IT IS TREASON.........REID & PELOSI
In a letter to Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other key leaders, Alaska Republican Gov. Sarah Palin urges Congress to allow drilling for oil on the Outer Continental Shelf and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northern Alaska, an area she calls "the most promising unexplored petroleum province in North America.""What will it take for Congress to enact comprehensive energy policy?" Palin asks in the letter, dated yesterday. "In my opinion, the debate about energy policy is no longer theoretical and abstract. Our failure to enact an energy policy is having real consequences for every American in their daily lives and has begun to affect America's place in the world."
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To quote another blogger in support of Palin as VP: "America needs someone of Gov. Palin's intellect and political fortitude in Washington, guiding Pres. McCain's new energy policy to fruition."
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ReplyDeleteIn USA 200 billion gallons of gasoline and disel is consumed every year
1 gallon of gasoline/diseal is sold retail for $5.
Methanol on the other hand can be easily, cheaply AND domestically produced from :
trash, waste, biomass, crop residues, coal and natural gas!!!!
And methanol is dirt cheap.
Even now when USA capacity to produce methanol is under 1% of total transportation needs of this country, it is under $ 4 a gallon retail.
The cost to LOCALLY produce and distribute methanol is under $1 a gallon.
In order to substitute the above 200 billion gallons of gasoline and disel of USA annual consumption with METHANOL-
USA would need around 500 billion gallons of methanol for a year of consumption.
Methanol could be produced from any biomass, waste or trash. One big standard Methanol PLANT produces : 1 million metric tons/year = 250 million gallons/year
Currently USA produces around 2 billions gallons of methanol/ year. Another 498 billion gallons are needed in order to COMPLETELY switch from oil-gasoline-diesel to methanol.
We need to built 2000 big methanol plants. Or much more smaller, locally distributed methanol production facilities.
Lets assume that cost to build ONE big methanol plant is around $100 million, if done without stealing of course. It may be even less, if we plan to build 2000 such plants. So, in order to switch our total transportation needs to methanol we will have to invest, as a nation: $200 billion dollars.
Thats it. Simple as that. Well, some pennies for retroactive re-equipment of motors as well, for around$100 a motor.)))) Bush's Tax rebate checks should cover it in abundance.
Each year we pay to foreign countries $500 billion for oil.
ANY QUESTIONS? ASK PRESIDENT BUSH AND JOHN MCCAIN!!
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1 million metric tons a year is 250 million gallons
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http://www.kommersant.com/p521975/r_1/A_Run_on_Chemicals/
In March 2004, the German Lurgi and the Iranian Petroleum Development Co. signed an agreement on the construction of methanol plant in Iran for €160 million. The construction of a third and fourth methanol plant will bring their output to 3.4 million tons per year, and Iran's share of the world market will grow from 1.49 to 6.35 percent. The construction of the second plant will make Iran the world's largest methanol producer.
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http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/methanol/index.html
Methanol Holdings (Trinidad) Limited (MHTL) announced that its M5000 methanol plant achieved first methanol production on September 23, 2005 and expected to achieve full production of 5400 tons per day, making it the largest methanol plant in the world, during the first week of October. The total production capacity of MHTL's four plants is now about 4 million metric tons per annum (11,000 tons per day).
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http://www.the-innovation-group.com/ChemProfiles/Methanol.htm
Methanol PRODUCER CAPACITY*
Air Products, Pensacola, Fla.
60
Beaumont Methanol, Beaumont, Tex.
280
Celanese, Bishop, Tex.
175
Clear Lake Methanol, Clear Lake, Tex.
200
Coastal Chem, Cheyenne, Wyo.
25
Eastman Chemical, Kingsport, Tenn.
70
Lyondell, Channelview, Tex.
250
Millennium Petrochemicals, LaPorte, Tex.
210
Motiva Enterprises, Delaware City, Del.
100
Total U.S.
1,370
Celanese Canada, Edmonton, Alberta
255
Methanex, Kitimat, B.C.
170
Total Canada
425
Total U.S. and Canada
1,795
*Millions of gallons per year
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http://genomicsgtl.energy.gov/biofuels/transportation.shtml