America's next president will likely be consumed with massive deficit and budget problems that will overshadow almost everything else. That, the war, and other pressing issues will leave little time for renewable energy. "The in-box is already full," so don't expect sweeping new biofuels proposals to come from the White House in 2009.
Prudent ethanol producers have shown an interest in becoming generators of carbon credits and are leading the way for others to follow despite the fact that carbon trading the United State is done on a voluntary basis. This is the first of EPM's two-part look at the current U.S. market and what might be in store for 2009.
Craig Ammann of KL Process Design Group and a South Dakota Harley-Davidson dealership converted Ammann's 2004 Electra Glide Harley-Davidson motorcycle to run on ethanol.
September 22, 2008
It's taken only two years for the industry to move from 100 to 200 operating plants.
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