<x-charset ISO-8859-1>Matthew, You're getting tattooed on your methanol costs. Yah. Sure. It's California. "The rules are different there." (Ooops. Sorry. That's Florida.)
I just called Bazell Oil in central Ohio and received a price of $1.75 per gallon, FOB the distributorship. Outright purchase price of a used drum is $10.00 and $17.00 for a new drum. A 500 gallon bulk purchase brings the cost down to $1.45 delivered. MeOH runs at a higher price during winter, so those numbers are essentially "conservative." You need to do some back tracking and locate a bulk distribution facility within a reasonable radius of your locale, rather than speaking with the end distributor that gave you such a jacked up price. If you have to, start at a regional production facility and track down bulk distributors, rather than trying to claw your way up the "food chain." Todd Swearingen ----- Original Message ----- From: "matshel3000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 10:35 AM Subject: [biofuel] Methanol Price correction > My quote for the Methanol price yesterday was wrong. A 55 Gallon drum > of the stuff is in fact about $225 for one drum plus $25 deposit on > the drum plus shiping and tax. So it ends up being about $300 per drum > or $5.50 per gallon. If the mix requiers 20% methanol that makes the > finished Bio Diesel product at about $1.30 per gallon, including power > for distilation etc. > And so do any of you intreped people out there have a cheaper source > for Methanol??? > And is more or less combusterble than Gas/Petrol for storage etc > > Any help or comments would be great. > > Thanks > > Matthew > > (trying in LA to preach the Bio Diesel message, harder than you think > in this car town) > > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuels list archives: > http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ > > Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ </x-charset>
