[Terrapreta] evil ethanol

[Gerald Van Koeverden]

Sorry.

Lost the actual link.  Here's the whole program



On 22-Apr-08, at 1:13 PM, Mark Ludlow wrote:

> Gerald,
> Could you please check the link? I only come up with the Thai page  
> and no spreadsheet. Good point about corn.
>
> Thanks!
> Mark
>
> From: terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org [mailto:terrapreta- 
> bounces at bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Gerald Van Koeverden
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:46 AM
> To: terra pretta group
> Subject: [Terrapreta] evil ethanol
>
> 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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