Chattanooga City Council Clears Another Hurdle for Ethanol Transfer Facility

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Updated: 2/15 3:57 am
     The Chattanooga City Council also cleared another hurdle for the developers of a controversial ethanol pipeline during Tuesday evening's meeting.
     In a five to four vote, the Council voted to rezone the area around Enterprise Park Drive.
     Englewood Enterprises wants to build an ethanol transferring station there.
     The developer says the pipeline would keep 42-hundred ethanol trucks off the interstate, if it is allowed to off-load the fuel from railcars.
     A neighborhood group opposes the facility.
     Residents worry the plant will lower their property values.
     Civil Engineer Mike Price said, "We've addressed those in a proper manner, retooled the plan completely, put it back in a manner that met the concerns of the staff, met the concerns of the County Commission."
     The pipeline will be discussed again Wednesday at the Hamilton County Commission meeting.
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tnlobo420 - 2/15/2012 8:34 AM
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Growing corn for fuel consumes more fuel than it produces! http://www.opednews.com/articles/Deregulation-of-GM-Corn-fo-by-Timmie-Stockman-110218-869.html

tnlobo420 - 2/15/2012 8:32 AM
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Ethanol has a negative energy balance. Ethanol from corn, switchgrass, and wood biomass requires 29%, 50%, and 57% more energy, respectively, to create the ethanol than the energy contained within the fuel. Because ethanol production requires a significant amount of energy, and most energy in the US is produced from coal, the small reduction in CO2 and other polluting emissions from burning ethanol versus gasoline will be more than offset by the power needed to produce the ethanol. Ethanol crops have a notoriously low energy yield per hectare. Thus, it requires a large amount of land to produce a meaningful amount of ethanol. Last year, 20% of the total corn crop was used to produce ethanol, and it offset only 1% of US oil use.
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