[Terrapreta] ethanol media blitz

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Naomi

naomi luckett wrote:
> Dear Kevin,
> I also went to the site and I believed the point to be the thousand 
> mark??? ie: 29,231 cobs?????
> Maybe I also missed the mark? surely, you couldnt get a Chevy suburban 
> to run 20,000 miles on less than 30 cobs of corn!!!!!
> If so...then sorry TP list...I am moving to Ethanol!!!!!!!!

Well, the punctuation mark is a dot and not a comma... the dot is much 
more likely to elicit a favourable reaction than is a comma or 1 
thousands separator. Many people not having your background would assume 
that 29 corn cobs saves 42 gallons of oil.

Quite a neat trick.

Kevin
>  
> Naomi
>
> On Nov 30, 2007 8:48 AM, Kevin Chisholm <kchisholm at ca.inter.net 
> <mailto:kchisholm at ca.inter.net>> wrote:
>
>     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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