Saturday, September 03, 2005

Crowd Praises Ethanol Plant Arrival

Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com:
Susan Erller -- Sept 2, 2005
Some in the crowd responded by saying 'Amen' when Ron Gick, president of Iroquois' board of directors, said the nation would benefit from less reliance on fossil fuel.

'The U.S. needs to be more independent and do a lot more renewable fuels,' Gick said.

The $66 million plant will have capacity to process up to 14.3 million bushels of corn a year into 40 million gallons of fuel-grade ethanol, a clean burning renewable fuel that has been touted as an alternative to Middle Eastern oil.

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