Agribizz experts claim that cellulosic ethanol, the never produced miracle to save fuel farming, needs $1.55 per gallon in subsidies to be profitable. I read someone figured they could get 5 gallons/bucks per bale of hay, for instance, turned into fuel. So if government adds another 8 bucks per bale it pays?
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/3/3/125745/7746#3
Relative cost of clean kwh
Cost of a gallon of ethanol's worth of miles, in a plugin hybrid powered by clean kwh? 75 cents.
Cost when charged from your own solar panels (after a few years payback period) 0 cents per gallon's worth of miles?
It is very difficult to understand why 10 cents per kwh or 60 cents per gallon (saved by the plugin hybrid and solar panels) shouldn't be provided to investors. With government tax incentives diverted from corporate welfare for oil, coal, agribizz fuel, and nuclear power.
Isn't it about time to get started on reducing GHG? The oil war costs over a dollar per gallon of gas and heating fuel we use. All borrowed money from china and Saudi Arabia.
Wouldn't it be better to pay our neighbor with a solar panel or wind farm for our transportation fuel and stop borrowing money so americans can kill and be killed for oil?
It's the economy... and the soul. And mother earth at stake.
