Will corn based ethanol raise the price of agriculture based goods, Food and clothing?
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corn based ethanol is going bye bye. cellulose based ethanol will replace it over the next 10 years. \n\nWhy? well cellulose convertions are said to be more efficeint than corn based. Corn produces 2.5 tons per acre per season. Cellulose producing crops like Industrial Hemp(legal in canada but not US) produce upwards of 10 tons an acre and is grown without subsidies required to hold down the price of corn. \n\nAlso cotton is more profitable than corn, so is industrial hemp produced for the textile industry. Industrial hemp is also more profitable going to all other uses besides ethanol.\n\nThe food and clothing is already more expensive than ethanol is, so that is an additional shield.
719994
It depends on the fruit. Follow the web link. The article has a ton of fruit prices on it.
551181
If farmers started planting crops for ethanol production and people actually used it, the farmers would make more money than the oil tycoons.  The oil tycoons are so rich and powerful that they will do their best to prevent any of this from happening.
465476
Corn  or vegetable oil
384032
The most recent spike in prices is due to the elimination of MTBE as an oxidiant in gasoline. The rules protecting the seller from lawsuite over MTBE change on May 5. There is a serious concern there might not be sufficient ethanol to make up for the MTBE loss.
888851
i dont think it changes much as you increase the amount of ethanol in water
373496
Whole Foods Market (WFMI)  Had a big pullback recently\nWild Oats (OATS)\nUnited Natural Foods (UNFI) Distributor to places like WFMI and OATS.  Hard to go wrong with that as long as people eat more "natural" and organic food.\nHain Celestial (HAIN) The only organic food mfg. I know to trade.  Would love to hear about others.\n\nYou are smart to get on this megatrend, and there's plenty of time and easy money left for it if you stick around (have you ever heard anybody say there's still easy money in any stock market or sector????).  Anxiety about our poisoned environment will only increase, and Americans with money can only do one thing about it--insulate themselves as best they can with water purifiers and safer food and such.  With the Bush administration attacking environmental protections every day, "natural" and organic foods are getting free advertising worth billions.  The only down side is these stocks are not recession resistant like agribusiness food stocks.  If things get bad, people will go back to ingesting dangerous chemicals to save money.\n\nAnother related megatrend that head-in-the-sand Republicans are missing out on is the earth's population is systematically destroying its supply of usable fresh water.  The companies that can purify, move, desalinate, or control potable water are going to profit massively from endless demand for shrinking supply.
495133
get the book "forget the gas pumps - make your own fuel" by jim wortham and barbara whitener. it explains very simply how to make ethanol from corn, but i believe the process would be the same.
728953
It would cost you more in gas to return a 59 cent can of corn.\nGive it to a food pantry if you won't use it
665219
It was time 2 years ago. However, the stock has a great chart so I do not expect that if you put in a stop loss that you will be hurt too badly if it suddently tops out. \n\nThere is a great deal of speculation in the stock because of ethanol. Considering that it takes more energy to make ethanol than can be gotten out of ethanol, I think everone has gone crazy.
1109976
ethanol will decrease the amount of CO2 is being put into the atmosphere. It won't actually removed existing CO2, just reuse the current CO2. Plants use the CO2 in the air and water in the ground to produce hydocarbons. Ethanol simply takes the hydocarbons from the plant puts in back into the air. \n\nIf we switch some day to biofuel it would be possible to reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by dumping large amounts of plant material back underground. That is a long long way away.  \n\nThis is from a bias prospective that I agree with the majority of scientists that say ethanol uses less energy to produce than energy that is produced in the fuel. Others have the opposite opinion because they believe two discredited scientists rather than the scientific community on the topic. Those two scientists are paid by oil companies to produce studies. Their studies are promoted by the oil industry that is hostile to ethanol.
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Market it to intellectuals. Some student at my school (chemists, I think) proposed that we use the excess grease from the dining halls to be converted to ethanol on campus in a lab they built and now all of the facilities vehicles are running partially on ethanol (I think it's a mix of ethanol and gasoline, but I could be wrong). \n\nThe layperson isn't going to be interested in ethanol until it becomes mainstream. The best bet is to start getting Universities and Hosiptals to run their vehicles (ambulances, security vehicles, construction vehicles). \n\nAlso, it would be sweet if the government supported ethanol usage by providing tax incentives for these companies (like you get if you buy a hybrid car). It's really very frustrating because ethanol production is so inexpensive. I feel your pain.
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Ethanol is not the long term answer,  It actually takes more energy to produce ethanol that what is gotten from it.  Also a higher percentage of mix, say 50%, would require a major change in car design as ethanol does deteriorate the rubber parts of your engine.  If you are using ethanol now in your car you should have things like gaskets, pcv valve, fuel injectors, and the like checked very often.
503007
Of course the main issue is and always will be competition. But as a product standpoint it would have to be rising manufacturing, shipping, and product costs due to the increase in energy prices.  Oil is used in more than just vehicles; it's used in many products or the manufacturing of them.  We have already seen the increase of "Oil" not only in our fuels but in consumer price index that rose last week.  It's a trend that will not fall until alternative energy sources are more widely embraced by the market.
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Interesting...many studies have been conducted regarding Ethanol.  Keep in mind that ethanol is produced from corn.  If every single farm in America grew corn we'd be able to replace about 8% of our oil imports...not really enough to make a significant impact.  Also keep in mind that if for any reason the crop of corn was destroyed, be that storm or drout, we would have no product to convert into ethanol and no fuel.  Before you read on please keep in mind that I'm a registered independent...Under the Bush administration quite a bit of effort was put into the creation of a new agency within the DOE (Department of Energy) called the Energy Efficiency and Renewables Dept....within that department the Hydrogen Infrastructure and Technologies Program was established.  Why Hydrogen?  Because it can't be politicized, don't have to worry about drouts or damaged crops and hydrogen comprises 80+% of the mass in our universe (not something we're likely to run out of anytime soon).  http://www.hydrogen.energy.gov/   According to the "Posture Plan" our economy will be carbon free by 2060 with hydrogen as the likely successor.  Also check out Canada's FCC (Fuel Cell Canada) for their plan to globally commercialize fuel cells.\n\nOur current president has done great things when it come to decreasing our dependence on foreign oil.  Just gotta know where to look.  Try this        http://thomas.loc.gov/      and under "search bill text" type the word hydrogen and you'll see every piece of legislation dealing with hydrogen as an alternative fuel.
835750
Subsidies for not growing grain on all of their acreage that go to agribusiness companies like Archer Daniels Midland. Tax dollars go to them that came out of your pocket. The price you pay for things like bread and cereal that are made from grain stay high because there is less grain available and less competition in the market to lower prices.
536215
Depends on the technology used for conversion and how efficient the operation is managed.  However, in general 2.65 to 2.72 gallons of ethanol can be expected from each bushel of #2 yellow corn.  Other feedstocks have other conversion ratios