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In case you don’t have time to the entire one hour press conference from last week, here’s a six minute summary. This “Ethanol Report” podcast features comments from the four agriculture and ethanol industry leaders who participated in a press conference on April 30 about the role of biofuels in food price increases. Featured are former Agriculture Secretary John Block, National Corn Growers Association CEO Rick Tolman, National Farmers Union president Tom Buis and RFA president Bob Dinneen.
You can subscribe to “The Ethanol Report” by following this link.
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Ethanol Report 12 (5:45 MP3 file)
DReinert Said,
July 30, 2008 @ 1:56 pm
Although I’m all for doing what we can to reduce our reliance on foreign oil, I’m still not so sold on ethanol as the answer. I fail to see addressed why, if this is such an efficient answer, we the taxpayers have to subsidize ethanol for 51 cents a gallon. Taking that into consideration, we’re pre-paying for a part of our fuel, and if we weren’t subsidizing the cost just how expensive would our ethanol gas be at the pumps? I feel it would actually be less expensive to not contain ethanol. I noticed that flex fuel cars get far inferior mileage on E85 than they do on regular gas, due to the lower energy content of ethanol. With the coal or natural gas to produce ethanol, cost of growing, transportation, figured in, exactly what is the amount of energy consumer to produce ethanol as opposed to the energy available to the car? With the increasing price of a bushel of corn, what exactly is the cost of producing a gallon of ethanol as opposed to producing a gallon of oil? Farmers are making money, especially those shifting from food grains to corn for ethanol, corporations making ethanol are making money, but since I’m already subsidizing the making of ethanol and then buying it again at the pump I get the feeling I’m being fleeced.
Noemà Caballero Said,
October 20, 2008 @ 4:54 am
I would like to have this ethanol report