[Gasification] DOE's demonstration gasification project history

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Greg

A subsidy is absorption of part of the true cost of a product by a 
Government.There are "Direct Subsidies" such as the $.50 per gallon of 
bio-ethanol for admixture with, or as a substitute for gasoline. Then 
there are hidden subsidies, such as the cost of the US Military, to 
ensure that oil is available to the US.

If the cost of the US Military that was primarily directed at securing 
oil supplies were factored in, US Oil Imports should be charged off at 
something in the range of $200 per bbl. This would mean $6 to $7 gallon 
gasoline.

Best wishes,

Kevin

Greg and April wrote:
> Define subsidy and tell me the purpose of gasification.
>
>
> Many people will say that the price of gasoline in the US is so low, because 
> the government subsidizes it - OTOH, look at how it's taxed and you will 
> actually see that the gasoline in the US, is just not taxed as heavy as it 
> is in other parts of the world.
>
> Is not taxing something as heavy as they could, considered a subsidy? 
> Does taxing ( at a higher rate ) a better alternative, a different form of 
> subsidy?
>
>
> Why gasify?    Is it because it actually gives a tangible return, or is it 
> because it gives an intangible return?
>
> If someone has a excess of biomass, then perhaps that is a way to make use 
> of it, but, if it's going to take the entire lifetime of the reactor to see 
> a return, I have to ask if it is worth the cost of materials, effort, and 
> maintance.
>
>
> Greg H.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom Miles" <tmiles at trmiles.com>
> To: "'Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification'" 
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> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 9:13
> Subject: Re: [Gasification] DOE's demonstration gasification project history
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>   
>>> All of these have at least one thing in common, they were too expensive 
>>> to
>>>       
>> operate without subsidy.
>>
>> Is gasification at any scale "too expensive to operate without subsidy"?
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>> Tom Miles
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