[Terrapreta] evil ethanol

[Gerald Van Koeverden]

I get weary of reading of "evil ethanol".
Ethanol is merely a symptom, albeit a knee-jerk reaction to rising  
drilled oil and natural gas costs.  The dramatic rise in cost of  
these natural commodities beginning a few years ago, meant that all  
at once it was cheaper to burn corn, wheat, etc. in boilers than buy  
gas and oil.  In fact, at $2/bushel corn, heat could be produced at  
half the cost of natural gas.  As agricultural commodity experts  
predicted at that time, the cost of these commodities would rise to  
at least equal its value as heating fuel.

Its the unaturally high price of natural gas and oil that is  
distorting the world economy.

If you want to calculated the relative cost of heating with different  
materials, just plug the present values into the following exel sheet:

http://pikul.lib.ku.ac.th/www/thes_th_adv.php?term=%CB%AD%E9%D2%BE% 
A7&sort=alphabatic&browse=%E0%C3%D5%C2%A1%B4%D9&opt=exact

Gerald

On 22-Apr-08, at 8:57 AM, Michael Bailes wrote:

>  Corn ,The "evil' ethanol producer" had risen the least.
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