Senator Crapo,
In this
third message, we share with you how:
·
people can help themselves in
the rural towns of Idaho and in the nation
·
the federal government can
help the people
None of
us had written a grant, before we submitted
USDA-CSREES-SBIR-002363
. We did the best we could,
understanding that competition for these SBIR grants makes getting the grant one
chance in 10 or 50 or so.
Now we
are starting on
DE-FOA-0000161
, a DOE grant.
We are
also trying to interest Doug Sayers,
Premier Technology
in building an ethanol facility in Salmon, as a model for the 10,000 communities
nationwide that are similar.
Because
rural communities, like Salmon, with mining and logging a past
industry, we have unemployed and underemployed citizens, and we have young
people leaving town to find work.
Our idea
can end this sad story. With full
production of fuel in Salmon, we add
$28,955,050 to the local economy, $5,149,500 to household income, and 182 jobs
in the town. The $10.5 million that
we send to oil companies will stay in the town and the so-called trickle-down
process does the rest.
With local fuel production and use, the variation in cost of gasoline is
eliminated. Rural communities will not have to pay whatever the price is at the
gas pump. These communities will balance the cost of feed-stock production and
fuel cost, to produce a stable price for fuel and a fair profit to the farmer.
This is how the people can help themselves and at the same time solve the
energy, environment, and wage-productivity inequity.
Senator Crapo, here is what we are asking you to do:
Can you
explore with Senator Sam Brownback how we can work with ICM to build a 4 mgy
ethanol plant in Salmon? Commander
Chassis can build the facility from blueprints that
ICM produces.
ICM
in Kansas has designed plants for corn ethanol.
We must use a different feedstock. ICM can show us how to
Capture the carbon dioxide
from the fermentation
Use
an external heat source for the distiller
Configure the fermentation
Build
the distiller
We must use a different
feedstock. That is a project that
Commander Chassis in Salmon can solve, if we can find money to do this.
Can you help us find money to prepare the feed-stock?
Easy Energy
Systems has a 1 million gallon per year (gpy) modular ethanol plant that costs
$2,100,000 that can be the model for Salmon to show the state and the nation.
We need to obtain a 140’x40’ building with
20’ sidewalls ($450) , a
heating system ($78K), and a cooling tower ($39K).
The
Senator Crapo, you have said: It is important that advocacy of Idaho
initiatives are done in a manner that meets the following criteria:
1.
It should reflect fiscal responsibility in use of federal funds.
Fewer people will be on unemployment and in
need of other assistance from the government, when money for fuel is circulated
in the town and not sent to oil companies, as it is now.
2.
It should add value to Idaho communities, critical research
efforts, or to the general understanding of important issues and be consistent
with Idaho priorities.
This
project will enable a rural community to make the fuel that they use to replace
the $10.5 million each year for gasoline.
A community of 8000, who makes their own fuel, will add
$28,955,050 to the
local economy, $5,149,500 to household income, and 182 jobs in the town.
Salmon has had a lot of effort put into it to make it like other Idaho tourist
towns. The lack of success has been because of its geographic location and
because it has no attraction to make it a destination, such as a ski resort town
has. The development of a self-sustaining economy, starting with transportation
fuel will decrease the deterioration of our small economies and improve the
impact on the environment nationwide. When Salmon establishes itself as
the birthplace of a truly self-sustaining all-around economy city, county, state
and federal policy makers will use Salmon as the model of where our country
needs to go.
3.
Federal
assistance should be appropriate for the project.
All small towns pay tax that contributes to the tax incentives for fossil
fuel. This project is a way to return some of our taxes to the people who
rarely see a significant return on the taxes we pay.
What better way to advance the nation beyond the politics that this project
addresses than to financially support the necessary change in how we support all
of America’s needs in one project.
4.
It should provide a national benefit or be consistent with ongoing
national efforts.
Every town in the nation can make their own fuel. Every town can combat poverty,
unemployment, global warming and nutritious food issues causing excessive
healthcare costs, all by producing their own transportation fuel.
In
the format you list for these projects, here is our project:
Project Name: Rural Towns Make Their Own Fuel
Amount Requested: $6,500,000
Recipient: Commander Chassis
Location: Salmon
Public Interest: Helps small towns in Idaho to be energy independent.
Description:
A community of 8000, who spends
$10.5 million on gasoline each year now, will add
$28,955,050 to the local economy, $5,149,500
to household income, and 182 jobs in the town.
The biomass conversion bio-refinery that we innovate will convert sugar
beets into ethanol.
In the USA, 5,440 towns use 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 gallons
of gasoline. Easy Energy Systems’
1-10 million facilities can serve 5,440 towns.
These data from:
http://www.census.gov/popest/cities/files/SUB-EST2007-IP.csv
Consider
$3.00 per gallon for gasoline. That means $3.00 x 1,000,000 = $3 million
and $3.00 x 10,000,000 = $30,000,000 is money spent by the lowest and highest
population towns. These 5,440 towns
spent
$53,219,354,760 on gasoline in 2007.
That is $53 billion of the $413,481,307,500 spent
on gasoline nationwide.
That is about 13% of the money that is spent
nationwide, which is spent in these 5,440 towns for gasoline.
Assume a profit of 1%.
The profit for these towns is $5.3 billion.
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_cons_prim_dcu_nus_a.htm
Kansas towns spent $3,008,760,300