[Terrapreta] ethanol media blitz

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Lou

I wento their Cornulator Page, where tehy calculate the cobs of corn 
used and teh BBl's of fuelk saved, using one of their vehiclesd, and 
knowing the expected annual mileage. See: 
http://www.gm.com/explore/livegreengoyellow/

For 20,000 miles in a Suburban, I'd save 42 BBL Oil, and would use 29.3 
cobs of corn. That seems like an excessively huge savings claim.  That 
is trhe equivalent to 1 BBl of oul saved for each cob of corn nused to 
make ethanol.

This doesn't seem to hang together. Anyone have an explanation?

Best wishes,

Kevin




lou gold wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> General Motors just launched a media blitz for it's new
> flexfuel guzzling pick-up.
> http://www.gm.com/explore/livegreengoyellow/
>
> Corn ethanol was obviously chosen for the US market.
> The yellow and green colors are an appeal to Brazil
> (the national flag and main futebol colors). And the
> 4-door style is the one seen most commonly in Amazonia
> (and probably other rainforest regions).
>
> This ad is now appearing at eco websites like
> EcoWorld where there are FOUR (4) button
> placements on the page of the terra preta post
> http://www.ecoworld.com/blog/2007/11/27/terra-preta/
>
> and at Mongabay (the leading world rainforest info site)
> http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1127-sekala_interview.html 
> <http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1127-sekala_interview.html>
>
> WE NEED A GRAND STRATEGY TO DEAL WITH THIS
>
> THE FUEL FOLKS HAVE A BIG JUMP ON THE SOIL SAVERS
>
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