House Agriculture Chair Says Cellulosic Ethanol is 10 Years Away

UK Reuters reports that the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee announced it would be at least ten years before technology is in place to commercially produce ethanol from farm and forest waste (wood chips, corn stalks, switchgrass). One huge thing we need is more pipelines to support fuel transportation for all the new ethanol facilities that are being built. Ethanol can not be transported through the same pipelines that transport petroleum.

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