Comments on: Biofuel Driving up the Price of Gas? So What?

By: butterfly valve

butterfly valve — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:51:24 +0000

Good thing biofuel is commonly used in the market today. its earth friendly., its cheap., and it helps a lot of local farmers in earning a living.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:27:07 +0000

“Nothing is going to replace oil and natural gas as our primary fuel.”
So 1000 millennium from now we’ll still be using oil and gas? Wow thats brilliant.
I’d be willing to bet that in 50 to 100 years from now gas will no longer used, or only in comparatively tiny amounts.

By: Lilya

Lilya — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:35:03 +0000

Why it is so difficult to reduce our consumption of carbon based petroleum products. Take a look at this sad picture. This is how much it takes to fill up a tank. When the entire event happens between the hose at the gas station and our car’s tank, we just don’t see it.
http://www.HighwayGlider.com/tahoe.jpg

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:36:38 +0000

TO THE SO CALLED DR. WITH 50 YEARS EXPERIENCE. WE DO NOT HAVE A SHORTAGE OF FUEL. I WAS IN IRAQ IN 2007/2008 AND THE LOCALS WERE PAYINY .20-.25 CENTS A GALLON. WHERE DID YOU EARN YOUR DEGEREE?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:36:31 +0000

TO THE SO CALLED DR. WITH 50 YEARS EXPERIENCE. WE DO NOT HAVE A SHORTAGE OF FUEL. I WAS IN IRAQ IN 2007/2008 AND THE LOCALS WERE PAYINY .20-.25 CENTS A GALLON. WHERE DID YOU EARN YOUR DEGEREE?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:22:40 +0000

I am in college and work full time (aka: I am poor-ish) I drive a compact car… gets 32 miles to the gallon. However, I live in Florida. My boyfriend is in Virginia, my only best friend in North Carolina, my father 1.5 hours south of me, and my mother in California so I have to fly. No matter what car I drive right now, because everything is gasoline whether I like it or not, I will be punished for visiting family and friends while hippies gleefully leap about, rejoicing the the rise in gas prices. One of them being my best friend who still has her gas paid by her parents. Why do hippies love to add insult to injury?

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:25:46 +0000

High gas prices are just what we need to wake up to the reality of what we have created. Now is a good time to start looking at alternatives to oil, if we don’t, our children will have a bleak future when the oil runs out and we’ve made no provision for alternatives.
To Dr. C Laser I say: The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge. (quote by Daniel Boorstin)

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:25:10 +0000

“We do not hurt the environment” ? Dr Laser, are you smoking fumes? I think high gas prices are great – and so does the industry! Oil firms are making money like there’s no tomorrow so I’m a little baffled at why you’d say anything is “killing” your industry. Sure, we’ll be using oil for a long time, but phasing it out is in everyone’s best interests, except for a few small, myopic, folks with their heads in the (tar) sands.

By: Dr. Charles Laser

Dr. Charles Laser — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:45:46 +0000

I am an oil and gas wildcatter with some 50 years experience. Nothing is going to replace oil and natural gas as our primary fuel. Aside from transporation we make 4000 products from crude oil. Soon gasoline prices will go to $5.00 then up to $8.00 a gallon due to impending shortages. Get the extreme envirionmentalists off our back and we will find large new oil deposits and build new refineries. We do not hurt the enviornment and extremism is killing our oil industry and causing much higher prices. For example we are held up drilling in Wyoming over a Plover Bird for nine months waiting for a federal agent to see if they can find a next. In twenty years we have never found one, but we are held up from drilling. Dr. C. Laser

By: Jerry Fell

Jerry Fell — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:47:15 +0000

odograph – I do agree with you that biofuels (especially corn-ethanol) shouldn’t need to be subsidized in most cases. But then again, neither should gasoline (aka – the major purpose of US military activity over the last decade).. but I won’t digress.

By: Nathan Schock

Nathan Schock — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:41:23 +0000

Blaming biofuels for high gas prices is especially off base when you consider the time line. New refineries can take up to a decade to build. Since we just started talking about a 20 percent reduction in gasoline usage THIS YEAR, that talk could only impact refining capacity (and thus gas prices) years from now…not today.

By: odograph

odograph — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:23:41 +0000

It is a very inefficient way to drive up prices.
Better to do a carbon tax, and remove subsidies from biofuels.
That would allow individual drivers to choose between higher efficiency, driving less, etc., etc., … without at the same time paying through their general tax burden.
Remember, ethanol subsidies are a transfer from (broadly) income tax to the fuel system.