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Old 03-14-2013, 01:53 PM   #32 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4 View Post
Methanol does not have to come from fossil fuel.
It can be made from cellulose economically most of the time (unless natural gas is really cheap), today (the plant was built 20 or 30 years ago), unlike ethanol.
Isn't the point that NatGas is really cheap and that's why we are making the vast majority of the methanol used in industry from it? If there was a tax regime that favoured biomass then things might be different!
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