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[Untitled] Ethanol - good news and bad - GreenHybrid - Hybrid Cars: He said hybrids and fuel cells would have little impact on overall use of gasoline over the next 15 years, but half of GM's vehicles will be able to run on flex-fuel (ethanol or gasoline) by 2012. Wagoner said that if all the flex-fuel vehicles made by GM, Ford and Chrysler were to run on ethanol through 2020 the U.S. could displace 29 billion gallons of gasoline annually, or 18 percent of the projected annual usage.

[Untitled] Stanford University Study Shows Ethanol to be Worst Form of ...: Like most alternative fuels, there are advantages and disadvantages. Producing ethanol from corn seems to me to be a total waste, brought on by Archer Daniels Midland and all their lobbying money. 

[Untitled] The Secretary of Agriculture’s Climate Challenge - Green Inc. Blog ...: Even after a protest campaign and vilsack withdrawing his name in response earlier, obama still appoints him. Also, paul volcker, a recently appointed economic advisor to obama, was involved in the destruction of American manufacturing and breaking the Air Traffic Controllers Union under reagan.

[GreenEnergyForEarth.com - Includes Solar and Wind Power Products] 2008 USA Election Results: Obama & Alternative Energy: [...] 2008 USA Election Results: Obama & Alternative Energy Nov 5, 2008 - During the 2008 election campaign, Obama specifically promised the USA would spend $15 billion a year for the next 10 years.  Alternative power projects are likely to pass with a Democratic president and a Democratic-controlled Congress.  Obama supports subsidies for both solar and wind power.  The tax credit legislation is already law signed by President Bush.  He is less supportive of nuclear energy and offshore drilling, but not outright against them.  How is a windfall tax on [...]

[Untitled] Future Of Ethanol May Come From “Sweet Sorghum” Production As It ...: Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) and VeraSun Energy (VSE) do not have to go to Brazil to start producing ethanol from sugar cane. Instead, they should talk to farmers about producing sweet sorghum instead of corn.

[Untitled] The Stimulus Plan « Jon Taplin’s Blog: The bogus ethanol from corn razzle-dazzle that keeps the Archer Daniels Midlands types going because they get fab corporate welfare checks. The alternative energy scene will be the wild, wild west of this century.

[Untitled] Hybrid/Electric Tech Companies Meet in DC - CleanMPG Forums: The distribution problem of ethanol is rather minor in comparison to some of the others (I can get E85 around here easily, and the stations also carry all three regular grades). The biggest problem with it right now is that few vehicles can use it, and those that do don't make full use of it's properties.

[Untitled] Fuel Making Fungus. Ew. | The Truth About Cars: if this pans out, I fear Archer Daniels Midlands will manage it that corn continues to be the feedstock used. Yes, but making sure that every acre of biodiverse forest is burned to the ground in favour of genetically homogenous corn .

[Untitled] Plant Plastic Promise - from ecomii blogs: This joint venture with Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) produces Mirelâ™ natural plastics, made from corn, cane sugar, or vegetable oils. Disposable cutlery, food packaging and even fabrics made from corn have been on the market for several .

[Untitled] The Hill’s Pundits Blog » Fiasco: Still on Our Knees, to Big Oil: Simultaneously, Kenya, a nation whose population of 37 million is half again as great as that of Saudi Arabia, managed to scrape up around $2.5 billion in export earnings, and then had to use these precious funds to buy grossly overpriced but badly needed fuel (from Saudi Arabia and other OPEC states), with only a pittance left to purchase farm machinery, replacement parts, and other vital equipment. Kenya, incidentally, is not even one of the world’s fifty poorest nations;

[Untitled] Clean Break » 2007 » April » 24: The leader in this area is Metabolix, which through a joint venture with Archer Daniel Midlands is moving aggressively to make corn-based plastic cups, bags, utensils, and the like. While I think more study is needed to examine the .

[Enochsvision's Blog] Why Is My Gas Mileage So Good?: “Although American consumers are becoming more aware of environmental issues, they’re a long way from choosing vehicles for purely altruistic ecological reasons. ‘By and large most people believe that they have a right, a God-given American right, to drive whatever car they want and can afford,’

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