Word: ethanol
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...agricultural town of 3,400, where Colorado's greenest acres gently slope into Kansas and Nebraska, is placing itself smack in the middle of the global energy game. Farmers are plowing their fields, planting corn and feeding cattle while work continues on the first of two multimillion-dollar corn-ethanol plants that could transform Yuma into one of the more vibrant alternative-fuel production centers in the Western U.S. The timing couldn't be better, with gasoline prices well over $3 per gal. as the summer driving season begins. But the choice of corn-based ethanol is one that might...
...ethanol-distilling plant owned by the locally backed Yuma Ethanol, whose investors include farmers, ranchers and other businesspeople from the area, is scheduled to open in July. Another plant is scheduled to break ground later this year, according to Dallas-based Panda Energy International. Together, these operations, which represent $250 million in capital investment, plan to chew up at least 55 million bu. of corn each year and pump out 200 million gal. of what President George W. Bush, Corn Belt politicians, A-list investors and farmers hope will cut the U.S.'s reliance on foreign oil, clean...
Percentage of the U.S. corn crop used for ethanol production in 2006. Corn, a key crop for food aid, will increasingly be used to make ethanol, thus further reducing the amount of food shipped...
Time has come to end this relationship; national security has been wearing the pants for too long. This is already the case with the ethanol orgy in the Midwest. Despite the fact that corn-derived ethanol only yields 30 percent more energy than is required to produce it , a splurge of federal subsidies have brought about the largest acreage since 1944. And what’s more, the average American probably thinks this is a good thing...
...sooner this partnership is ended, the better, for the two groups are unlikely to agree over the next step. The current boom in clean energy investment will only be sustained if the price of oil remains high. Cellulosic ethanol, produced from trees and shrubs, promises energy yield ratios of 16, but requires extensive research into cheaper enzymes. A full-scale carbon tax would help, but hawks reject such action as quite rash. At most, they might support a gasoline tax as a way of weaning America off Saudi crude...