Right Pulse

A little common sense in the budget regarding ethanol:

This measure includes $15.0 million over four years for the Second Generation (Gen 2) Biofuels Technology Research and Development program. This program will assist in developing next generation ethanol technology by providing grants to Australian companies to commercialise new technology using sugar cane waste and other woody material as alternative fuel sources.

I take that to mean that the Government is not interested in ethanol from food stuffs like corn, noting that ethanol is normally a by-product of sugar cane production. Although I still would not put it in my car, for amongst the following reasons:

Ethanol contains water that distillation cannot remove. As such, it can cause major damage to automobile engines not specifically designed to burn ethanol…

Ethanol is 20 to 30 percent less efficient than gasoline, making it more expensive per highway mile…

…it takes 1,700 gallons of water to produce one gallon of ethanol…

Ethanol is so costly that it wouldn’t make it in a free market…

And ethanol production world wide has contributed to the recent increase in world food prices, as explained in the following video.

The main feeling I am getting from fellow conservative bloggers and commentators is that the 2020 Summit was basically a reiteration of ALP policies, led by ALP politicians at the various Summit panels. Bolt has a good summation of this feeling.

A good example is the Republic. On ABC Insiders it was reported that 99 of the 100 people on the governance panel indicated that they wanted a Republic, even though 72 per cent of Australian electorates rejected the Republic in 1999. Elitism at its best…

And then there are other proposals to introduce death taxes and other nanny state ideas to be promoted by the Australian main stream media, because they were involved in the Summit themselves, including an army of ABC employees.

So don’t expect balanced reporting from the main stream media about the Summit.