Biodiesel Energy Alternatives In Trouble

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Biodiesel Energy Alternatives In Trouble

By: GARKO

At this point, serious Environmentalists still promoting biofuels are in a tight corner.

Global grain stocks are at lowest ever quantities and prices statospheric. The consequence of that is high incentives to wipe out forest land to plant crops – which is starting to wipe out precious South American and Southeast Asian rainforest areas which sustain indigenous peoples and which hold reserves of immense quanitities of carbon. These lands are also concentrated centers of biodiversity. Tearing them down in order to grow crops for car fuel is a heinous crime.
Anyone who wants to argue that such efforts amount to "economic development in the Third World" will have to explain a stark fact: transnational agribusiness interests, Cargill and Archer Daniels Midlant, to name names, , coopt the greatest concentration of profits for Brazilian soy and Asian palm. They have horrible track records as regards social and environmental impact.
That's why it's severly depressing to see what's become of the U.S. biodiesel industry.
Biodistillers nationwide now realize that their industry's survival depends on the unpredictability of world trade. I mean by that, cheaper soy and palm oil from foreign countries increasingly replace domestically grown soy oil. Environmentally conscious Europe takes most of the U.S.-produced fuel.
So here is how it works. To produce this "homegrown renewable fuel," we've resorted to procuring the feedstock from environmentally vulnerable areas and sending the fuel to Europe. What's more, the U.S. taxpayer is underwriting the whole thing: biodiesel producers get a full dollar excise tax credit for every gallon of alternative fuel that is produced with regular diesel -- even when it gets sold to foreign countries.
If one does the math then they see that the numbers around use of biodiesel for American car owners have fallen through the safety net, even accounting for the $1/gallon subsidy:
It takes 7.7 pounds of soy oil to produce a single gallon of biodiesel that costs almost $4.50. Consider overhead and other processing costs (roughly 70 cents per gallon), federal and state taxes (54 cents), and subtract the dollar tax credit, and a the price per gallon at the pump for biodiesel could sell for $4.58 at the pump. Last week the average cost for the consumer for a gallon of regular diesel was $3.86.
So how can these companies profitably sell the stuff to Europe? For that, thank the ever-sinking dollar. Adjusted for the abysmal dollar/euro exchange rate, U.S. producers are suddenly competitive with their European rivals.
Biodiesel will continue to flourish on overseas markets as long as the dollar remains essentially valueless.
The question becomes this: where is this leading us, environmentally?

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Entrepreneur, songwriter, activist and consumer advocate, GARKO, has found that adding water to the gasoline in your car just dilutes your gasoline :). But he can show you one of the best alternative ways to save on gas which is to power your car using water for gas For a list of current gasoline prices in your neighborhood email garko@startlingdiscoveries.info

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