Re: Why diesel fuel is getting more and more expensive.
- From: "Dave" <daveh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 01:10:54 -0000
Still cheaper than your medication and therapy Wilma!
Sorry about that incident with the bear in the woods by the way. I saw you
on the national news - must have hurt like hell eh?
Still at least you've got three holes that crap comes out of now.
Dave
(Going out of his way to take Wilma seriously)
"Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You can blame it on the global warming crowd. In particular, ethanol is
mostly the reason diesel prices are going up fast. How can ethanol be
blamed?
Corn and/or sugar cane is used to make ethanol which is then used as a
gasoline additive. But ethanol is more expensive than gasoline to produce
and has fewer BTUs per liter so it's less efficient. But, the 'greenies'
think ethanol is the way to go and they've managed to convince dumb
politicians to legislate its use. But, it turns out ethanol is NOT the
way to go. It's not because:
1) Using corn and sugar cane for fuel for vehicles causes related food
prices to go up. So people who buy and eat corn, food products made from
corn, sugar and food with sugar added (which is just about everything
these days - just examine your rotten teeth!) etc. are subsidizing
ethanol. You're paying more for food so motorists can have more plentiful
supplies of gasoline to burn in their cars.
2) It takes lots of diesel fuel to plow the fields, plant the corn and
cane, cultivate it to keep the weeds at bay, fertilize it, etc. It takes
diesel to harvest corn and sugar cane. It takes diesel fuel for the
distilleries and for the tanker trucks to transport the ethanol to market.
3) Every product that's transported by trucks (you British blokes call
them lorries, I believe- how quaint?) ends up having higher transport
costs because diesel costs more because more of it is being used to make
ethanol.
Chew on that nut when it comes time to fill up your diesel boat's fuel
tank.
Wilbur Hubbard
(going out of his way to educate Brits)
.
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