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Jun
23
Feds Don’t Know How Much E85 They’re Using
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The Federal Government doesn’t know how much E85 it is using in its flex-fuel vehicles, reports the Federal Times. Government credit cards don’t always properly record E85 purchases.
“We can’t tell for the bulk of these vehicles which fuels we’re purchasing,” said Marc McConahy, owner of Vista Consultants, who studied the problem for two years for the Energy Department.
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Jun
20
Trash-to-ethanol plan gets Hobart’s support
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City officials in Hobart are supporting a plan by Lake County, Indiana solid waste officials to build a trash-to-ethanol conversion plant in the county, reports the Northwest Indiana Times.
City officials have agreed to draft a letter supporting efforts by the Lake County Solid Waste Management District to turn garbage into ethanol.
The council’s agreement Wednesday to go forward with a letter of support followed a presentation at a meeting two weeks ago by district manager Jeff Langbehn.
Langbehn said the district’s board voted in March to draft a contract with Genahol-Powers 1 LLC and Indiana Ethanol Power LLC, both of Evansville, and Allied Waste, of Crown Point, to turn the county’s municipal garbage into biofuel and more traditional recyclable materials.
Meanwhile, county officials have delayed a vote on the proposed trash-to-cellulosic ethanol plant for up to two months to work out contract details, reports the Northwest Indiana Times.
