Sunday, May 07, 2006
Polytx/ethanol
Dateline NBC, May 7th, has a feature on ethanol, and an East Indian millionaire who is pushing its manufacture while explaining that a gallon of ethanol would only cost Americans 70c a gallon, and that it is even now being used at about that price in Brazil, where it is being made with sugarcane.
The fact is, North Dakota has had 10% ethanol in their gasoline for close to 25 years, but the oil companies naturally didn't want competition, and opposed it. It didn't take Brazil or NBC's East Indian to produce an ethanol product for cars.
North Dakotans had the answer for a quarter century, but were stymied by big oil.
Another setback for pollution and clean electricity took place with Pacific Electric cars in L.A. CA where diesel mfgrs and oil bought up the Pacific Electric line that covered Los Angeles, ran from LA to Riverside, CA, at a cost of $1.75, or thereabouts, and converted it to a diesel belching bus operation that brought millions of tons of smog and lung disease to Californians.
Scientists at North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota are smack on top of ethanol properties. Mr. Bush needs to see that these people get research and production monies.
The fact is, North Dakota has had 10% ethanol in their gasoline for close to 25 years, but the oil companies naturally didn't want competition, and opposed it. It didn't take Brazil or NBC's East Indian to produce an ethanol product for cars.
North Dakotans had the answer for a quarter century, but were stymied by big oil.
Another setback for pollution and clean electricity took place with Pacific Electric cars in L.A. CA where diesel mfgrs and oil bought up the Pacific Electric line that covered Los Angeles, ran from LA to Riverside, CA, at a cost of $1.75, or thereabouts, and converted it to a diesel belching bus operation that brought millions of tons of smog and lung disease to Californians.
Scientists at North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota are smack on top of ethanol properties. Mr. Bush needs to see that these people get research and production monies.
