[extropy-chat] cheap alcohol

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 08:27:47PM -0700, spike wrote:

> Our innovative neighbors in Brazil are using 
> NAFTA to avoid tariffs and ship cheap cane-based 
> ethanol to the US, upsetting the corn growers 

Bioethanol for fuel is an awful idea. It only looks
good when compared to biodiesel: 

	http://www.mda.state.mn.us/ethanol/balance.html

Biodiesel/oil crop is a stupid idea on its own.
Smarter is to use whole biomass in caloric burn/source
of synfuel and synthetic precursors.

> of America.
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> http://www.crystalsugar.com/media/news.archives/cargill.asp
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> US lawmakers made our sugar prices 3 times the 
> global price, just as the EU made their motor 
> fuel 3 times the global price.   I'd like to 

I don't. I want the fossil fuel to remain expensive, and to become
slowly, steadily, even more expensive. I just want the entire revenue
from fuel taxes to be spent on R&D for alternative fuels and damage
remediation.
 
> see both tariffs phased out!



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