If we move to ethanol then the price of corn is going to go through the roof. Doesn’t Obama care about food prices? Why not let the market decide which energy is best. Right now the market is moving towards Natural Gas. Why don’t the Demonrats mind their own business?
Its pollution free compared to gasoline. [...]
•Immediately after taking office in 2009, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, canceled 77 leases for oil and gas drilling in Utah.
•The EPA announced new rules mandating the use of 36 billion gallons worth of renewable fuels (like ethanol) by 2020.
•Last summer President Obama needlessly instituted, not one, but two outright drilling bans in the Gulf [...]
To make matters worse, he has also shutdown Off Shore Alaska Drilling. Also, Food Prices are rising, since it takes 40 percent of America’s corn production to produce a measly 8 % of our energy needs with the amount of Ethanol that is produced. We had better hurry up and Vote Obama Out, [...]
I was just wondering. I know that fractional distillation can be used for that, but that’s as far as I go. I also found out today that car gas has 10% of ethanol, or pure alcohol. Can you describe the process and what’s it’s called to transform (or separate) petroleum into car gas and other [...]
With their moratorium on oil drilling, still to this day
Their obstructionist attitude to new drilling for oil, natural gas and coal
Can we safely say that Obama is creating an energy crisis?
I agree that the Ethanol fiasco is unfortunate. To subsidize an energy source that is more expensive, more corrosive to engines and more polluting, is [...]
Ethanol is food based did government realized food can help a lot of poor, war & etc country people.
Menthanol is coal based coal is not human basic need not like food. Without food human cannot survive but without coal human can survive.
Gasoline is produced from crude oil,a nonrenewable resource. Ethanol is mixed with gasoline to produced a fuel called gasohol. Calculate the mass (in grams) of water produced when 66.89 g of ethanol is burned in 56.51 g of oxygen.
C2H5OH + O2 → CO2 + H2O
Ethanol is currently produced by fermentation of corn. There are other ways such as the fermentation of whole plants, like "switchgrass", a native North American grass. How ecology friendly is ethanol — its use, it production by various methods?
Why our cars/boats won’t run on ethanol?
I know the sources of petroleum and ethanol.
Say I have 1 gallon of ethanol, can I just pour them into my car, and expect my car to run? If not, why? Since that oil is depleting fast, shouldn’t we concern about "what’s" next?
Most of current machine need petroleum for energy resource but the petroleum deposit currently becoming smaller from day to day. Many new alternative energy is prepared to replace it such as ethanol, hydrogen, etc. But to replace or modify current machines to fit with those new energy will cost much.
I keep watching the price of oil and it’s going up, even though the demand for gas is going down. People are not driving as much and they added ethanol to cut down our dependence on foreign oil. What is going on?
Can anyone give me a legitimate reason why we dont allow drilling here?Dont hack the answer with the same canned stuff about the environment,how evil oil is to(the false) global warming.Why is it the house and senate dont want us to drill?
Oh and p.s……Its the oil companies spending the money for exploration,not the govt(but they [...]