Community Transportation Initiative

CTI...a community private/public partnership promoting responsible
clean air transportation choices invites you to the

Ethanol Roundtable

 

What do corn, barley, wheat, rice straw, pulpwood, switchgrass and municipal solid waste all have in common? Ethanol - a renewable fuel that can be produced from all of these and other feedstocks.

picture courtesy of www.hawaii.gov/dbedt

On September 14, 2006, the public was invited to an Ethanol Roundtable sponsored by CTI.  The purpose was to learn more about ethanol - the various feedstocks from which ethanol is produced; the differences between sugar-based ethanol versus cellulosic ethanol, the energy balance associated with the production of ethanol, the environmental benefits of this domestically produced fuel and the current ethanol efforts underway in Florida.

Flexible vehicles are available today and designed to run on E85 or gasoline. Though E85 is presently scarce, more and more ethanol production plants are being built; the supply will increase dramatically over the next few years.

Tallahassee will be the site of the Florida’s first E85 public facility that is scheduled to open soon, increasing the state’s inventory of ethanol fueling stations to three. Hurlburt Airforce Base and the Kennedy Space Center both have ethanol facilities that service only fleet vehicles.

Florida is now poised to embrace ethanol due to the passage of legislation allowing the retail sale of E85; the introduction of ethanol production plants and the soon to be realized increased availability of ethanol retail sales locations. Ethanol is ready to fuel Florida.

To listen to the Ethanol Roundtable, click on the links below:

• Agenda (pdf)
• Ethanol/CTI Roundtable, part 1 -- September 14, 2006 (wma)
• Ethanol/CTI Roundtable, part 2 -- September 14, 2006 (wma)

 

 

Discussion Participants:

• University of South Florida Center for Urban Transportation Research, Transportation Program, Economic Evaluation and Analysis, Program Director - Steve Reich, moderator
• Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Chief Bureau of Petroleum Inspection - Dr. Matthew Curran
• Florida Department of Environmental Protection, SE District Air Resources Environmental Specialist - Bruce Offord
• Tampa Bay Area Ethanol Consortium (Demonstration Facility for the Commercialization of Florida Biomass Feedstocks for Ethanol Production) - J. Kieran Jennings
• US EnviroFuels, President and Managing Partner (via conference call) - Bradley Krohn

 

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