TOWN VS. COUNTRY;  Vanishing Croplands; Preserving Farmland Could Pay Off for Wisconsin With the Nation's New Interest in Ethanol and Other Biofuels.
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By FRANZEN  Drive on rural roads through southeastern Wisconsin on a chilly February day, and you can still find acres of windblown fields of white stretching into the distance. But the feeling of open space is illusory.
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By Ian Johnston Environment Correspondent  WILD flowers grown on some of the world's least fertile land could provide huge amounts of environmentally friendly biofuel, according to US scientists.
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The road to energy independence starts in a cornfield in Nebraska. Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla explains why he believes in biofuels. From Wired magazine.
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Iowa residents notice the White House hopefuls who regularly tour their state, one of the nation's premier agriculture regions, don't mention farming much, but they love ethanol. Other ag issues may take a backseat, but a pro-ethanol stance translates to farm support -- it means high prices for corn and soybeans.
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Clearing land to produce biofuels such as ethanol will do more to exacerbate global warming than using gasoline or other fossil fuels, two scientific studies show.
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Even in the Midwest where ethanol is most popular, its success as an alternative fuel is far from assured.
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By Michael G. Mooney, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Jun. 6--They're not opposed to ethanol, just the way Stanislaus County has "fast-tracked" a proposal to build an ethanol plant in Keyes.
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Demand for ethanol has been a boon for corn farmers and small production plants, but DuPont wants to bring in a billion bucks from improving ethanol efficiency. Plus: Car buyers still vote  SUVs most popular. In Autopia.
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NEW YORK -- America is drunk on ethanol. Farmers in the Midwest are sending billions of bushels of corn to refineries that turn it into billions of gallons of fuel.
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Ethanol demand has doubled corn prices, making it more profitable than agave.
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By Jay Burney  The newly proposed ethanol production facility, announced for downtown Buffalo, may carry with it some seriously negative environmental and economic consequences.  For instance, the U.S.
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Washington state legislators are  considering a bill to promote a biofuels industry in the state  and require state-owned fleet vehicles to reduce use of fossil  fuels.
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Across the globe, huge demand for biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using it for food.
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Sequencing of the poplar tree may lead to cheaper, more plentiful biofuels.
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Illinois startup Coskata says it can make ethanol out of almost anything for under a buck a gallon. Environmentalists and energy experts are cautiously optimistic that the company may be on to something.
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The cars, SUVS and pickups people will buy in the years ahead are likely to use less fuel, and many will rely on ethanol or household electricity instead of gasoline. The energy legislation pushed through the Senate this week provides a roadmap to the future, demanding higher automobile fuel economy, mandating huge increases in ethanol as a motor fuel and supporting more research into building "plug-in" hybrid-electric vehicles.
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By CRYSTALR. REID  North Dakota has coal, oil and, more recently, ethanol from its corn.  Its landscape is dotted with corn, wheat, canola, soybeans and pulse crops. In between sit conservation lands, open prairie with native grasses.