[Homestead] Fall Happenings
Lynda
lurine at softcom.net
Tue Oct 21 02:11:22 EDT 2008
The subsidy *was* 77 cents/gallon. They are talking about raising it! Un
freaking real!
Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: <Clansgian at wmconnect.com>
>
> They have not gotten more efficient and your figures are about right. You
> get
> the positive BTU yield by saying that the spent mash *can* be used for
> feed
> stuffs and then adding into the formula all the oil it would take to grow
> that
> equivalent amount of feed grains. Several things wrong with this: The
> mash
> sours quickly and then must be used very sparaingly as feed. Unless this
> has
> changed, distilleries are not located at feedlots so there is the cost of
> handling and hauling the stuff. For the moat part the feed value of the
> spent
> grains is theoretical rather than actual.
>
> Keep in mind too that a gallon of ethanol only has 2/3 the btu's of
> gasoline.
>
> If ethanol were not being heavily subsidized, if it were a business
> depending
> on profit, it would be bankrupt tomorrow. And now that gasoline is
> backing
> off in price and ehtanol can't, who would buy the stuff? Locally gasoline
> is
> $2.59 a gallon and E85 is $2.39. Owing to less btu's and less mileage, if
> you
> buy the E85 now, you lose.
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