This water is obtained from underground aquifers, and as
ethanol production reaches a fever pitch in Iowa, the state's water supply is threatened.
Not exact matches
Non-conventional liquids
production has
reached ~ 4.5 Mbbl / d since 1960, which includes EOR, oil sands, CTL, GTL,
ethanol, biodiesel.
Bloomberg Businessweek explains more clearly than EPA does why the agency had to back - peddle so furiously: «The Environmental Protection Agency proposed requiring less cellulosic
ethanol to be blended into gasoline next year than sought under U.S. law because
production of the alternative fuel hasn't
reached commercial scale.»