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Definately not good.

Here is an article that says they are going to try and lower a dome over the top of the wellhead to try and contain some of the oil- but it will take A MONTH before they are ready to try that-

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100427/ap_on_bi_ge/us_louisiana_oil_rig_explosion


Ugly.

Drift is now headed east- towards Alabama, and Florida sands.


Folks- if you want Florida beaches- better go now- before they are all fouled by miles and miles of oil.

(What effect do you think that would have on the race to drill off Florida?)
 
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WATCH OUT FOR THAT OIL SLICK!!:eek:
 
If the oil spill continues, nature will take its course and fish such as tuna and shrimp will instinctually migrate away from polluted waters, Voisin said.
The Coast Guard has said the spill occupies an area approximately 42 miles by 80 miles, and is roughly 40 miles offshore.
Oysters, which Voisin now harvests at his company in Houma, Louisiana, are most at risk because they can't move on their own and oil can get trapped in their gills.
But their shells protect their innards, said experts, who stressed that an oyster with an oily sheen isn't necessarily unviable.
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Ah, yah. Right.

Like I'm going to eat oysters out of that oil slick.....

I don't think so.


Chalk up a very, very, very large environmental disaster about to make itself very well known.

It will be weeks, if not months, before they can shut off the flow of oil from this one platform.

The oil slick is ALREADY 42 MILES by 80 MILES large. And will continue to contaminate everything.

I see very, very bad things ahead for the Gulf of Mexico.

Shrimp- gone.

Oysters- gone.

Fish- gone.

Beaches- from Texas to Florida, will become very badly fouled for years.

Yuk.



That's why we need to STOP drilling in the Gulf.

And move to renewable fuels. Period.
 
Here is what an 18,000 gallon oil spill did just three weeks ago at the mouth of the Mississippi river- it contaminated 160 square miles - including wildlife habitat, and 120 square miles of ocean.

that's just 18,000 gallons of oil.


http://www.wwl.com/Photos--Oil-spill-across-1-5th-of-remote-wildlife-/6751755


This new platform and oilwell spill put an estimated 700,000 gallons of fuel oil in the water, and the well head is spewing a reported 42,000 gallons a DAY.


Double yuk.
 
Good info James, makes me hungry though. Last week while buying groceries I notices that an ear of fresh corn was $1.10, I passed that one up.:)
 
Brazil happens to have the climate, and already cleared land (thanks to ranching ironically) to grow sugar cane.
Corn isn't really that efficient for ethanol, given that you use the same part of the plant that you eat.
Algae holds some promise.
Personally prefer methane from waste plants myself.
 
James48843 said:
An ear of corn for $1.10? I don't think so.
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Do you really think I would lie to you Jim?

By Susan Salisbury
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Updated: 6:22 p.m. Monday, March 8, 2010
Posted: 10:59 a.m. Friday, March 5, 2010

BELLE GLADE — Non-stop cold temperatures in the nation's winter vegetable capital have chilled consumers' wallets. Tight supplies and delayed harvesting have brought higher prices. Sweet corn is going for $1 an ear at supermarkets this week, and green beans hit $2.99 a pound.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/money/food-fright-cold-in-florida-fields-translates-to-321281.html

BARBECUE SEASON
Prepare to get burned by high price of meat

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 2:53 AM

By Whitney McFerron

Bloomberg News

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THE HOT ISSUE

CHICAGO - U.S. meat prices might rise to record levels this summer after farmers reduced hog and cattle herds to the smallest sizes in decades, the result of surging feed costs linked to demands for more ethanol.
The cost of wholesale pork jumped as much as 25 percent this month to 91 cents a pound last week, the highest since August 2008, U.S. http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...0/04/27/meat-0427-art-gkh8b887-1.html?sid=101
 
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With meat prices rising, that backyard barbecue could cost you more​

By JOYCE SMITH​

The Kansas City Star​


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At McGonigle’s Market in south Kansas City, Clyde Sisco recently trimmed a tri-tip as he prepared a loin point roast. Mike McGonigle estimated that wholesale meat prices had jumped as much as 60 percent in recent weeks.
Grilling season, prices are rising for beef, pork and poultry.​


 
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James48843 said:
An ear of corn for $1.10? I don't think so.

First of all, ethanol is made from field corn, not sweet corn. The only thing ethanol uses is the starch, the rest gets converted into feedstock for animal feed.(DDG).

Today, we grow more corn than ever before- on the same amount of land (no land use issues), and grew a record 12 billion bushels last year.

Today- the market price for a bushel of corn is $3.47.






Here is the historic price information for a bushel of corn.​


Today it is $3.47.​


I would say that compared to the rise in the price of gasoline, the rise in price of corn has been modest, wouldn't you say?​
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I'd like to get a diesel car and try my hand at making biodiesel. What I'd really like to try is making biodiesel from algae oil. I've been reading up on that research and it is really promising as an alternative fuel. My problem is land. I don't have enough of a yard to set up a workable and self sufficient biodiesel manufacturing area.
 
nnuut said:
Do you really think I would lie to you Jim?

By Susan Salisbury
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Updated: 6:22 p.m. Monday, March 8, 2010
Posted: 10:59 a.m. Friday, March 5, 2010

BELLE GLADE — Non-stop cold temperatures in the nation's winter vegetable capital have chilled consumers' wallets. Tight supplies and delayed harvesting have brought higher prices. Sweet corn is going for $1 an ear at supermarkets this week, and green beans hit $2.99 a pound.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/money/food-fright-cold-in-florida-fields-translates-to-321281.html

BARBECUE SEASON
Prepare to get burned by high price of meat

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 2:53 AM

By Whitney McFerron

Bloomberg News

DISPATCH ILLUSTRATION/ISTOCKPHOTO.COM

THE HOT ISSUE

CHICAGO - U.S. meat prices might rise to record levels this summer after farmers reduced hog and cattle herds to the smallest sizes in decades, the result of surging feed costs linked to demands for more ethanol.
The cost of wholesale pork jumped as much as 25 percent this month to 91 cents a pound last week, the highest since August 2008, U.S. Department of Agriculture data show. Beef prices climbed 22 percent this year to $1.69 a pound on April 23, the most expensive since July 2008. Chicken's gain in March was the most in 20 months.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...0/04/27/meat-0427-art-gkh8b887-1.html?sid=101
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That steak looks yummy!:D
 
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James48843 said:
First of all, ethanol is made from field corn, not sweet corn. The only thing ethanol uses is the starch, the rest gets converted into feedstock for animal feed.(DDG).

Today, we grow more corn than ever before- on the same amount of land (no land use issues),
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Just so you realize..

Corn is a rotatable crop..which means that you cannot grow corn in the same field each year, year after year..the soil nutrients are leeched by the last year's corn crop and the new crop would suffer if not survive at all..Corn crops must be rotated with a crop that produces renewable nitrogen and other essential nutrients..such as Soybeans..this way you can alternate back to corn every other year..this makes more land needed for a sustainable Ethanoil producing crop year, consistant every year.
 
Corn produces ethanol.

Soybeans can produce biodiesel.

Yes, rotable crops. Last year's harvest of corn was 13.2 BILLION bushels.

Is 33% used for producing ethanol? Maybe. That 33% also produces record amounts of Dried Distiller's Grain, (DDG), which can be mixed in with feed corn for cattle, hogs, and poultry. The large corporate agriculture are the ones trying to tell you feed prices are up.

The fact is FEED PRICES ARE NOT UP. Ethanol production HAS NOT CAUSED HIGHER FEED PRICES. In fact, feed prices are DOWN compared to a year ago.

That's a fact!


From AGWIRED.com:
One-Sided Article Blames Ethanol for Meat Price Hike

3 Comments Posted by Cindy Zimmerman – April 26th, 2010


The ethanol industry was quick to respond to a Bloomberg Business Week article Monday that places the blame for the current hike in meat prices solely on using corn for ethanol.

The story quotes several meat industry representatives who state that current higher meat prices are “ethanol-induced” – the result of hog and cattle herds that were reduced in 2008 due because demand for more ethanol drove up the cost of feed.
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Fact: In April 2009, corn was $4.20 a bushel.
Today it was $3.47, or 17% LOWER in price than a year ago.
Yet ethanol production is significantly HIGHER this year.


Them's the facts.
 
I just hope the price of meat doesn't go so high that my son-in-law's successful bids on several BBQ catering jobs this next month doesn't leave them w/o a profit,or even worse, in the hole!! :worried: That is danged hard work, as far as I am concerned. I'd rather pack USDA bags at the food pantry. :D

And as to the Energy question - windmills are out of the running in my immediate area d/t the endangered big-eared bats...:blink:
..not feasible to have both - and the bats are already here, the windmills aren't !! :)
 
James48843 said:
Sunshine Grandma- Sunshine.....
You get lots of that in Arkansas...​
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Why, James, I do believe you are jealous! Yes, indeed! Jealous!:)

However, Arkansas is like most states - in that the terrain is different. And the varmits, too. Our best caves are closed d/t the bat White Nose Disease. Our mosquitoes aren't even in the running with Louisiana and Alaska. The yellow-billed woodpecker is still elusive...

Now, the energy folks here, seem to feel it is good to have a variety of energy sources, not just stick to one, ie: sunshine. I mean, after all, look at Iowa ! Acres of windmills standing free in the corn raising sun !!!

So it was a disappointment that the Ozarks windmills will most probably be only a source for certain homeowners, and then, maybe even just sporadically.

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