Alternate Fuels as an Investment Jim Letourneau ( http://www.thebigpictureguy.com/ ) is a Calgary newsletter publisher on oil and gas energy for Tom Allen's Howe Street Media ( www.howestreet.com). Jim was telling the world to buy Uranium a couple of years ago at $12.00 and it is now over $75.00, so he does not just stick to oil and gas. I asked him about ethanol and he made the statement that you could feed a person for a year with the amount of corn it would take to make enough ethanol to fill a Hummer.. This was his follow-up to that statement. It goes along with my look at 'on board' hydrogen generators for your car, another intersting idea you can see at ( http://www.supplementalhydrogen.net/ or http://www.speedace.info/hydro_gen_hydrogen_gas_generator.htm ) david ingram ---------------------- Jim Letourneau, P.Geol. wrote: David: Thanks again for the fun interview at the Vancouver Cambridge House show. I couldn't remember Lester Brown as the source of the "feed a person for a year or fill up a Hummer" anecdote. http://www.bigpicturespeculatorblog.com/2007/06/lester_brown_po.html Of course maybe he made that up so I did some quick research: How much corn is needed to make ethanol? For every one bushel of corn, approximately 2.7 - 2.8 gallons of ethanol is produced. The Hummer HI has a 53 gallon tank which means that 19.27 bushels of corn are used to fill the tank at 2.75 gallons/bushel. Corn can weigh anywhere from 45-70+lbs/bushel. Using 56 lb/bushel (http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/scales/bushels.html) leads to 1079 lbs of corn being used to fill a hummer tank. An ear of corn weighs anywhere from 5.4-9.6 oz. so if we use an 8oz ear of corn we get 2158 ears of corn. That would give a corn eater 5.9 ears a day to live on. There is certainly room for tinkering with these numbers but I think the numbers make sense. take care, Jim -------------------------------- david ingram replies I looked up a couple of sites as well because of your comment and found a dozen references with different quotes, most of which seemed to think that a 25 gallon fill up would feed a person for a year. Try http://www.enviroblog.org/2007/04/feed_the_hummer_forget_the_hun.htm and http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/07/lester_brown_ethanol.php and http://www.benking.co.uk/blog/?p=53 and this letter re the Brazil story. The writer suggests that 10% of brazil's actual energy comes from ethanol while CNN's report suggested that 50% came from ethanol and some reports were suggesting 100%. http://robertrapier.wordpress.com/tag/brazilian-ethanol/ I have been running all our cars on MOHAWK 10% ethanol for four years now.and wonder if that is really the way to go now. It takes 1.56 litres of ethanol for the power of 1 litre of gas and I notice that my old caddys get 5 km a litre with the ethanol blend and 6 with straight shell gas. HMMMM?! It is all something to think about. ---------------------------------------------- David Ingram wrote: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is very unlikely that blind or unexpected email to me will be answered. I receive anywhere from 100 to 700 unsolicited emails a day and usually answer anywhere from 2 to 20 if they are not from existing clients. Existing clients are advised to put their 'name and PAYING CUSTOMER' in the subject and get answered first. I also refuse to be a slave to email and do not look at it every day and have never ever looked at it when I am out of town. However, I regularly search for the words"PAYING CUSTOMER" and always answer them first if they did not get spammed out. 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This is not intended to be definitive but in general I am quoting $800 to $2,800 for a dual country tax return. $800 would be one T4 slip one W2 slip one or two interest slips and you lived in one country only - no self employment or rentals or capital gains - you did not move into or out of the country in this year. $1,000 would be the same with one rental $1,200 would be the same with one business no rental $1,200 would be the minimum with a move in or out of the country. These are complicated because of the back and forth foreign tax credits. - The IRS says a foreign tax credit takes 1 hour and 53 minutes. $1,500 would be the minimum with a rental or two in the country you do not live in or a rental and a business and foreign tax credits no move in or out $1,600 would be for two people with income from two countries $2,800 would be all of the above and you moved in and out of the country. This is just a guideline for US / Canadian returns We will still prepare Canadian only (lives in Canada, no US connection period) with two or three slips and no capital gains, etc. for $150.00 up. With a Rental for $350 A Business for $350 - Rental and business likely $450 And an American only (lives in the US with no Canadian income or filing period) with about the same things in the same range with a little bit more if there is a state return. Moving in or out of the country or part year earnings in the US will ALWAYS be $800 and up. TDF 90-22.1 forms are $50 for the first and $25.00 each after that when part of a tax return. 8891 forms are generally $50.00 to $100.00 each. 18 RRSPs would be $900.00 - (maybe amalgamate a couple) Capital gains *sales) are likely $50.00 for the first and $20.00 each after that. Just a guideline not etched in stone. This from "ask an income trusts tax and immigration expert" from www.centa.com or www.jurock.com or www.featureweb.com. 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