What people do not consider is that crude is free. It is just sitting there waiting to be pumped out of the ground. All other known fuel bases cost a lot to produce. Well, geothermal, hydro, wind, and solar are cheap bases too, but they are hard to carry around with you.
-graywolf P. J. Alling wrote: > Subtract the tax and you're getting closer to fuel prices. The problem > is that it takes about 1 1/4 gallons of petroleum fuel to produce 1 > gallon of ethanol from corn or soy beans. It's a bad trade. It's like > losing money on every sale and making up the difference on volume... > > Bob Shell wrote: >> On Apr 28, 2007, at 2:33 PM, graywolf wrote: >> >> >>> The >>> great thing is it costs me $10 a pint instead of $10 an ounce and >>> seems >>> to do a better job. >>> >> That's still $ 80 per gallon. Damned expensive for ethanol!!! And >> they want us to run our cars on this.... >> >> Bob >> >> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
