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Posted: Mon Jul 24th, 2006 11:38 am

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/walker/walker23.html

Ethanol Eco-Disaster

by Bill Walker

Let’s take the very rosiest assumptions for corn ethanol, from the paid PR flacks who lobby for the subsidy. They claim that it takes 35,000 BTUs of energy to make 77,000 BTUs of ethanol from corn. No one else gets a ratio anywhere near that good; some calculations show that corn ethanol actually costs energy to make (and fuel ethanol only has 76,100 BTU per gallon according to the EPA). But even this most unrealistic case assumes that about half the energy in a gallon of subsidized ethanol has to come from somewhere else. For comparison, it takes around 22,000 BTU to make a gallon of gasoline. Gasoline contains about 114,000 BTU per gallon, so there’s a clear energy profit.

Costs are costs.

http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

It will cost me something to read the rest of Bill Walker's article. It will cost me something to send him a challenge via e-mail. The calculation of costs are important:

Here are some corporate cost calculations:

http://www.gaspricewatch.com/new/

Actually that link is Price. The cost is another calculation. Or is it?

More costs:

http://www.marchforjustice.com/shock&awe.php

The "Shock and Awe" Gallery

This is agreeable to me:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7260.htm

It's the Corporate State, Stupid

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.

David G. Mills

Am I being harsh? Am I preying upon sympathy?

The political protection of Nazi Facism was a job placed in the charge of the SS.

The economic protection of Nazi Facism was a job taken by a few large multi-national corporations like I.G. Farben/Standard Oil of New Jersey.

Standard oil of New Jersey sent money to I.G. Farben and I.G. Farben agreed to give up the 'rights' to produce synthetic oil (except in Germany). It seems that synthetic oil did compete against natural oil on a cost basis.

Here is how the SS compared to the corporate sympathies:

“Conditions were such that sickness was a pervasive fact of life among the inhabitants of Monowitz. The hospital wards built by I.G. were so inadequate that even the S.S. suggested additional wards be built. I.G. refused because of the cost.”

The above quote was taken from:

The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben b Joseph Borkin.

I could quote a whole lot more. I'm the cut and paster. I'm the stupid one.

Like this:

http://austrianforum.com/index.php?showtopic=1051

I went to that place above to discuss things openly in a free market of information.

My stupidity was sent here:

http://austrianforum.com/index.php?showtopic=1057

I'm soooooo Stupid as to think that I'm being censored.

Like this:

http://austrianforum.com/index.php?showtopic=1069

In that thread I've posted two posts. Only one exists. I then found out that my username was invalid. My son registered and posted from his computer and his post has 'disappeared'.

More on (MORON) economics:

“The construction of I.G. Auschwitz has assured I.G. a unique place in business history. By adopting the theory and practice of Nazi morality, it was able to depart from the conventional economics of slavery in which slaves are traditionally treated as capital equipment to be maintained and serviced for optimum use and depreciated over a normal life span. Instead, I.G. reduced slave labor to a consumable raw material, a human ore from which the mineral of life was systematically extracted. When no usable energy remained, the living dross was shipped to the gassing chambers and cremation furnaces of the extermination center at Birkenau, where the S.S. recycled it into the German war economy – gold teeth for the Reichsbank, hair for mattresses, and fat for soap. Even the moans of the doomed became a work incentive, exhorting the remaining inmates to greater effort.”

The above is also taken from The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben.

Here is some good news:

http://hytechapps.com/

Used as an additive to any standard fuel, Aquygen™ increases BTUs while decreasing emissions, dramatically improving the efficiency and cleanliness of transportation and power generation within the existing fueling and energy infrastructure.

The above can be taken seriously or swept under the rug like Standard Oil did with the synthetic 'hydrogenization' process that fueled the German Military.

As a side note (no links for references):

A military man named Erich Hartmann went to see the Political leader once. The military man had a side arm in a holster. The idea was to get a medal or give a medal depending upon your perspective. The rule was: "No one can see the military leader armed."

Erich Hartmann, the soldier, refused to give up his pistol. The political leader, being one of those kinds that don’t follow the rules himself, allowed the soldier to enter; weapon and all. He had nothing to fear from the soldier who didn't follow orders very well. The soldier was perfectly able to judge the cost of not following orders; all on his own.

The moral of the story?

The Corporation is on top.

The soldier is on the bottom.

In an upside down world

Someone is using the wrong formula. It may be me. Time to finish the article and send the challenge; or not. I'm the stupid one.

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