[GBlist] re: Biomass-derived ethanol

[Ovid Curmdgeonsen Metamorphoses II <_meta_4@excite.ca>]

> Congressional unity may begin to fray at the subject's mention, but >the 
coming U.S. war against terrorism clearly strengthens President >Bush's 
argument for oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic >National Wildlife
Refuge. 
[snip]

I know that it may seem insensitive of me to say this right now but the
above has to be one of the most lame excuses yet, for justifying the
destruction of the ANWR.

There is a company here in Ottawa  (Iogen Corp.) that has developed a
process whereby ethanol is obtained from straw (wheat, oats and barley in
this neighbourhood, probably rice too if we could grow rice here)... and as
everyone knows, straw is a renewable resource in plentiful supply, being a
waste product from cereal grain production... a waste which poses a disposal
problem in that the current method of "disposal" consists of burning it.   

And the combustion of ethanol is 80% cleaner (Iogen's numbers) than
petroleum-derived fuel. 

Iogen is willing to clone its plants/technology to anywhere the raw
materials and demand exist. 

How likely is that to happen given the powerful oil lobby that exists in the
US and the fact that Bush is an oilman ?

Let's just say that if I were a caribou in the ANWR, I don't
think that I'd be planning on a quiet, peaceful life in the 'hood in the
days to come.
--
Elvis

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