Poet axes plan for Glenville ethanol plant

Shut them all down. Get the detergents and ethanol out of the gasoline and we will all be getting 25-35 mpg. When you buy a gallon of gas nearly half of it is additives..not fuel.

The MPCA's Minnesota nice obstructionism is also largely the reason the Agassiz plant near Erskine has yet to get off the drawing board - after nearly two years of permitting fits and starts, changing interpretation of rules, etc. It's never just one thing. Prior to that the MPCA had to be dragged to the state supreme court to issue permits for the Heron Lake ethanol plant. Contrary to the governor's pep talk at the American Coalition for Ethanol convention - the word is out - the ethanol industry need not apply for new plants in Minnesota. After their success fostering rural economic development, maybe the MPCA can next be put in charge of bridge maintenance, or the foreclosure crisis.

I'm fine with this plant not opening. Corn ethanol, while it is an efficient fuel to use, is not an efficient fuel to produce. It takes way too much water to produce so little fuel.

HVH wrote:

I'm fine with this plant not opening. Corn ethanol, while it is an efficient fuel to use, is not an efficient fuel to produce. It takes way too much water to produce so little fuel.

do you really know it is NOT an efficient fuel at all, gets less mpg worse in cold weather can not be transported in pipe lines because it absorbses water so has to be hauled by semis using worse green bio deisel that jells up in winter, we want to be like Brazil which use sugar cane which they can grow year round so we take food which we can grow ,what 3 to 4 months, we subzidize the co-ops, each $10,000 they invested they get a check back each year for $10,000 if it`s such a good product let the market dictate.

This is typical PCA boondoggling killing business development. They should quit being the bottleneck of economic progress. The comment about other states starting later and getting construction nearly complete before the PCA gets close to completing the the permiting is pretty typical. The PCA permit system is a big mess that they have been trying to fix but have not figured out reality yet. The PCA person said it would take them a couple weeks to get the final 1% done one the permit. That must mean he thinks it is reasonable to take 200 weeks to do a permit. Business does not have that kind of time to waste.