Biodiesel,biobutanol and ethanol…War not required?
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I will be honest and admit my ignorance, I have never heard of Biodiesel or least if I have I have heard called something else but can not even put a term to it. Also if the war is for oil then why is OPEC still running things and wouldn’t it make more sense to go to Africa because that is where most of American Oil comes from
The use of biofuels would certainly reduce our dependence on foreign oil. It would also have a very positive effect on our economy. Think about it. Every dollar spent on foreign oil is a dollar no longer in our economy. Currently it cost about $1 per gallon to construct an ethanol plant, $.65 per gallon to construct a biodiesel plant. If we were to take just what we are spending on the war in Iraq per year and put half of it into constructing Ethanol plants and the other half into biodiesel plants, we could build plants to produce 48 Billion gallons of Ethanol and 73.8 billion gallons of Biodiesel per year. I assume these would be loans, so the Government (taxpayers), would get their money back and we could reduce our dependence on foreign fuel sources by 121.8 billion gallons per year.
The other benefit is to the farmer. With the increased demand for corn and oilseeds(Soybeans and Canola), farm subsidies and price supports would no longer be needed. You can get aprox 1.5 gallons biodiesel from a bushel of soybeans, 2.6 gallons from Canola, and 2.7 gallons of Ethanol from corn. If you do the math, you would need to produce 17.8 Billion more bushels of Corn, 40.6 Billion bushels of Soybeans, and 23.5 billion bushels of canola just to meet the need of these new plants. Given current prices for these crops you would add $427.5 Billion dollars into our economy. How can this be anything but a winner for the American economy and taxpayers.
A wise man once said you get more dividends from a pound of butter than you do from the barrel of a gun. Sorry for the rant, it just make me so mad to waste this opportunity