The latest “Fill Up, Feel Good” podcast from the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council is on ethanol making tracks all over the racing world. It features interviews with people who use ethanol in competition vehicles, including tractor pulls and sprint cars, as well as Indy car drivers Jeff Simmons and Danica Patrick and a guy who makes fast cars go …
Xethanol On the Defensive
Xethanol Corporation issued a press release this week defending itself against “inaccurate and misleading statements” made in an article published by The Motley Fool on Friday, June 23. Xethanol took offense at the Fool’s suggestion that it “was formed simply to capitalize on the ethanol interest in today’s market.” To set the record straight, the release states that Xethanol was …
New Mexico Plant Plans
Clovis, New Mexico is the future site of a 105 million gallon a year ethanol plant planned by private equity firms Riverstone Holdings and The Carlyle Group. According to a news release, “the plant will more than triple New Mexico’s ethanol output. New Mexico’s only other ethanol plant, Abengoa in Portales, currently produces 30 million gallons annually.” The plant will …
Illinois Corn Greeting
Jim Robbins, Illinois Corn Marketing Board Director, showed up to greet the AASHTO convoy in Tinley Park, IL. In fact, he gave our convoy group and nice description of what ethanol means to him as a farmer and to our country.
Field of Future Fuel
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Most of the corn I’ve seen along I-80 looks pretty good. This is near Ottawa, IL. It’s the tallest corn I’ve seen so far coming east.
IL Senator Dick Durbin
We stopped in Illinois off the road in Ottawa where the original test site was set up by what is now AASHTO to test various highway products and procedures. To do this a lot of people put in a lot of work over years, including driving a track millions of miles.
EPIC Sponsors Local Event
Joanna Schroeder works for the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council which is an AASHTO Convoy sponsor and sponsor of Domestic Fuel and my trip. She came to our Iowa event to tell people about the good things that ethanol is doing for America.
IA State University Ethanol Car
When we got to Living History Farm in Urbandale, IA Tony Sartor, Iowa State University had an ethanol car on display.
IA Lt. Gov. Sally Pederson
The Lt. Governor of Iowa met our convoy off of I-80 after we got into Iowa. She’s Sally Pederson (right), seen here with AASHTO staff members Jennifer Gavin (left) and Kathie Leyendecker.
Burn Ethanol In That Harley
Before we were escorted into Living History Farms in Iowa I met with our escorts, the American Legion Riders of Iowa.