Comments on: E85 Boondoggle Of The Day: Second Generation Fraud

By: paul_y

paul_y — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:46:58 +0000

Biofuels aren’t the problem. It’s the corn industry that is.

…and shysters like these guys.

By: George B

George B — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:49:22 +0000

How has Coskata been doing? Their biomass to syngas, syngas to ethanol two step process allows for the potential “fraud” of substituting old dead plant carbon, coal, in the syngas step. Potential to launder politically incorrect coal into politically favored ethanol.

By: Stein X Leikanger

Stein X Leikanger — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:40:57 +0000

“Growing” biofuels north of Mexico is a loss/loss proposition. You spend more energy than you are creating.

Of course they resorted to fraud – just the water consumption and management related to cracking that much biofuel is cost prohibitive, and an environmental problem, to boot.

This is one gargantuan, enormous, phenomenal con game, and it’s not a solution, it’s adding to the problem.
And 2nd generation biomass is not any better, because of the problems associated with gathering it – to put it mildly, it’s all over the place, compared to the first generation sources.

The sentence “growing fuel for cars” should have started a ten alarm brainstorm somewhere … clearly it didn’t.

By: superbadd75

superbadd75 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:39:20 +0000

I’d much rather have 100% alcohol free gas so I can actually get the fuel mileage I’m supposed to get. I know it’s negligible, but a couple MPG is still a couple MPG!

By: Cicero

Cicero — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:20:46 +0000

The tip of the iceberg. Environmentalism and fraud go together like pea soup and neckties.

BTW, I’m selling ~~indulgences~~ carbon credits cheap if anyone needs any.

By: 50merc

50merc — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:34:42 +0000

This is hilarious. “Company cheats buyers by selling them genuine gasoline!” (Of course, the real crime is that gummint can subsidize this alcohol malarkey up to $3 per gallon.)

Not likely to happen in Oklahoma. All over the state, stations are going to non-adulterated gasoline, hanging huge banners with words such as “100% PURE GASOLINE / NO ETHANOL” to attract customers. The law requires adulterated gas to be disclosed by a sign on the pump.

Of course, the fact that falling gas prices are now close to two bucks per gallon is attractive, too.

By: westcott

westcott — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:34:25 +0000

Isn’t the power of lobbyists incredible? All this money wasted to keep crooked politicians in office. And the farmers love it!!!

I guess you know where the word “bumkin” came from now! Gives a whole new meaning of “power to the people”.