Comments on: Why Can’t the U.S. Duplicate Brazil’s Success with Ethanol? http://www.thelangreport.com/solvers-and-solutions/why-cant-the-us-duplicate-brazils-success-with-ethanol/ Commentaries on the World's Past and Current Events Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:26:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta3 hourly 1 By: Michael Lang http://www.thelangreport.com/solvers-and-solutions/why-cant-the-us-duplicate-brazils-success-with-ethanol/comment-page-1/#comment-3818 Michael Lang Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:52:35 +0000 http://www.thelangreport.com/solvers-and-solutions/why-cant-the-us-duplicate-brazils-success-with-ethanol#comment-3818 Marcos, we always welcome comments, but especially appreciate those that inform, furthering the awareness and knowledge of the subject matter. So we thank you for the information you've provided. Hopefully it is solution based comments like yours that will lead to solution based action. Mike Lang Publisher Marcos, we always welcome comments, but especially appreciate those that inform, furthering the awareness and knowledge of the subject matter.
So we thank you for the information you’ve provided. Hopefully it is solution based comments like yours that will lead to solution based action.

Mike Lang
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]]> By: Marcos http://www.thelangreport.com/solvers-and-solutions/why-cant-the-us-duplicate-brazils-success-with-ethanol/comment-page-1/#comment-3817 Marcos Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:09:38 +0000 http://www.thelangreport.com/solvers-and-solutions/why-cant-the-us-duplicate-brazils-success-with-ethanol#comment-3817 I think you mean well and your article is on point. However, you neglect to point out that presently the waste product of corn based ethanol production is a superb animal feed (DDG) and the corn stalks are used for silage, feed and soil conditioning. Nothing is burned in the process. Cane is burned and the bagasse while suited for eventual conversion to more ethanol is burnt for steam heat. The food cycle is helped with corn based ethanol. Eventually DDG will be made for human consumption. This is a fact that cannot escape the reality of future grown. Also, its just fine to have both kinds of ethanol production. Why give up one for another. The US will not divert its sugar cane to ethanol and the US needs to have some degree of self sufficiency in production of alternative fuels. I think you mean well and your article is on point. However, you neglect to point out that presently the waste product of corn based ethanol production is a superb animal feed (DDG) and the corn stalks are used for silage, feed and soil conditioning. Nothing is burned in the process. Cane is burned and the bagasse while suited for eventual conversion to more ethanol is burnt for steam heat. The food cycle is helped with corn based ethanol. Eventually DDG will be made for human consumption. This is a fact that cannot escape the reality of future grown. Also, its just fine to have both kinds of ethanol production. Why give up one for another. The US will not divert its sugar cane to ethanol and the US needs to have some degree of self sufficiency in production of alternative fuels.

]]> By: Michael Lang http://www.thelangreport.com/solvers-and-solutions/why-cant-the-us-duplicate-brazils-success-with-ethanol/comment-page-1/#comment-3588 Michael Lang Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:55:57 +0000 http://www.thelangreport.com/solvers-and-solutions/why-cant-the-us-duplicate-brazils-success-with-ethanol#comment-3588 I couldn't agree more with you as it is criminal that we still rely on fossil fuels to our detriment even though there are viable alternative already available. We, and our children's children will pay a very dear price as they wonder what the hell we were doing when the writing was on the wall! Mike Lang Publisher I couldn’t agree more with you as it is criminal that we still rely on fossil fuels to our detriment even though there are viable alternative already available. We, and our children’s children will pay a very dear price as they wonder what the hell we were doing when the writing was on the wall!

Mike Lang
Publisher

]]> By: Draining America’s Oil is NOT a Solution | http://www.thelangreport.com/solvers-and-solutions/why-cant-the-us-duplicate-brazils-success-with-ethanol/comment-page-1/#comment-3570 Draining America’s Oil is NOT a Solution | Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:44:33 +0000 http://www.thelangreport.com/solvers-and-solutions/why-cant-the-us-duplicate-brazils-success-with-ethanol#comment-3570 [...] aggressively forego petroleum in favor of smart, sustainable, and alternative sources of fuel. Brazil has transformed its energy production with ethanol made from sugar cane. Cane ethanol is 800 percent [...] [...] aggressively forego petroleum in favor of smart, sustainable, and alternative sources of fuel. Brazil has transformed its energy production with ethanol made from sugar cane. Cane ethanol is 800 percent [...]

]]> By: p. m. nayab http://www.thelangreport.com/solvers-and-solutions/why-cant-the-us-duplicate-brazils-success-with-ethanol/comment-page-1/#comment-3567 p. m. nayab Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:28:10 +0000 http://www.thelangreport.com/solvers-and-solutions/why-cant-the-us-duplicate-brazils-success-with-ethanol#comment-3567 taking into account all cross views it is really frustrating to see that US is not taking lead in this regard.This only helps to consolidate the view that The car & oil co. loby is so strong that it prevails on administration to see that alternative fuels not used. It is time that people should come out and demonstrate for administration should take steps to inplement right policy. taking into account all cross views it is really frustrating to see that US is not taking lead in this regard.This only helps to consolidate the view that The car & oil co. loby is so strong that it prevails on administration to see that alternative fuels not used.
It is time that people should come out and demonstrate for administration should take steps to inplement right policy.

]]> By: Michael Lang http://www.thelangreport.com/solvers-and-solutions/why-cant-the-us-duplicate-brazils-success-with-ethanol/comment-page-1/#comment-3324 Michael Lang Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:58:07 +0000 http://www.thelangreport.com/solvers-and-solutions/why-cant-the-us-duplicate-brazils-success-with-ethanol#comment-3324 Thank you for you most informative comment as well as your compliments. The simple answer to why we aren't agressively seeking viable solutions is money. Not the lack of it but whose pockets it has been going into and there desire to maintain that status quo. The technology and "know how" is and has been available for some time now but it won't be applied! Conversely, when President John Kennedy challenged America to put a man on the moon by the end of that decade, we did not have most of the technology and infrastructure that would be needed. But we did it despite of those things. My hope is that our next President (hopefully Obama) will issue a similar challenge to "kick the oil habit" and replace it with viable alternatives. OK? Michael Lang Publisher Thank you for you most informative comment as well as your compliments.
The simple answer to why we aren’t agressively seeking viable solutions is money. Not the lack of it but whose pockets it has been going into and there desire to maintain that status quo.
The technology and “know how” is and has been available for some time now but it won’t be applied!
Conversely, when President John Kennedy challenged America to put a man on the moon by the end of that decade, we did not have most of the technology and infrastructure that would be needed. But we did it despite of those things.
My hope is that our next President (hopefully Obama) will issue a similar challenge to “kick the oil habit” and replace it with viable alternatives.
OK?

Michael Lang
Publisher

]]> By: Clean_Burning http://www.thelangreport.com/solvers-and-solutions/why-cant-the-us-duplicate-brazils-success-with-ethanol/comment-page-1/#comment-3304 Clean_Burning Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:34:29 +0000 http://www.thelangreport.com/solvers-and-solutions/why-cant-the-us-duplicate-brazils-success-with-ethanol#comment-3304 US production of ethanol is indeed a farce! Especially since we have Natural Gas as a domestically abundant and perfectly viable alternative fuel source. Compressed Natural Gas or (CNG) is the cleanest burning of all fuels. Unlike ethanol, it will not add to the pollution problem with an “energy negative” content that makes it both a waste of time and money. As more people realize that “growing our own fuel” is a dangerous slogan, which endangers the environment and the livelihood of regular folks around the world, the demand for Natural Gas as the cost-effective alternative is increasing quite naturally. So much so that, the Energy Information Administration's (EIA) projects that worldwide demand for Natural Gas will increase by 52 percent from 2005 to 2030. Why doesn’t the US make environmentally sound policy decisions? Why aren’t we ensuring a future of sustainable energy by investing in the infrastructure necessary to supply us all with Natural Gas, which many researchers regard as the one practical bridge to hydrogen? More sinister schemes perhaps? Conspiracy theories aside, your article is a great contribution towards arriving at the bottom-line truth-ethanol stinks-Thanks! US production of ethanol is indeed a farce! Especially since we have Natural Gas as a domestically abundant and perfectly viable alternative fuel source.

Compressed Natural Gas or (CNG) is the cleanest burning of all fuels. Unlike ethanol, it will not add to the pollution problem with an “energy negative” content that makes it both a waste of time and money. As more people realize that “growing our own fuel” is a dangerous slogan, which endangers the environment and the livelihood of regular folks around the world, the demand for Natural Gas as the cost-effective alternative is increasing quite naturally.

So much so that, the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) projects that worldwide demand for Natural Gas will increase by 52 percent from 2005 to 2030.

Why doesn’t the US make environmentally sound policy decisions? Why aren’t we ensuring a future of sustainable energy by investing in the infrastructure necessary to supply us all with Natural Gas, which many researchers regard as the one practical bridge to hydrogen?

More sinister schemes perhaps? Conspiracy theories aside, your article is a great contribution towards arriving at the bottom-line truth-ethanol stinks-Thanks!

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