Reply #29: This is Bullshit. Just another perpetual motion machine [View All]

[ThomWV]

Look the only way you can make ethanol at anything like a reasonable price in this country is to make corn at over 100 bushels per acre. In order to do that you need to add roughly 100 pounds of nitrogen per acre. The way to do that is with amonia nitrate. Its a white grandular stuff that will melt in your hands - it looks a lot like styrefoam beads. It not only makes a great fertilizer but its an even better explosive. The stuff is made by processing natural gas. That natural gas, to a large extent, is imported from Canada. The last time I looked Canada was well past peak gas. Their rate of production was slipping at about 8% per year the last time I looked.

So to rehash:

To make ethanol you need alcohol.

To get the alcohol you need corn.

To make the corn you need fertilizer

To make the fertilzer you need natural gas

To get the natural gas we import from Canada

Canada is running out of natural gas.

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