Comments on: Growth Energy Responds to Cornell Paper http://domesticfuel.com/2010/02/25/growth-energy-responds-to-cornell-paper/ Alternative Fuel News Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:31:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chip Daigle http://domesticfuel.com/2010/02/25/growth-energy-responds-to-cornell-paper/comment-page-1/#comment-119404 Chip Daigle Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:46:42 +0000 http://domesticfuel.com/?p=22806#comment-119404 Mr Buis makes a good point that it is in our national interest to make Ethanol here to reduce our dependency on Foreign oil. If our young, naïve, irresponsible President and his Cronie Dems in Congress could just require all new vehicles be E85 Flex Fuel vehicles then we would be well on our way to being immune to spikes in the price of Oil because of some fake crisis in the mid East. We could simply flip the switch and add more Ethanol to our fuel to get through the crisis. What Mr Buis fails to mention is that Corn Ethanol made with Coal only gets 10% CO2 reduction, and if it is made with Natural Gas Burners it gets only 25% CO2 Reduction. The 59% and the 85% figures are a switch bait tactic and have nothing to do with Corn Ethanol. On the other hand, Gen 1 Sugarcane Ethanol gets a whopping 85% CO2 Reduction from Gasoline. CO2 is the major pollutant in our air. The Cornell study compares the total GHG’s from Gasoline to Ethanol, and ignores the fact that CO2 is clearly more significant than other GHG’s. Because of that, I have to give them an F on their paper. Mr Buis makes a good point that it is in our national interest to make Ethanol here to reduce our dependency on Foreign oil. If our young, naïve, irresponsible President and his Cronie Dems in Congress could just require all new vehicles be E85 Flex Fuel vehicles then we would be well on our way to being immune to spikes in the price of Oil because of some fake crisis in the mid East. We could simply flip the switch and add more Ethanol to our fuel to get through the crisis.

What Mr Buis fails to mention is that Corn Ethanol made with Coal only gets 10% CO2 reduction, and if it is made with Natural Gas Burners it gets only 25% CO2 Reduction. The 59% and the 85% figures are a switch bait tactic and have nothing to do with Corn Ethanol. On the other hand, Gen 1 Sugarcane Ethanol gets a whopping 85% CO2 Reduction from Gasoline. CO2 is the major pollutant in our air. The Cornell study compares the total GHG’s from Gasoline to Ethanol, and ignores the fact that CO2 is clearly more significant than other GHG’s. Because of that, I have to give them an F on their paper.

]]> By: Worldwide Oil Subsidies Could Top $500 Billion http://domesticfuel.com/2010/02/25/growth-energy-responds-to-cornell-paper/comment-page-1/#comment-119367 Worldwide Oil Subsidies Could Top $500 Billion Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:02:02 +0000 http://domesticfuel.com/?p=22806#comment-119367 [...] response to this early draft, Tom Buis, with Growth Energy, an organization that represents the US ethanol industry said, “This study confirms what millions of Americans have known all along. Our addiction to oil [...] [...] response to this early draft, Tom Buis, with Growth Energy, an organization that represents the US ethanol industry said, “This study confirms what millions of Americans have known all along. Our addiction to oil [...]

]]> By: Worldwide Oil Subsidies Could Top $500 Billion - Domestic Fuel http://domesticfuel.com/2010/02/25/growth-energy-responds-to-cornell-paper/comment-page-1/#comment-119356 Worldwide Oil Subsidies Could Top $500 Billion - Domestic Fuel Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:17:07 +0000 http://domesticfuel.com/?p=22806#comment-119356 [...] response to this early draft, Tom Buis, with Growth Energy, an organization that represents the US ethanol industry said, “This study confirms what millions of Americans have known all along. Our addiction to [...] [...] response to this early draft, Tom Buis, with Growth Energy, an organization that represents the US ethanol industry said, “This study confirms what millions of Americans have known all along. Our addiction to [...]

]]> By: Tim Dillard http://domesticfuel.com/2010/02/25/growth-energy-responds-to-cornell-paper/comment-page-1/#comment-119117 Tim Dillard Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:44:28 +0000 http://domesticfuel.com/?p=22806#comment-119117 One wonders whether Mr. Buis even read the paper... Since the paper may be too academic for a lobbyist to read, I suggest he should listen to the podcast at http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/aepp/podcast.html One wonders whether Mr. Buis even read the paper… Since the paper may be too academic for a lobbyist to read, I suggest he should listen to the podcast at http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/aepp/podcast.html

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