In Iowa, for instance, the boom in natural gas has meant trouble for
the local ethanol industry.
Not exact matches
Municipalities are already fighting over water supplies with the booming biofuels
industry: citizens in the Illinois towns of Champaign and Urbana recently opposed a
local ethanol plant's petition to withdraw two million gallons a day from the
local aquifer to produce 100 million gallons of
ethanol a year.
If Oregon, and the Northwest, truly wants a domestic - as in
local - and renewable fuel source, we should be looking to build a cellulosic
ethanol industry using waste from the large Northwest forestry and agriculture sectors to produce our liquid fuels (and a bit of electricity) as well as additional electricity from the Northwest's diverse and abundant renewable energy sources to power the electric component of a plug - in hybrid flex fuel fleet.