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Forest Chief Touts Ethanol To Power Cars
By Mr Ethanol | September 8, 2007
The Associated Press:
The U.S. Forest Service chief is proposing replacing 15 percent of the nation’s gasoline with ethanol made from wood, while doubling the amount of carbon dioxide emissions absorbed by public and private forests.
“These are ambitious goals, and they would take a concerted national effort to reach,” Forest Service Chief Abigail Kimbell said in remarks prepared for a speech before the Society of Environmental Journalists Friday night in San Francisco.
They also appear contradictory. But such a plan is consistent with President Bush’s goal cutting gasoline use by 20% while expanding reliance on ethanol, which is a central part of his energy policy. He has sent Congress a proposal mandating the use of 35 billion gallons a year of “alternative” fuels, mostly ethanol, by 2017.
Kimbell said that “with the technologies now becoming available, we could replace as much as 15% of our current gasoline consumption with ethanol from wood — and not just any wood, but wood that is not now being used for other purposes.”
In 2006, motorists used 143 billion gallons of gasoline, 136 billion gallons of which was produced by U.S. refineries.
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September 8th, 2007 at 11:23 am
Am I reading this right - we’ll be doubling the amount of CO2 while reducing the availability of timber used for existing products? Who’s the nimrod who came up with this plan?
Isn’t there a better way? Such as using switch grass, dead or dying trees, slag left over from houses and commercial construction, etc.
But there is hope, if government will only incorporate a new technology - what am I talking about?
“An Austin-based startup called EEStor promised “technologies for replacement of electrochemical batteries,” meaning a motorist could plug in a car for five minutes and drive 500 miles roundtrip between Dallas and Houston without gasoline.”
Read the whole story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070904/ap_on_hi_te/no_more_batteries