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Keeping Ethanol Production Green

From Anguil Environmental Systems, Inc.
 

 

In an effort to reduce the world's dependence on fossil fuels, there has been a major push towards alternatives. Ethanol has been at the forefront of this movement because it reduces greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and its production has a positive net energy balance. The homegrown fuel also reduces the need for imported oil from sometimes unfriendly and unreliable supplier nations.
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 required the blending of 7.5 billion gallons per year of renewable fuels with gasoline by 2012. According to the Renewable Fuels Association, that threshold should be met sometime this summer, on a capacity basis. Ethanol plants are expanding and being developed at a significant rate in North America and throughout the world.


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