March 6, 2006
FOOD TO BURN:
Proposed ethanol plant fuels hopes for cash crop: The facility in Bridgeton, N.J., would create a new market for the region's corn farmers as it produced a gasoline additive. (Edward Colimore, 3/06/06, Inquirer)
They describe the plan as "innovative," "out-of-the-box thinking," "a breakthrough."Posted by Orrin Judd at March 6, 2006 2:07 PMFarmers across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland are supporting a proposal to build an alternative fuel plant in Bridgeton, Cumberland County, saying it would help prop up falling crop prices.
The facility would allow thousands of them to reap what they sow - more profitably - by providing a new market for millions of bushels of corn to produce ethanol. Demand for ethanol, a gasoline additive also called ethyl alcohol, is surging.
On Friday, the plan moved closer to reality when Garden State Ethanol Corp. signed a letter of intent to buy a former glass bottle factory as the facility's 30-acre site.
Why do I read this and picture Tony Soprano hanging out in a cornfield?
Posted by: John at March 6, 2006 3:53 PMWell John, that would mean no union problems.
Posted by: erp at March 6, 2006 6:04 PMJohn, perhaps it's because you've never been to southern NJ. Then again, perhaps it's because you have.
Posted by: Genecis at March 6, 2006 6:29 PMMy grand uncle was a north-central N.J. resident, with a farm northwest of Sommerville -- with cornfield (It was also the site of my first sip of beer at age 6, so maybe a cornfield and the Bada Bing Club could get along in the same neighborhood).
Posted by: John at March 6, 2006 7:43 PMOur grandfather worked in the South Jersey glass factories when he was 13.
Posted by: oj at March 6, 2006 7:46 PMDamn, I can see the price of my popcorn and cheese doodles skyrocketing already.
Well, if it isn't one addiction, it's another.
Posted by: Dusty at March 6, 2006 10:04 PM