Governors want more ethanol

InTech, Jul 2005

Governors from 33 states are pushing to expand a proposed federal mandate for use of ethanol as a vehicle-fuel additive.

The Governors' Ethanol Coalition released a report supporting production requirements of 8 billion gallons of the additive a year by 2012 and calling for incentives to make at least 10% of that from a new process that can produce the fuel out of cornstalks, wheat and rice straw.

Ethanol, when blended into gasoline, stretches the fuel's supply and makes it burn more cleanly. The nation's ethanol producers currently make about 3.7 billion gallons a year, 95% from com.