FILL'ER UP WITH CORN: Shelly Electric wires ethanol plant projects

摘要

Ethanol is becoming a component in an increasing amount of the nation's fuel supply. Those who manufacture and sell it and the associations that represent them hail ethanol as the reducer of and, ultimately, the means for ending the nation's dependency on foreign oil. In late February 2008, Bob Dinneen, president and chief executive officer of the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) told those attending the association's annual National Ethanol Conference that the U.S. ethanol industry is bringing about "revolutionary" change. "Ethanol is now a ubiquitous component of the U.S. motor fuel supply, blended in more than 50 percent of the nation's gasoline and will very soon be in virtually every single gallon of gasoline sold from coast to coast and border to border," said Dinneen in his 2008 State of the Ethanol Industry Address. "The 6.5 billion gallons of ethanol produced in 2007 displaced America's need for 228 million barrels of oil, saving more than $15 billion, or $45 million a day."