Looking at the headline you would think Governor Rod Blagojevich is against new ethanol research. Not so. According to the AP story, he is against the government wasting money, building a new center when they can just upgrade the current National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center in Edwardsville instead. The new center is proposed to research cellulosic ethanol, however, so the current center might have to change it’s name. The three-year-old research center at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville was built in part with $14 million in federal money. According to the article, revamping the center could cost as little as $8 million and be accomplished in six months.
Wow – what a concept! The government not wasting money.