Re: Ethanol Cheaper Than Gasoline

["Joe Fulton" <jfulton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gotta chime in here.  When I worked at Fluor Corp in the early eighties,
Flour was in the midst of construction for the third phase of the Sasol
project in South Africa.  That country has spent billions on converting coal
to liquid fuels and gas.  Much more that just research.

Joe Fulton
Salinas, CA
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From: "Sandwich Maker" <adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: Ethanol Cheaper Than Gasoline


> " From: Michael K <mek_19_99@xxxxxxxxx>
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> " Even more interesting I found from research is that
> " coal can be converted to gasoline at competitive
> " prices to imported oil.  The government discovered two
> " methods for making synthetic fuel after the invasion
> " of Germany in 1945 and successfully duplicated both
> " methods in small to moderate test runs until the
> " 1960's when Congress killed the budget for
> " development.  The fuel was only used for government
> " vehicles.
>
> south africa has done extensive development on gas from coal, also
> based on the original german research.
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