Mountain Dew Will Soon Propel You!

RAM · Post by **RAM** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:02 pm

Times have changed! For many years here in Tennessee ethanol production (aka "Moonshine") was an important, albeit illegal, industry providing many employment opportunities for G-men (revenuers) as well as for innumerable Tennessee hillbillies who weren't paying taxes on their product.
Now the government is encouraging folks to get into ethanol production and giving them a big tax incentive! Is this great country or what?

Bad (never touch the stuff, but I have heard it will propel you) Bob

Post by **john elder** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:33 pm

So let's solve a couple problems at once...Let's decide on the best plant for generation of alcohol, then recruit all the pot growers all over the US and give them plants and $ incentive enough that it will make economic sense to switch crops...they get legal..they get tax bennies...they make a living...and lots of crap gets taken off the street. Seems improbable that they will get to shoot at revenuers and the latter can start making some of their kids' T ball games!

Reel Geezer · Post by **Reel Geezer** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:50 pm

If you paid them the same amount they make per pot plant our auto fuel would cost $25.00 per gallon.

Post by **john elder** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:14 pm

yeah, you're right...problem is that demand wouldn't drop and the smaller crop would just raise the price of a lid further...just keeps chasing it up...maybe the growers aren't the problem

Ron Mc · Post by **Ron Mc** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:41 am

supply side economics - how about that - John is a Reagan republican after all

RAM · Post by **RAM** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 10:11 am

Interesting economics this ethanol thing. Until we get wider use of state-of- the-art production techniques and stop using corn, it takes more energy to make ethanol than you get by using it (lots of elements to this aspect). Aside from that, add to the production cost the tax incentive (paid by ethanol users and non-users alike), then be sure to add the following (a result of the doubling of corn prices in one year-from $2/bu to $4/bu): The higher cost of beef and diary products (pizza price has risen due to increase in cost of cheese) and a host of other products dependent indirectly on corn production.
Bad Bob

Don Champion · Post by **Don Champion** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:29 pm

I recently read an article about which plants took the least amount of energy to produce and process to get ethanol. Corn was the least efficient followed by soy beans. Somewhere in the middel were prarie grasses and weeds. The most efficient? Algae! Just immagine your favorite fishing hole clogged with this green STUFF. It's enough to make me barf. The latest way down here to cut fuel cost is to modify a diesel engine and burn filtered waste oil from deep fryers in resturants. It's easy to spot these on the highway. They smell like french fries or fried fish. But I guess the cost is only a few cents a gallon and for a cost like that people will put up with the smell.

I wonder if Al Gore would use the stuff in his car?

Post by **john elder** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 8:28 pm

Hey, Ron! I found your ebay bio!

http://myworld.ebay.com/clintonhater/