Here’s another from the “Better Late Than Never” file. Okay, so it’s only a couple of weeks old… sent August 18. Illinois River Energy announced plans to double the size of its ethanol production facility under construction near Rochelle, from 50 million gallons of ethanol per year to 100 million gallons annually. The plant hasn’t even opened yet and already …
US Farms Ethanol
It’s a holiday so I am cleaning out my email and catching up on some posts that should have been done already. Like this one – received on August 10 – better late than never! US Farms of San Diego established a wholly owned subsidiary – Imperial Ethanol – dedicated to establishing a leading ethanol processing facility located in Imperial …
Fuel of the Future
Here are a couple of recent editorials from the Des Moines Register that hit on the issue of corn ethanol being only the beginning for curing our addiction to oil. “Ethanol is just the beginning” notes the obvious – “grain-based ethanol cannot be anything more than a supplement. It can never totally replace gasoline.” It then goes on to say …
Consumer Retorts
The media has made much this week about the Consumer Reports report that ethanol is less fuel efficient than gasoline. This is something the ethanol industry freely admits. The “quick take” from the Consumer Report is this: E85, which is 85 percent ethanol, emits less smog-causing pollutants than gasoline, but provides fewer miles per gallon, costs more, and is hard …
Fill Up Feel Good at Iowa Corn Indy
The latest “Fill Up, Feel Good” podcast from the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council is about the Iowa Corn Indy 250 announced last month to take place at the new Iowa Speedway. The podcast features comments from Iowa Speedway VP of Operations Craig Armstrong, Iowa Corn Promotion Board chairman Kyle Phillips and Ethanol Promotion and Information Council Executive Director Tom …
Panda Powers Plants With Poop
Texas-based Panda Energy has announced plans to build a 100 million gallon per year ethanol plant in Sherman County, Texas. According to a news release, the Sherman plant will generate the steam used in the ethanol manufacturing process by gasifying more than 1 billion pounds of cattle manure a year. Once complete, it will be one of the most fuel …
Paseo Investment Meeting
Paseo Biofuels, the Kansas City biodiesel plant joint venture between Cargill and Missouri Soybean growers announced earlier this month, is holding an investment meeting this week. It will take place at 1:00 p.m. Thursday at the Farm Credit Services office off Hwy 65 North in Marshall, Missouri. No website yet, so for more information about Paseo Biofuels they suggest you …