Of Course We Can Have Fuel for Under $2.00

There are various ways of making ethanol or other alcohol fuels under $2.00 or even $1.00/gallon. Using microbes saves energy when breaking down organic materials.

clipped from wot.motortrend.com Company claims its ethanol could sell for $1.50 a gallon Developed by experts from the Coors brewery, crude oil refining, and other chemical industries, the process involves joining biomass in a fermenter with a naturally occurring microorganism (found in sources such as termites or horse manure) that unlike other methods uses all fractions of the plant, meaning the energy of all fractions of the biomass end up in the product. According to the company, their process will theoretically produce a maximum 160 gallons of ethanol for every ton of biomass, and a biomass farm with an eight-mile radius could support a refinery producing approximately 300 million gallons of the fuel per year. Well, according to ZeaChem CEO James Imber, the company will be able to produce ethanol at 80 cents per gallon at the plant, which he estimates would equal a price of about $1.50 at the pump.