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Re: ethanol

by "Bill Bonde ( 'the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attac Apr 19, 2008 at 03:07 PM

huey.callison@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> 
> Charles Bishop <ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > "Bill Bonde  <tributyltinpaint@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > >Charles Bishop wrote:
> > >> "Bill Bonde  <tributyltinpaint@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > >> >Now if you want to argue that it isn't worth it to bother with
> > >> >used oil, make that argument. There are companies that are doing
> > >> >this or will be trying to do this on a commercial scale, at least
> > >> >to make a profit. The limit is obviously how much oil is
> > >> >available. Since I don't have those numbers memorized, I'd have to
> > >> >look them up.
> > >> What are the numbers?
> > >Usually '0' through '9' but sometimes also 'A' through 'F'. It tends
> > >to depend on whether all your base are belong to us.
> > I'm sorry to have been unlcear. You mentioned there were numbers that
> > let us know how much oil was available and how this related to profit.
> > You said you didn't have the numbers but would cheerfully get them if
> > someone asked.
> > So, I was asking. What are the numbers involved?
> 
> Why ask him? He's not going to cheerfully get anything no matter who
> asks.
> 
I didn't claim to be cheerfully looking for the cite.


> According to http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohim/hs05/htm/mv1.htm
> there's around 250 million vehicles in the US. If you figure each one is
> going to need four oil changes a year, that's 32 million barrels of
> waste oil, which is presumably much higher quality than garden-variety
> light sweet crude.
> 
> ...but that's about a day and a half of the US oil consumption. And
> you've got the same overhead you have with any other crude oil - you
> have to ****p it and refine it 
>
Actually, it's the additives in the oil that break down, and there
are toxins because it has been heated. But it's not crude oil
again.


> - plus the fact that you have to collect
> it, one gallon at a time, from all over the damn place. It's a whole lot
> easier to take a couple million barrels out of one spot in the ground
> than it is to collect it a gallon at a time from 3 million different
> people every day. So you're probably not making a huge pile of money on
> waste oil unless 1) you're heating with it, or 2) you take advantage of
> economies of scale, like using the same Jiffy Lube delivery trucks that
> drop off the new oil at the franchises to pick up the waste oil.
> 
We were actually talking about waste fry oil, not waste motor oil,
but plainly collecting the waste oil is occurring. So why not the
waste fry oil?




-- 
"Question, two men starving to death decide to eat their hair like
spaghetti. Is that funny?"
"Hmmm, well, it depends on if by funny you want to make people
laugh."
-+Eddie Izzard and Joanna Lumley, "The Cat's Meow"
 




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xhoster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-04-10 05:36:16 
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Veronique <veroniqueun  2008-04-09 22:55:35 
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Opus the Penguin <opus  2008-04-10 14:38:18 
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xhoster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-04-10 14:56:18 
e-85, was: ethanol
danny burstein <dannyb  2008-04-10 17:04:44 
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xhoster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-04-10 17:15:24 
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nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-04-10 19:54:24 
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danny burstein <dannyb  2008-04-10 20:10:12 
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nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-04-11 05:41:03 
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xhoster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-04-10 20:50:54 
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"Bill Bonde ( 'the o  2008-04-14 17:59:39 
Re: e-85, was: ethanol
Snidely <Snidely.too@[  2008-04-10 11:17:05 
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"Bill Bonde ( 'the o  2008-04-14 17:58:37 
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ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-14 14:39:12 
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Bob Ward <bobward@[EMA  2008-04-15 15:39:28 
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Bob Ward <bobward@[EMA  2008-04-15 16:02:47 
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ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-15 16:26:57 
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Bob Ward <bobward@[EMA  2008-04-15 17:12:45 
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"Bill Bonde ( 'the o  2008-04-16 01:30:18 
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ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-15 21:41:57 
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Bob Ward <bobward@[EMA  2008-04-14 18:42:42 
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Bob Ward <bobward@[EMA  2008-04-14 20:59:10 
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ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-15 07:40:09 
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Bob Ward <bobward@[EMA  2008-04-15 15:00:20 
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Greg Goss <gossg@[EMAI  2008-04-19 20:19:38 
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nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-04-20 18:02:17 
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Bob Ward <bobward@[EMA  2008-04-20 20:15:50 
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"Reunite Gondwanalan  2008-04-21 17:45:31 
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Bob Ward <bobward@[EMA  2008-04-21 18:00:11 
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nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-04-22 01:39:31 
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Bob Ward <bobward@[EMA  2008-04-21 20:02:29 
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raven@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-04-23 22:38:36 
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msb@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (M  2008-04-23 18:55:32 
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Snidely <Snidely.too@[  2008-04-23 17:29:07 
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"Bill Bonde ( 'the o  2008-04-15 14:10:06 
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ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-15 11:19:08 
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"Bill Bonde ( 'the o  2008-04-15 18:39:52 
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Bob Ward <bobward@[EMA  2008-04-15 14:58:45 
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"Bill Bonde ( 'the o  2008-04-15 20:31:05 
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Bob Ward <bobward@[EMA  2008-04-15 15:44:06 
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"Bill Bonde ( 'the o  2008-04-15 20:57:20 
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Bob Ward <bobward@[EMA  2008-04-15 16:08:54 
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"Bill Bonde ( 'the o  2008-04-16 01:05:12 
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Bob Ward <bobward@[EMA  2008-04-15 20:15:01 
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"Bill Bonde ( 'the o  2008-04-16 01:37:31 
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ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-15 21:42:50 
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"Bill Bonde ( 'the o  2008-04-16 21:37:46 
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ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-18 20:01:46 
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huey.callison@[EMAIL PROT  2008-04-18 22:47:41 
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ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-18 22:33:05 
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"Bill Bonde ( 'the o  2008-04-19 15:07:08 
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ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-19 12:39:48 
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nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-04-20 17:54:53 
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ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-20 15:56:16 
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Bob Ward <bobward@[EMA  2008-04-19 15:07:00 
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"Bill Bonde ( 'the o  2008-04-19 23:39:19 
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"Bill Bonde ( 'the o  2008-04-20 14:19:41 
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ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-20 10:15:53 
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Bob Ward <bobward@[EMA  2008-04-20 20:13:13 
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ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-15 21:40:02 
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"Bill Bonde ( 'the o  2008-04-18 13:17:27 
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ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-18 20:06:15 
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Nasti J <njgillmom@[EM  2008-04-20 11:20:28 
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ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-20 16:01:29 
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Jerry Bauer <usenet@[E  2008-04-20 16:55:02 
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"Bill Bonde ( 'the o  2008-04-20 22:30:49 
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groo <afcagroo@[EMAIL   2008-04-21 00:29:44 
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ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-22 17:41:39 
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Bill Turlock <"Bi  2008-04-20 20:30:57 
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"Bill Bonde ( 'the o  2008-04-20 16:50:56 
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nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-04-20 20:33:50 
propane, was: ethanol
danny burstein <dannyb  2008-04-20 20:37:44 
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nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-04-20 20:42:56 
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ebenZEROONE@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-04-20 22:08:02 
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danny burstein <dannyb  2008-04-20 22:40:56 
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"Bill Bonde ( 'the o  2008-04-20 22:48:01 
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ebenZEROONE@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-04-21 03:08:03 
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Greg Goss <gossg@[EMAI  2008-04-20 23:29:24 
Re: propane, was: ethanol
"Bill Bonde ( 'the o  2008-04-20 20:19:27 
Re: propane, was: ethanol
Jim Shaffer <jmshaffer  2008-04-20 18:34:46 
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"Bill Bonde ( 'the o  2008-04-20 20:18:19 
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Bob Ward <bobward@[EMA  2008-04-20 20:21:05 
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danny burstein <dannyb  2008-04-21 03:42:38 
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ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-20 23:11:19 
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Greg Goss <gossg@[EMAI  2008-04-21 14:31:48 
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"Bill Bonde ( 'the o  2008-04-22 01:56:52 
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Jerry Bauer <usenet@[E  2008-04-20 15:53:54 
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ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-20 16:02:08 
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"Bill Bonde ( 'the o  2008-04-20 22:29:47 
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ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-20 23:08:20 
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Snidely <Snidely.too@[  2008-04-21 15:57:07 
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nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-04-15 01:43:56 
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ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-14 19:23:12 
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nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-04-15 06:07:30 
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ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-15 07:43:24 
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Greg Goss <gossg@[EMAI  2008-04-19 18:50:13 
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ctbishop@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-19 20:50:16 
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Peter Ward <me@[EMAIL   2008-04-20 10:27:07 
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spam.sc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-04-21 08:55:13 
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nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-04-10 14:42:51 
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"artyw2@[EMAIL PROTE  2008-04-10 07:52:00 
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groo <afcagroo@[EMAIL   2008-04-15 03:14:41 
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"Reunite Gondwanalan  2008-04-15 17:41:44 
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groo <afcagroo@[EMAIL   2008-04-16 01:40:21 
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"Reunite Gondwanalan  2008-04-15 22:31:54 
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Veronique <veroniqueun  2008-04-15 19:06:24 
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Veronique <veroniqueun  2008-04-15 19:15:25 
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"Reunite Gondwanalan  2008-04-15 22:34:14 
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"artyw2@[EMAIL PROTE  2008-04-16 04:55:48 
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