It should have been by2005.
Panda Ethanol formally announces Bailey County (Texas) plant construction by Larry Thornton (Muleshoe Journal)
Rumors of an ethanol plant being constructed near Progress were finally laid to rest Wednesday, Nov. 1, with the announcement that Panda Ethanol Inc. plans to construct a 100 million gallon-per-year plant in Bailey County.
For several months, whispers about the proposed plant have been circulating around Muleshoe, with the first public disclosures coming during a late-July Bailey County Commissioners’ Court, covered by the Journal, in which Muleshoe city officials and county officials discussed the possibilities of providing a paved road to the facility.
At that meeting, Steve Warren, the Texas Department of Transportations’ Director of Transportation Planning in Lubbock, congratulated the county officials on planned construction of the ethanol plant, and said one of TxDOT’s goals was to help economic development.
The wave builds...
Bump.
If we can get cheap wind, solar, hydro, and NUKE going in a big way, we have clean air, and no oil from the middle east or Venezuela. How much has the Iraq war cost us now? Just think if we plowed $500 billion into tax credits, university supported research into alternative fuels instead? American companies would own the patents, we would sell them to the cheese eating surrender monkeys and old Europe while the middle east went back to camel riding. Our air would be cleaner, we would create a ton of jobs building these new techs, support jobs, you name it. Liberals would love the clean air, conservatives would love not having to deal with the islamists, win win all around.
We also have the new bulbs that can cut our energy costs by 10% if we all switched. 22% of energy bills are lighting. We need to ditch the old bulbs. Each one we buy means more money for the terrorists. Seriously. They get funded by energy money.
25%? That's great. Only one small problem, though. Where do we go for the other 75%? Seems like we're leaving the larger problem unsolved if we focus on the 25% solution.