Can you give me any proposal about ethanol?

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Answer 1

The Democrats promise hope and change. Let's hope we develop our domestic energy sources, starting with ANWR. Now that would be a real change.

The heads-in-the-tundra crowd is led by Hillary Clinton. She has voted no fewer than nine times to block drilling in a tiny, frozen part of ANWR. Her husband first blocked ANWR development in 1995. After Hurricane Katrina disabled offshore oil platforms, revealing our energy vulnerability, Mrs. Clinton said: "It makes no sense to respond to a disaster in the Gulf by making a disaster in Alaska."

Never mind that the caribou and other critters have thrived despite drilling in Prudhoe Bay, which recently delivered its 15 billionth barrel of oil through the Alaska pipeline. Oil from ANWR could meet all of New York's petroleum needs for 34 years, yet the state's junior senator opposes getting it.

"ANWR would supply every drop of petroleum for Florida for 29 years," said former Interior Secretary Gale Norton, "New York for 34 years, California for 16 years or New Hampshire for 315 years." It could also supply Washington, D.C., a place where there's no shortage of hot air, for 1,710 years.

In 2005, the Senate voted twice by narrow margins on amendments authorizing ANWR drilling to a budget resolution bill (March 16) and a budget reconciliation bill (Nov. 3). Forty-one Democrats voted against both. Twenty-three of them were around to have voted against ANWR in 1995.

Barack Obama, who has voted twice against drilling in ANWR, has noted that a "large portion of the $800 million we spend on foreign oil every day goes to some of the world's most volatile regimes." Still, he says that "we cannot drill our way out of the problem." Call this the audacity of helplessness.

Answer 2

For many years the G&H sugar company provided all the electricity for the Island of oahu(i think ,I know it was one of the islands) just on the waste alcohol produced as a byproduct of their sugarcane processing. I would think sugarcane or sorghum would be a very good choice for ethanol production.

Answer 3

I propose to drink as much ethanol as possible.

Answer 4

The best proposal that I can think of is what is already being attempted. That is: alcohol production from non-farm sources such as switch grass, biowaste such as wood chips, sawdust, crop leftovers (stalks and such). That kind of alcohol production wouldn't take away from the food supply (excepting for switch grass that might compete for farmable land).

Current use of alcohol is in displacing oil/gasoline by making it 10% of every gallon of gas purchased. (This is only done in select areas and by select brands of gasoline. I think that most states require that they post this where the consumer can see it too.) This works very well in reducing oil use by an almost equal percentage as the amount of alcohol included in each gallon. For the most part up to 10% alcohol can be used with minimal effect to an ordinary vehicles operation. Above 10% though the vehicle needs to be equipped with improved fuel system and ignition equipment to handle the different characteristics of alcohol as a fuel.

I've added a few sources to get you started....

Timothy D.

West Melbourne, FL

Answer 5

Everyone should buy a car that runs on E-85 Ethanol, couse we can keep crowing it and as lomg as we have corn, we have fuel. Short and sweet, isn't it.

Answer 6

Ethanol is kind of a cop-out.

I think if we could get into battery-electric cars, the economic effects would quickly bring the cost down to gas cars [right now they are technically cheaper because gas is so expensive], and battery technology could catch up.

Answer 7

pig manure

Answer 8

Bio-fuel can be made from algae.  Well over 70% of the earth's surface is water, which is a good place to grow algae.  Also see:

http://www.friendlyinnovators.com/mn/200...