Illinois Corn Growers Association representatives were on hand to witness the groundbreaking of Center Ethanol Company in Sauget last week. The plant will use 19.2 million bushel of corn annually and will be able to produce 54 million gallons of ethanol per year. “The current boom in ethanol is still reliant on entrepreneurs and local business leaders like those here …

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 …

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 …

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 …