Ethanolonomics

RE: [spiers] Ethanolonomics

Anthony,

I think that is where we are all heading and I wish I was there already.
Individuals will have to do it because we have no energy leadership in
Washington or from our traditional suppliers.

I dont think there is any Washington solution because they are short term
thinkers and are owned by the oil interests. If our children were short term
thinkers as Washington they would be in theraphy. America has swung to far
to the right especially with the American neocon nazi's.

With power outages and brownouts across the country this summer with people
dying of the heat and many people freezing to death during the winter
already recently, thousands of Americans will probably die when gasoline,
diesel, and heating oil reaches $5 per gallon and hundreds of thousands will
die if it reaches $10.

I expect to have passive electric for my house within 2 years and will look
into creating some sort of bio-fuel in my garage too. My state New Jersey
has a little gasahol (mostly gasoline with a little ethanol) but no E85. If
I could be free from my electric provider and have a 10 to 15 year life and
payback on costs, I would jump at it, meaning $18,000 cash plus rebates and
tax incentives for electric alone. If I could also elliminate my natural gas
used for cooking and clothes drying I could add another $5,000 cash. I could
spend twice that amount more money for the bio fuel theoretically, since I
am frugally spending up to $200 at the pump each month.

We celebrated reaching 200 million in population in 1968 and will increase
50% to 300 million during the first week in November 2006. Nobody can tell
me we maintained the 1968 infrastucture and developed 50% new infrastructure
to prepare for another 100 million in population. All of the Jimmy Carter
energy program has been rolled back long ago an we dont even have
conservation now. We do have more and bigger cars per capita, larger homes,
and more and larger appliances in our homes now. We are also importing 6
times more foreign oil than during Carter's presidency. The energy industry
did not adequately add investment to their supply chain in America also
creating artificial shortages. And Chevron, I think bought and removed from
the market competitive items such as advanced car batteries that can run
long distances with one plug charge. Some oil companies have fields in
America that they have neglected to tap or are very slow to draw crude from
with very high known reserves. This is a perfect case for Eminent Domain to
find developers willing to move rapidly and provide the needed fuels.

By the way. I am a pragmatic free trader... The markets, business, and
government cannot always be trusted...we are paying 2 or 3 times for
gasoline and heating oil as we really should be paying. We should maintain
most industries in America and Americans trained and educated to perform the
work and allow moderate international competition. America should balance
the trade. America let 40,000 chinese illegal aliens free from immigration
holding because China will not take them back this week...what a load of
bull.

Bob Crawford

Read one of my blogs:

http://nationalholiday2006.blogspot.com for more info. I worked for fortune
500 companies in Information Technology for about 30 years until my job got
shipped overseas and I belonged to many professional organizations, some as
officer. I dont know anyone in the business anymore. Many people dont know
that up to 90% of the IT groups and also engineers, accountants,
researchers, writers, graphic artists, and attornies of most US fortune 1000
companies are alien nationals mostly working overseas in their home
countries but many as resident visitors H1B's in America. Indian doctors are
reviewing your radiological tests and sending their findings over the
Internet back to the hospital overnight. I am trying to start over. Many of
us had to sit and train our Indian, Philipino, Irish, or Australian
replacements or be fired immediately without severance.

I also sell since 2002, thousands of imported commodity type gifts, and
other things wholesale to everyone. http://www.vsqigifts.com I have at least
20,000 competitors, probably more like 50,000. I am the poster man of
commodity imported manufactured goods...I should have taken John's course
earlier and followed his advice to go into unique items...I have several
ideas already that I am working to put into motion.

-----Original Message-----
From: spiers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:spiers@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
M A Granich
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 2:04 PM
To: spiers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [spiers] Ethanolonomics


OK, Here is an import idea that could be developed,
but be warned, doing so could change the world.

A closet sized home alcohol fuel manufacturing unit.
One that could fit into a corner of the garage. On
one end, the homeowner drops in grass clippings, yard
waste, apple cores, banana peels, etc... The
cellulosic process transforms the waste. The other
end stores your alcohol fuel.

By the lowest estimate I could find, the cellulosic
process will produce 1 gal of ethanol per 30 lbs of
waste. The byproduct of the process can fertilize
your garden. The heat from the processing could warm
your house.

There are already "make your own bio-diesel" kits, why
not Alcohol?

No government regulations to stop you. Don't have to
worry about an infrastructure to deliver the product.
A black market in yard waste could spring up. Theft
of trash would be a serious concern. Arab governments
would collapse.

Anthony

PS, The NSA has probably read this post. The whole
Spiers group could now be considered subversive.


--- John Spiers wrote:

> Anthony,
>
> My arrgument is fuel is fuel, no matter where it
> comes from, and I'd cast any shortage or other
> crisis as a misallocation problem, borne of govt
> meddling in the markets.
>
> Anything that takes a subsidy cannot be a great
> idea, and any great idea does not need a subsidy,
> it would seem to me. We have no energy crisis,
> merely an asset misallocation.
>
> We need freedom to solve these problem, and without
> it they will only grow worse.
>
> John
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 14:55:24 -0700 (PDT), M A Granich
> wrote :
>
> > Implementing alternative fuels is a political
> problem,
> > not one of feasibility. There are great ideas for
> > producing alternative fuels and increasing the
> > efficiency of the machines that use them. But, an
> > aggregate of government inaction, ineptitude and
> oil
> > company influence have stymied any attempt.
> >
> > Anthony
>
>



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