What it costs to explore for, drill for refine and transport fossil fuels is rarely considered, because we only see the end product.

Even though the human (war) and environmental (global warming) costs are shown on the nightly news, we tend not to make the connection and blame it all on one political party or another.

We are a confused lot. We drive our petroleum burning cars and trucks to “No Blood For Oil” protest rallies, dressed in clothing that was manufactured and transported by petroleum dependant industries, then go to restaurants that cook food that was raised, processed and transported by petroleum dependant industies on stoves and grilles that are powered by petroleum dependant power plants.

Efficiency is a term we have a hard time wrapping our minds around. We need to stop splitting the term into politically convenient fragments and look at it as a whole entity.

Switching to ethanol, or better yet, celluline, opens many opportunities all along the consumer scale.

For instance, as I have posted on other threads, I am developing a business producing high performance ethanol-burning crate engines for sale to individuals who wish to swap out their petroleum burning engines.

I am also looking for acreage to raise switchgrass and/or Jerusalem artichokes for sale to ethanol plants.

Both of these endeavors will employ several workers and help move America toward energy independence.

Rather than stomp around with hateful little signs protesting “war for oil”, I am actually doing something toward the day when America can tell OPEC to stuff it, and we won’t have to keep the oil flowing with American blood.

I know I am not the only one. Americans are too great a people for that. The problem is, we have forgotten what “sacrifice” means. We feel entitled to never have to do that. Until we change that mindset, we will never rise above petty politcal squabbling, and in fact may well descend into mediocrity among nations.

I will now deflated my portable soapbox. Contributions of intelligent reasoning and inovation will be gladly accepted by America!

What it costs to explore for, drill for refine and transport fossil fuels is rarely considered, because we only see the end product.

Even though the human (war) and environmental (global warming) costs are shown on the nightly news, we tend not to make the connection and blame it all on one political party or another.

We are a confused lot. We drive our petroleum burning cars and trucks to “No Blood For Oil” protest rallies, dressed in clothing that was manufactured and transported by petroleum dependant industries, then go to restaurants that cook food that was raised, processed and transported by petroleum dependant industies on stoves and grilles that are powered by petroleum dependant power plants.

Efficiency is a term we have a hard time wrapping our minds around. We need to stop splitting the term into politically convenient fragments and look at it as a whole entity.

Switching to ethanol, or better yet, celluline, opens many opportunities all along the consumer scale.

For instance, as I have posted on other threads, I am developing a business producing high performance ethanol-burning crate engines for sale to individuals who wish to swap out their petroleum burning engines.

I am also looking for acreage to raise switchgrass and/or Jerusalem artichokes for sale to ethanol plants.

Both of these endeavors will employ several workers and help move America toward energy independence.

Rather than stomp around with hateful little signs protesting “war for oil”, I am actually doing something toward the day when America can tell OPEC to stuff it, and we won’t have to keep the oil flowing with American blood.

I know I am not the only one. Americans are too great a people for that. The problem is, we have forgotten what “sacrifice” means. We feel entitled to never have to do that. Until we change that mindset, we will never rise above petty politcal squabbling, and in fact may well descend into mediocrity among nations.

I will now deflated my portable soapbox. Contributions of intelligent reasoning and inovation will be gladly accepted by America!

It’s not an inefficient cycle because the burning of fuel derived from plant material is a closed loop. All the combustion products put into the atmosphere are used in the production of the next year’s fuel crop. Unlike the burning of fossil fuels, which is an additive process where you burn and burn and burn and never replenish.

Your claim that the efficiency is less than fossil fuels is debatable. When you consider all the other inputs that go in to getting fossil fuels out of the ground and to your car, there’s quite a bit of inefficiency there.

Definitely ethanol from corn is not a good way to go and is very much less efficient than fossil fuels. And that’s why ethanol from corn is going the way of the dinosaur.

http://www.syntecbiofuel.com

http://www.fulcrum-bioenergy.com

http://www.rangfuels.com