[Greenbuilding] bio fues and ethanol

[RONALD CASCIO]

Agreed. Our vehicular transportation fuel for the last 6 years has been 
biodiesel. We burn about 600 gallons/year since we've moved to a small town 
were we can walk/bike to just about everything we need. Our biodiesel life 
cycle goes like this;

    Farmers within a 120 mile radius capture solar energy with their soybean 
crop, which goes to the Purdue Farms bean crusher 15 miles west of here 
where they harvest the meal of the bean for chicken         feed, then the 
byproduct oil heads 15 miles east where it is processed into biodiesel in 
our town's production facility 1.8 miles from our front door.

Someone kindly explain to me how our use of biodiesel is more destructive 
than the way our civilization has co-opted the hundreds of millions of years 
life cycle of petroleum, it's extraction, shipping, refining, burning and 
it's release of hydrocarbons into the atmosphere... and all the blood 
involved in one way or another.

Sure, biofuels are not a panacea to our transportation fuel dilemma but it 
is a major step in the right direction of the long and hard path we are 
going to have to embark on. The madness of mankind's deadly addiction to the 
Devil's Tea is not an option in my book.

BTW... Dan and Tim Keating, what fuels your cars?


Ron Cascio
Chestnut Creek
Design/Build/Consult/Develop
Maryland's Eastern Shore



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve T" <progressivepenguin at gmail.com>
To: <greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] bio fues and ethanol


>I agree that some can see only black or white when it comes to Green or
> Sustainable technology like biofuel, wind power or home building.  It 
> tends
> to make discussions a little more animated.
>
> On 4/8/07, Tim Martens <timandgwen at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Guys.......no one claimed that biofuels were a panacea. I submit though,
>> that, they are way better than  fossil fuels on so many levels. Your
>> submissions make people think that bio fuels are bad. If people are 
>> willing
>> to pay for a commodity, others will do what ever it takes to provide
>> it.  You don't think that fossil fuel exploration and greenhouse gases 
>> might
>> have displaced or killed a few people?
>>
>> With bio fuels, it's not the product but how it's being produced that is
>> causing the problem.  Fossil fuels, on the other hand, are just plain 
>> bad.
>> At least we are going in the right direction.
>>
>> A motorized vehicle-less society....now there's an answer.
>>
>> Tim Martens
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