Comments on: Ethanol Glut Puts Third Plant on Hold in as Many Months

By: A Vicious Circle | Akca Welders - Welding Tig Welders Mig Welders

A Vicious Circle | Akca Welders - Welding Tig Welders Mig Welders — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:50:13 +0000

[...] soon we notice that too many people are building ethanol plants. This is causing a glut of ethanol, and putting downward pressure on the price of ethanol. On the [...]

By: how to donate a car

how to donate a car — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:10:37 +0000

Is it a good time to be doing this with the state of the economy?

By: Me

Me — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:35:14 +0000

Ethanol makers keep saying that we get rebates when we use their garbage, and that its given at the pump. WRONG!!! Due to ethanol being subsidized MORE is spent on every drop of the junk. Let alone the Fact that you get Less horsepower and gas milege from the blend. I have seen some cars that the manufacturer says not to put the junk in their cars. And have seen some cars that are higher end, quality cars that lose almost 40 percent in mileage as compaired to running on straight gasoline. But every one of these companies will argue with people that know, mechanics like me and other that can run the numbers and they will say we are wrong. Well when you go from 48 mph on gas to 30 and it never comes back up because of the damage the crap causes. Doen't tell me that it is of a benifit to anyone but them and car manufacturers who get to have you come and have to buy a new car more often because of the damage and extra wear and tear that ethanol puts on an engine and the gaskets and everything that this junk goes through to get to the engine.

By: DR_sfZed

DR_sfZed — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:45:59 +0000

Even if ethanol condensed from the air with NO COST, E10 would still be a loser. Ethanol, in low concentrations, changes the burn profile of gas so that engines cannot optimize it. The result: mpg goes down by 12-20%. So you burn more gas with E10 ethanol than if you took the ethanol out!

So the EPA has probably checked this and declared me wrong... Nope. It turns out that the EPA doesn't test E10 . Because Bush Sr. gave the oil companies a waver to add E10 without testing.

We should push the EPA to add E10 (versus pure octane gas) to their testing. It will cost us $250k/yr and we'll make save $200,000,000k/yr. How many million-bagger investments do you have?

By: Ethanol Deathwatch: Pacific Ethanol Suspends Madera Plant « Earth2Tech

Ethanol Deathwatch: Pacific Ethanol Suspends Madera Plant « Earth2Tech — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:30:32 +0000

[...] plans and moving slower than most had predicted in 2008. In December 2007, Pacific Ethanol also suspended construction plans for a 50-million-gallon-per-year plant near Calipatria, Calif. We added Pacific Ethanol’s [...]

By: Earth2Tech » Blog Archive » Ethanol Deathwatch: Another One Bites the Dust

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:58:27 +0000

[...] dropping faster than the price of Christmas cards in January. Earlier this week, construction of the third plant in as many months was put on hold, with Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) (which was recently ditched by Bill Gates) suspending the building of [...]

By: Ethanol Deathwatch: Another One Bites the Dust « Earth2Tech

Ethanol Deathwatch: Another One Bites the Dust « Earth2Tech — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:02:11 +0000

By: U.S. & China: Green Competitors and Allies « Earth2Tech

U.S. & China: Green Competitors and Allies « Earth2Tech — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:18:28 +0000

[...] some major growing pains and many ethanol producers are holding off on increasing production “until market conditions improve.” All of this follows last week’s filing by China’s largest biodiesel producer, [...]

By: plete

plete — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:41:05 +0000

If cornrows were subsidized would cause trouble in the haircare industry?

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:13:13 +0000

Corn is very inefficient to make ethanol... It's impossible create a market based on subsidies...