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Re: grounding without explanation.
From: Bill B
Date: 2006 Jul 19, 15:05 -0500
> But even then, "out of reach" is the catch. Gasoline and diesel can be built
> without crude oil, and marketed profitably at $5/gallon. That's also been
> known commercially for decades. So what we can be fairly certain about, is
> that US prices will rise to about $5/gallon, at which point we can build all
> the fuel we want or need for another 300 years. (There's a 250-year supply in
> the Canadian oil sands, and a 400-year supply in the US with domestic coal,
> and there are processes to synthesize premium light sweet crude from organic
> garbage currently on line, with no limit aside from how much garbage can we
> make)
Let's not forget our brothers and sisters in the corn belt, and ethanol. As
petroleum based fuels go up in price, the economics of ethanol production
look better and better by comparison, and the resources are renewable.
On the lighter side, I was listening to an accountant friend speaking about
investing in landfills to capture the gas they release (methane?) during a
recent sailing trip. A landfill has what is called a "Buick Factor." The
higher the ratio of automobiles to garbage, the less desirable the property.
Bill
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From: Bill B
Date: 2006 Jul 19, 15:05 -0500
> But even then, "out of reach" is the catch. Gasoline and diesel can be built
> without crude oil, and marketed profitably at $5/gallon. That's also been
> known commercially for decades. So what we can be fairly certain about, is
> that US prices will rise to about $5/gallon, at which point we can build all
> the fuel we want or need for another 300 years. (There's a 250-year supply in
> the Canadian oil sands, and a 400-year supply in the US with domestic coal,
> and there are processes to synthesize premium light sweet crude from organic
> garbage currently on line, with no limit aside from how much garbage can we
> make)
Let's not forget our brothers and sisters in the corn belt, and ethanol. As
petroleum based fuels go up in price, the economics of ethanol production
look better and better by comparison, and the resources are renewable.
On the lighter side, I was listening to an accountant friend speaking about
investing in landfills to capture the gas they release (methane?) during a
recent sailing trip. A landfill has what is called a "Buick Factor." The
higher the ratio of automobiles to garbage, the less desirable the property.
Bill
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