Switchgrass makes better Ethanol than corn

[one...two...tree 2,762]

In a report entitled “Big Oil vs. Ethanol: The Consumer Stake in Expanding the Production of Liquid Fuels", CFA charges that:

"major oil companies have now declared war on a key policy that can help alleviate the shortage – the expanded production of alternative transportation fuels, particularly biofuels, like ethanol."

The report goes on to say that the oil companies have systematically used their power to prevent ethanol from becoming successful:

Keeping the refining sector tight is not the only way Big Oil battles against ethanol. The oil companies have substantial market power over the distribution of alternative fuels, as a Wall Street Journal headline pointed out: “Fill Up With Ethanol? One Big Obstacle is Big Oil.”

Yet so far, only a tiny fraction of U.S. service stations let a driver fill up with ethanol. There are a number of reasons, but one big one is resistance from oil companies…

Oil companies lose sales every time a driver chooses E85, and they employ a variety of tactics that keep the fuel out of stations that bear the company name. For instance, franchises sometimes are required to purchase all the fuel they sell from the oil company…

Contract sometimes limit advertising of E85 and restrict the use of credit cards to apply for it. Some require that any E85 pump be on a separate island, not under the main canopy.

The report concludes that supporting increased competition in the automobile fuels market will help discipline a market dominated by a handful of multinational oil companies that are extracting monopoly profits from US gasoline consumers.

http://www.foodandfuelamerica.com/2007/07/...on-ethanol.html

[almaty 19]

You guys are brutal

Seriously though, I wonder what Exxon/Mobil and the other oil companies think about their stock plummeting should ethanol take off?

They'll get into it, if they're smart. How you gonna run a business if you don't embrace new tech and diversify?

i kn ow exxon ...they will buy the land in these areas,,put up their own plants and buy out or down price any small competitor until they control it...

[one...two...tree 2,762]

You guys are brutal

Seriously though, I wonder what Exxon/Mobil and the other oil companies think about their stock plummeting should ethanol take off?

They'll get into it, if they're smart. How you gonna run a business if you don't embrace new tech and diversify?

i kn ow exxon ...they will buy the land in these areas,,put up their own plants and buy out or down price any small competitor until they control it...

Yep...their CEO must be a Monopoly champ.

[almaty 19]

You guys are brutal

Seriously though, I wonder what Exxon/Mobil and the other oil companies think about their stock plummeting should ethanol take off?

They'll get into it, if they're smart. How you gonna run a business if you don't embrace new tech and diversify?

i kn ow exxon ...they will buy the land in these areas,,put up their own plants and buy out or down price any small competitor until they control it...

Yep...their CEO must be a Monopoly champ.

the President shut down the coal mine .,..cause he thought the profits they were making were not equal to oil in the long run..he is a capitalist

[Jamie76 0]

Corn can be used as well. The stalks, the cobs after the kernels have been used for food, feed oil etc.

BP is getting in on the renewable act. They make solar panels, and this year they are supposed to start delivering butanol to gas stations. Butanol can be made from renewable sources but is better than ethanol. It's made basically in the same way but under anaerobic conditions. It has more energy per gallon than ethanol, no changes are needed to be made on a cars engine and it can be delivered down the same pipelines as gasoline unlike ethanol.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Capitalism will sort out this ethanol thing.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Capitalism will sort out this ethanol thing.

Like Communism solved poverty.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Capitalism will sort out this ethanol thing.

Like Communism solved poverty.

You love your gasoline I bet. Same here.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Capitalism will sort out this ethanol thing.

Like Communism solved poverty.

You love your gasoline I bet. Same here.

It's more like a love hate relationship. I love having transportation, but I hate that oil companies have no real competition for fueling that transportation.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Capitalism will sort out this ethanol thing.

Like Communism solved poverty.

You love your gasoline I bet. Same here.

It's more like a love hate relationship. I love having transportation, but I hate that oil companies have no real competition for fueling that transportation.

So adding ethanol to the equation should loosen the grip of big oil.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Capitalism will sort out this ethanol thing.

Like Communism solved poverty.

You love your gasoline I bet. Same here.

It's more like a love hate relationship. I love having transportation, but I hate that oil companies have no real competition for fueling that transportation.

So adding ethanol to the equation should loosen the grip of big oil.

That's what I'm hoping. Unless they get their greedy hands on it first and monopolize it.

[Don_Joy's Prince 0]

goats like grass and shoes and cans ..

and mares eat oats, and does eat oats, and little lambs eat ivy.