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To: one_less who wrote (185639)	4/25/2006 5:53:06 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 281500

<<Hey Ish. A while back you said they are building a huge wind farm there in the corn belt where all the ethanol is made. If the power from wind is used to produce the ethanol, then the old complaint about costing more than a gallon of fuel to produce a gallon of ethanol gas goes out the window... right? How close are you to accomplishing that?>> It's 3 farms now, one being the largest in the US and will supply power to 120,000 homes in Chicago. Permits and leases are done so they should start building soon. Some of the newer ethanol plants will run on coal mixed with cobs so not a lot of oil being burned. Farmers have a big say in a lot of our ethanol plants and they know how to save a buck.