polishlogician

Congress Considers Bailing Out Its Ethanol Mistakes

...is corn is safer than importing oil? Well dependence upon anything pry incurs risk. But what is the sustainability of ethanol during the next 3-5 year drought?

I ask this because it's not at all outside the realm of reason and probably will occur (i.e, as it did in the mid-to-late 30's, early-60's, late-80's); in fact, we're pry due, though proponents of ethanol see only good weather, year in and year out, decade after decade as a given, in fact they have to as an underlying assumption of its sheer sustainability.

On Dec 27 01:37 AM M-F wrote:

> Corn ethanol will be a bridge to cellulosic ethanol and perhaps ethanol
> from 'sugarcorn' a promising new plant which has no kernels or cobs.

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> We have simply relied on the free market to give us cheap oil for
> too long and hoped that cartels and political instability would go
> away. Well, with war in the Middle East and the recent $150/bbl price
> in oil, it makes sense for the US to ultimately replace 25% of it's
> gasoline with ethanol. It can be part of the solution.
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> Of course corn ethanol doesn't yield as much energy as oil, but you
> have to see the big picture and take off the geek hat with the propellor
> on top. If the US imports 70% of it's oil and most of those imports
> become unavailable, the US national security is put at a severe risk.
> So oil is the cheapest source of energy right now... this doesn't
> mean we put our head in the sand for another 5 years until the next
> oil embargo, war or price spike. We need US energy independence ASAP...
> and I don't see a better plan on the table with a reasonable chance
> of being implemented. Get real everyone.