Ethanol is a Win-Win 3
In today’s report, John Crockett, Senior Energy Specialist with the State of Idaho’s Office of Energy Resources, describes the local presence of ethanol.
(Crockett) “Certainly ethanol is coming whether people in Idaho like it or not. It’s just a matter of whether they want to be involved with it or not. That’s all the question is. If they want to be part of that economy or not. Eventually I think they will be. They’ll be dragged into it kicking and screaming. We are way behind right now. Within this last year in Idaho, we went from having about 58 stations that provided e-10 to now where every station has e-10 in it. So Idaho is using a lot more ethanol this year. That ethanol plant in Caldwell isn’t having any trouble selling their fuel, they’re just not getting the money they’d like for it so it’s obviously still tied to the price of gasoline. The reason we have 10% ethanol in our gas right now is because it is mandated by the federal government. Oregon and Washington had mandated it on a state level so the refiner needed to put ethanol in the fuel, and all our fuel suppliers like Jackson’s out there, they didn’t want to have different fuels and they could see the writing on the wall so they switched to ethanol.”
