range, especially if done in medium tech composites. These simple machines using present industrial/forklift and composite tech can be profitably sold for $11k in mass production.
Now couple this to new Solar PV, just $1k, 1kw of PV panels can give you 70 miles per day in many areas for 25 yrs. How many weeks would it take you to pay for that in your gas savings even now at $3.50/gal. Then 24.5 yrs of almost free fuel.
Other RE are also more simple than a moped so once in real mass production like PV now is, their price will drop, again cutting fossil fuel needs, costs.
The real energy future will be homes, buildings making their own and even making a profit selling the excess.
I do this now and it won't take long for others to figure out well shopped renewable energy, eff will stall fossil fuels price growth within 10 yrs.
But for those who use oil, staying on oil is a fool's game and you'll pay through the nose. Truck firms that don't switch to NG in 3-5 yrs will fail as will our economy as oil price increases have caused 5 of the last 6 recessions. We can no longer afford to be dependent on oil, just basic econo 101.
Ethanol, Food, Oil, And The Fed: Inflation Ahead [View article]
Because of the drop in the $, drought and overseas demand. Econo101
We use to export Alaska oil. I'm glad to hear we now use it here.
10% of US gasoline is ethanol and since it displaces imports, 60%, completely, it cuts imports by 20%.
UN is rarely right.
Again we have far more food than the US could ever eat and plenty of acreage to expand. The big corn users are animal feed and chemical production yet you don't accuse them. Why?
Just because NG is a good, not great fuel, but cheap doesn't mean you have to demonize all the others. Ethanol, like NG has it's place and far less subsidized than oil, creates jobs.
Fact is you have a hard time getting either vehicles or filling stations for NG thanks to big oil, not putting in NG, just like they didn't put in E-85 pumps. But you can get E10 anywhere.
So if you want to blame something, blame the real factors, animal feed, chemical, exports increasing and $ lowering that are using up corn instead of humping it all on ethanol just like big oil wants you to, to kill it's competition. Great job!!!
Ethanol, Food, Oil, And The Fed: Inflation Ahead [View article]
Then why did corn prices drop 30% even though record ethanol production the next yr?
Speculators were proven to be the cause as there was always plenty of food, just many speculators bought, hoarded and held it instead of it going into the market, causing the shortage. Then later they found out there was plenty of food and prices dropped. Only now with the drought, not ethanol production, has corn went back up. I'd bet in 9 months corn is much lower.
And it's animal feed especially cattle that consume the most grain with a 20% food return, wasting 80%.
Don't you understand that the US acreage and yield has expanded to cover the ethanol production. You don't have to believe me, look it up.
As for cutting oil imports just do the math or look it up.
Ethanol, Food, Oil, And The Fed: Inflation Ahead [View article]
Then why are feed lots and China buying up huge amounts? It also is the source of corn oil. They are thinking about using it in human food because it's protein is far better than raw corn.
Remember civilization is based on beer. The grain was hard so they sprouted, dried it, pounded it into flour for storage. Then before needed it was mixed with water to ferment. Sprouting it doubled the food value then fermenting it doubled it again meant 4 people could live off the same amount of grain. That is what DDG's are, dried beer/mash with the same food value.
Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan And Economic Uncertainty [View article]
If Romney get elected all the world's economist, money people know their policies will bankrupt us and will take their money out of $ so fast and throw the world into a depression.
I love how Obama cuts insurance corporate welfare by $700B and the repubs go bananas which is interesting as Ryan's budget they voted for has it in theirs too!!
Facts are the only way is gov healthcare without having to pay all the parasites/corporations their cut. We could give everyone low cost HC for much less than we pay now. Just prescriptions would drop 75% over present costs. At least this style for those covered by the gov. You are going to pay for it in your taxes. Do you want to pay more for privatized care or far less for public care?
Facts are business is rarely more eff than gov. Here in Fla JEB! Bush as gov privatized about everything he could and in 4 yrs had to take 95% back as they cost more to much more with worse service and pay, benefits to the workers. I was for privatization before that as a fiscal conservative but it proved me very wrong and gave me a new apprecieation of gov workers.
That's why Neo-cons are so scared of Gov as they now know it can in many cases cost much less than corporate does.
Ethanol, Food, Oil, And The Fed: Inflation Ahead [View article]
Several problems with this post.
First ethanol doesn't effect the price of food because after it's made the mash is a higher quality food for humans or cattle, etc than the raw corn was. Another byproduct is the corn oil. So in fact not much food value is lost and some, protein, is gained. Nor did I see mentioned that this kind of corn is not used as human food but as animal feed and chemical feedstock.
If you really want to blame high grain/food costs blame cattle as they eat 10lbs? of grain to make one pund of beef? If they were grass fed as they should be, they get ill from corn, then there would be no shortage of grain/food.
Next is the large amount of jobs made by ethanol causing millions of new/old acres to be put into production, enough plus yield increases/acre to completely offset ethanol production.
Now add the 20% reduction in oil imports and the money staying here making new jobs instead of going to oil dictators and terrorists.
Next on the NG rant, Obama from the start made subsidies for NG vehicles, car, truck conversions and NG filling stations, etc the same way he did EV's and plug in hybrids. You've been listening to Fox, big oil too much. Try some real facts, not biased ones.
Plus Obama has increased NG, oil production far beyond any previous President for 50 yrs. So kind of hard to accuse him of not supporting NG or oil production in the US.
Personally I agree NG especially for trucks is the future. In 5 yrs anyone with a truck fleet that isn't running on NG or electricity or both, won't be competitive. Right now at $3/mmbtu equals about $.45/gal oil equivalent so even if it quadupled it'll still be cheaper than oil fuels.
Plus one can fairly easily make methane/NG or use futures, buy NG wells, etc to hedge future cost rises.
So much of this article is built on faulty data.
BTW I have no bias as I drive my EV's at a fraction of fueled cars costs, 25% of a similar gas versions.
Can Coal Exports Compensate For Domestic Coal's Plunge? [View article]
Lostalloncoall, You don'y know what you are talking about . Obama has from the begining along with EV's subsidizes NG vehicles, conversions and NG fueling stations, pumps at.
Fact are under Obama we have increased all oil, NG drilling, production far above Bush, Bush, Reagan did. No?
As far as coal all we ask is coal pay it's own way and not kill, hospitalize people, etc. Is that too much to ask? Isn't coal making all the profit and sticking taxpayer with the expenses cororate welfare?
Between coal and oil corporate welfare/socialism comes to about $1T/yr from pollution, oil wars, Persian Gulf military protecting international oil companies and dictators for FREE among other socilized costs.
And interestingly that about our budget deficit and draining our economy of the money to grow.
Obama would like to put these costs in them as they should be but repubs keep blocking to keep the corporate welfare going.
And before you think it doesn't matter to you remember 24% of your taxes goes to subsidize these companies coming right out of your pocket at tax time.
Can First Solar Maintain Its Momentum? [View article]
Gumby it's unlikely FS would ship Asian panels here when the cost of shipping exceeds the minisule labor savings. Remember FS panels are 50-100% larger than others/kw so local factories have a big advantage especially with FS panels.
Can First Solar Maintain Its Momentum? [View article]
As I told many 2 yrs ago only the PV companies that intergrate vertically will survive because there is little money in just panels anymore. The real cash is in the complete package or better, just selling the power.
Remember solar happens in peak load times so it can charge 2-10x's as much for such peak power. Now add tax credits, carbon credits and one has a great cash machine for 15-20 yrs that is 50% paid for. So it's not building RE equipment that is that profitable but selling the electricity can be very profitable.
Same really with Lithium batteries. So many companies and so few orders means those that don't make a market for them won't survive waiting for others to buy their batteries which isn't going to happen for 90% of them.
Are We Diving Into A World Slump? [View article]
No he isn't a communist but you are delusional and can't do basic math or think rationally. I'd like Romney to win because it would be the complete end of republicans as they are now.
But we can't afford a world depression so smart people will vote Obama back in. What would your investment do in a depression Romney would bring on if he actually does what he says?
Are We Diving Into A World Slump? [View article]
In the US it can be traced to repubs blocking any kind of recovery and working to make sure it doesn't happen to win the election.
Their refusal to timely increase the debt ceiling last yr cut 1% off GDP and their vactions this yr have stopped the economy in it's tracks, costing about 2% GDP cut I'd bet.
Almost all non biased economists say the repub polies if not changed will lead to more GDP cuts.
How is this good for business?
The last depression started just like this and if repubs/ Romney wins you can kiss your investments goodby.
Gasoline Purchases Plummeting: Another Recession Indicator? [View article]
To bbro post one should certainly add fuel price increases caused 5 of the last 6 recessions, thus dropping fuel consumption.
We need to get off oil as it's the greatest threat to the US economic and national security. Even, especially, the CIA, Military says this as do any economists not biased.
And it's been the cause of most wars recently and more in the future unless we switch to NG, EV's, Plug in hybrids as Obama has worked to do while increasing oil, NG production here.
Yet Romney is trying to keep us on oil, go to war for more on a fuel that will only rise with a bullet causing more recessions if not a worldwide depression his other policies will cause too. If you like this vote for Romney. If not vote for Obama.
Personally I had a custom EV built yrs ago and drive it at 25% of a similar gas/diesel as I didn't want to keep paying for both sides of the oil wars driving us into bankruptcy.
What After Peak Oil: Oil, Lithium Batteries, Fuel Cells, Or All Of Them? [View article]
Peak oil is about normal crude oil production which in fact has peaked. It's non conventional , read expensive oil, biofuels that have increased.
Great article except for Fuelcells or as those who know call them foolcells. They are very expensive with short lives and just not eff, no more than a gas engine if the full fuel cycle, etc is taken into account.
I drive my EV's at 25% of the total runing cost of similar ICE/gas ones and that savings is only going up. Sadly the production EV's are overweight, overpriced and overteched instead of staying light and simple at 30% of the cost. But these steal gas car sales and their aftermarket part supply gas cars need so big auto isn't going to make them.
These style EV's and many are starting up by small companies can get 200-600mpg equivalent and take care of 90% of US car trips. And for unlimited range just a 5kw fueled generator gives 100mpg+ unlimited range. Toyota has a similar showcar X-1 showing the way they won't build unless forced.
FF energy is very limited because of one thing, 4 billion new customers moving into the first world economy will such dry up any amount that could possibly be found. Other than US, Russia and Aussies coal will be gone in 30 yrs. Since 100 yrs of US supply was based on 2008 usage rates and it's already increased 50%+ since and growing fast, it too won't last. Do the math!!
Tech in oil is already increasing the yields but that too will soon surcome to it costs too much to find so little/EROI/ROI that it's no longer worth drilling for.
Luckily my EV's can be charged for 25 yrs with $1k for 1kw of PV solar panels retail, sunelec.com. How many weeks does it cost you to spend $1k on gasoline, 20? How much will I save? How much will you lose? Basic econo 101.
Wind is now about $1.5k/kw and give power for 50+ yrs. 2kw would support an eff home and EV's as would 4-5kw of PV. I can go on for other more simple than a moped tech that can be cost effectively done.
Now do the numbers and you'll see why as Juan said in 5 yrs FF's will hit a wall as too expensive at about $10/gal and a lot of other fuels start looking much better.
While one can make good money as the price of oil, etc is going up, don't think it'll keep doing it. And one would be smart to listen to Juan.
Peak Oil Myth: Debunking The Peak Oil Theory [View article]
For one the sun puts out 1,000's of times the worlds energy needs, just catch it with cheap PV now under $1k/kw retail if well shopped, far less than new coal, nuke, NG on home, buildings making their own.
This produces around 1825kwhrs/yr average. While present saving are fair with around a 5 yr payback, the price of electricity is only going up, cutting the payback and increasing saving/profit as fuel prices rise. So one ends up with about a 400-600% returns over 25 yrs.
One should mention houses with RE/ are eff, are the first to sell for the best price in this market records show. Kinda like a Pruis, you pay a little more but it's returned in resale price while enjoying saving on fuel costs.
Next wind generators are simple machines more simple than a moped and a solar CSP supplies both heat and electricity and little different than a home central A/C, just with a solar collector and run in reverse. No reason why either be above $2k/kw. Plus it can run on wood pellets, yard wastes or any other fuel.
But you say you can't run a car on that but you can as I do. I have 2 custom, because no one produces them, built that get 10 miles/kwhr EV 2 seat sportwagon and 30miles/kwhr Harley Servicecar size EV trike. Both have trailers for hauling construction supplies and unlimited range generators if one needs to go beyound battery range.
I can go one for each energy need as the tech is already here, just so much subsidies to big oil, coal, utilities that are in our taxes instead of in the price of them. Including the protection international oil companies and dictators, balance of payments costs, pollution damage, clean up costs the federal goverment about $800B/yr or about 25% of your taxes!!! Oil, coal companies want to thank you for being such generous corporate welfare supporters.
The tech is already here. My EV drive is forklift tech is low cost, extremely reliable along with medium tech composites makes light but stronger than steel EV's that becauise they need much smaller battery packs for a given range. In my case 40% of a Leaf's or Volt EV's pack gives me 100-300 mile range respectively.
Suadi Arabia kept oil prices low for yrs because they saw this threat but they can't anymore. Those companies who don't switch to EV's or NG transport in the next few yrs will get priced out of the market.
Peak Oil Myth: Debunking The Peak Oil Theory [View article]
Richard, Wind is good but few cost effective units made. Only regular 2-5 bladed WG's are eff enough and most of them are badly made. One's call axial-flux windgenerator from small American shops are about the only cost effective ones now.
Ones like the Helical are just spinning toys and scams.
On EV's I get 10-30 miles/kwhr or 250 and 600mpg for my 2 seat EV sportwagon and Harley size EV trike because they were custom made in composites so very lightweight yet still stronger than steel. Because of this lowers drag, one needs far less battery pack/mile range. On 10kw, $1 worth here, I get 100 or 300 miles respectively.
This is the largest threat to big oil investments along with increased NG especially for semi's, trucks, buses that in 10 yrs will make us oil independent though still have to pay world oil prices which will be too high.
Cost of oil is the largest threat to our economy and security. And just why do we protect international oil companies and dictators for free? We could get off oil for far less than the $400B/yr this costs us in military. And 20% of your taxes goes to support big oil welfare!!
Peak Oil Myth: Debunking The Peak Oil Theory [View article]
I agree oil, oil services are great investments but other points are weak.
First Peak Oil was about normal crude oil and it has in fact peaked. Just because so many other poor resources of various HC's are now coming out just shows that Peak crude oil happened just as the drilling in ultra deep water as few other places are left.
Shales, sands, etc are rather poor and expensive forms of HC's of very low quality and wasting so much and cleaner NG to extract them is just pure waste. Not a great EROI while adding a lot of land destruction and pollution.
And it really doesn't matter if 2, even 3x's as much is found because the demand of 4 billion new rising wealth customers will just suck it up.
For investing it's a great thing for about 7 yrs as by then much of the world won't be able to afford oil at $10-15gal and so many techs to replace it, it will then level out, busting anyone still in oil expecting it to go higher.
Facts are for 90% of US and world car trips can be done easily with lightweight EV's even on lead batteries, 80 mph/range, especially if done in medium tech composites. These simple machines using present industrial/forklift and composite tech can be profitably sold for $11k in mass production.
Now couple this to new Solar PV, just $1k, 1kw of PV panels can give you 70 miles per day in many areas for 25 yrs. How many weeks would it take you to pay for that in your gas savings even now at $3.50/gal. Then 24.5 yrs of almost free fuel.
Other RE are also more simple than a moped so once in real mass production like PV now is, their price will drop, again cutting fossil fuel needs, costs.
The real energy future will be homes, buildings making their own and even making a profit selling the excess.
I do this now and it won't take long for others to figure out well shopped renewable energy, eff will stall fossil fuels price growth within 10 yrs.
But for those who use oil, staying on oil is a fool's game and you'll pay through the nose. Truck firms that don't switch to NG in 3-5 yrs will fail as will our economy as oil price increases have caused 5 of the last 6 recessions. We can no longer afford to be dependent on oil, just basic econo 101.
Ethanol, Food, Oil, And The Fed: Inflation Ahead [View article]
Because of the drop in the $, drought and overseas demand. Econo101
We use to export Alaska oil. I'm glad to hear we now use it here.
10% of US gasoline is ethanol and since it displaces imports, 60%, completely, it cuts imports by 20%.
UN is rarely right.
Again we have far more food than the US could ever eat and plenty of acreage to expand. The big corn users are animal feed and chemical production yet you don't accuse them. Why?
Just because NG is a good, not great fuel, but cheap doesn't mean you have to demonize all the others. Ethanol, like NG has it's place and far less subsidized than oil, creates jobs.
Fact is you have a hard time getting either vehicles or filling stations for NG thanks to big oil, not putting in NG, just like they didn't put in E-85 pumps. But you can get E10 anywhere.
So if you want to blame something, blame the real factors, animal feed, chemical, exports increasing and $ lowering that are using up corn instead of humping it all on ethanol just like big oil wants you to, to kill it's competition. Great job!!!
Ethanol, Food, Oil, And The Fed: Inflation Ahead [View article]
Then why did corn prices drop 30% even though record ethanol production the next yr?
Speculators were proven to be the cause as there was always plenty of food, just many speculators bought, hoarded and held it instead of it going into the market, causing the shortage. Then later they found out there was plenty of food and prices dropped. Only now with the drought, not ethanol production, has corn went back up. I'd bet in 9 months corn is much lower.
And it's animal feed especially cattle that consume the most grain with a 20% food return, wasting 80%.
Don't you understand that the US acreage and yield has expanded to cover the ethanol production. You don't have to believe me, look it up.
As for cutting oil imports just do the math or look it up.
BTW we export most if not all of Alaskan oil.
Ethanol, Food, Oil, And The Fed: Inflation Ahead [View article]
Then why are feed lots and China buying up huge amounts? It also is the source of corn oil. They are thinking about using it in human food because it's protein is far better than raw corn.
Remember civilization is based on beer. The grain was hard so they sprouted, dried it, pounded it into flour for storage. Then before needed it was mixed with water to ferment. Sprouting it doubled the food value then fermenting it doubled it again meant 4 people could live off the same amount of grain. That is what DDG's are, dried beer/mash with the same food value.
Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan And Economic Uncertainty [View article]
If Romney get elected all the world's economist, money people know their policies will bankrupt us and will take their money out of $ so fast and throw the world into a depression.
I love how Obama cuts insurance corporate welfare by $700B and the repubs go bananas which is interesting as Ryan's budget they voted for has it in theirs too!!
Facts are the only way is gov healthcare without having to pay all the parasites/corporations their cut. We could give everyone low cost HC for much less than we pay now. Just prescriptions would drop 75% over present costs. At least this style for those covered by the gov. You are going to pay for it in your taxes. Do you want to pay more for privatized care or far less for public care?
Facts are business is rarely more eff than gov. Here in Fla
JEB! Bush as gov privatized about everything he could and in 4 yrs had to take 95% back as they cost more to much more with worse service and pay, benefits to the workers. I was for privatization before that as a fiscal conservative but it proved me very wrong and gave me a new apprecieation of gov workers.
That's why Neo-cons are so scared of Gov as they now know it can in many cases cost much less than corporate does.
Ethanol, Food, Oil, And The Fed: Inflation Ahead [View article]
Several problems with this post.
First ethanol doesn't effect the price of food because after it's made the mash is a higher quality food for humans or cattle, etc than the raw corn was. Another byproduct is the corn oil. So in fact not much food value is lost and some, protein, is gained. Nor did I see mentioned that this kind of corn is not used as human food but as animal feed and chemical feedstock.
If you really want to blame high grain/food costs blame cattle as they eat 10lbs? of grain to make one pund of beef? If they were grass fed as they should be, they get ill from corn, then there would be no shortage of grain/food.
Next is the large amount of jobs made by ethanol causing millions of new/old acres to be put into production, enough plus yield increases/acre to completely offset ethanol production.
Now add the 20% reduction in oil imports and the money staying here making new jobs instead of going to oil dictators and terrorists.
Next on the NG rant, Obama from the start made subsidies for NG vehicles, car, truck conversions and NG filling stations, etc the same way he did EV's and plug in hybrids. You've been listening to Fox, big oil too much. Try some real facts, not biased ones.
Plus Obama has increased NG, oil production far beyond any previous President for 50 yrs. So kind of hard to accuse him of not supporting NG or oil production in the US.
Personally I agree NG especially for trucks is the future. In 5 yrs anyone with a truck fleet that isn't running on NG or electricity or both, won't be competitive. Right now at $3/mmbtu equals about $.45/gal oil equivalent so even if it quadupled it'll still be cheaper than oil fuels.
Plus one can fairly easily make methane/NG or use futures, buy NG wells, etc to hedge future cost rises.
So much of this article is built on faulty data.
BTW I have no bias as I drive my EV's at a fraction of fueled cars costs, 25% of a similar gas versions.
Can Coal Exports Compensate For Domestic Coal's Plunge? [View article]
Fact are under Obama we have increased all oil, NG drilling, production far above Bush, Bush, Reagan did. No?
As far as coal all we ask is coal pay it's own way and not kill, hospitalize people, etc. Is that too much to ask? Isn't coal making all the profit and sticking taxpayer with the expenses cororate welfare?
Between coal and oil corporate welfare/socialism comes to about $1T/yr from pollution, oil wars, Persian Gulf military protecting international oil companies and dictators for FREE among other socilized costs.
And interestingly that about our budget deficit and draining our economy of the money to grow.
Obama would like to put these costs in them as they should be but repubs keep blocking to keep the corporate welfare going.
And before you think it doesn't matter to you remember 24% of your taxes goes to subsidize these companies coming right out of your pocket at tax time.
Can First Solar Maintain Its Momentum? [View article]
Can First Solar Maintain Its Momentum? [View article]
As I told many 2 yrs ago only the PV companies that intergrate vertically will survive because there is little money in just panels anymore. The real cash is in the complete package or better, just selling the power.
Remember solar happens in peak load times so it can charge 2-10x's as much for such peak power. Now add tax credits, carbon credits and one has a great cash machine for 15-20 yrs that is 50% paid for. So it's not building RE equipment that is that profitable but selling the electricity can be very profitable.
Same really with Lithium batteries. So many companies and so few orders means those that don't make a market for them won't survive waiting for others to buy their batteries which isn't going to happen for 90% of them.