Alternative Energy News Archives
Wednesday 31st of December, 1969
Ethanol production shifting into overdrive ★
NorthJersey.com, appx. 825 wordsThe VeraSun Energy Corp. plant in Aurora, South Dakota is one of the largest ethanol producers in the United States (120 million gallons a year). Yet it cannot keep up with increasing demand from oil companies for ethanol, even running 24 hours shifts.
The article goes on to discuss E85 and flex-fuel cars as well as some of the controversy around ethanol production and use.
Quotable from the article:
Ethanol producers see rising production, but the industry expects that in a decade it will max out available corn and grain crops, producing 15 billion gallons of ethanol a year from those sources.
