History

While sources may show that ethanol has been around for nearly 100 years, the use of ethanol has really started to soar in the last 40. The oil embargo in the 70's and the rise in crude oil prices in the 80's and now 2000's, ethanol has changed our lives. This whole boom started with one small company in the midwest selling to local gas companies to mix with their fuel, and then sell to a small number of stations. The first major plants purposes were to impact the commercial market but their were to many barriers to cross and that had to wait.

Thanks for the history lesson from ethanolacrossamerica.net


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