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Monday, January 28, 2008

Ethanol Infrastructure Issues

It's nice to know the folks at Purdue agree with me...

Infrastructure not ready for all the ethanol to be produced in '08

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - By the end of 2008, the United States will have the capacity to produce 13 billion gallons of ethanol, but a Purdue University expert said the maximum ethanol the market can handle is 12 billion gallons, and perhaps considerably less.

"Ethanol production capacity has...(complete article here).

1 comment:

reggy said...

Petron will start selling gas with ethanol this year.
PETRON CORP. is expected to start offering ethanol-blended gasoline within the year, ahead of the mandated implementation of the 5-percent ethanol blend by 2009.
Petron president Kamal Al-Yahya said the oil firm would start selling gasoline with a 10-percent ethanol blend within 2008, even if it would have to source its ethanol from abroad.

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