University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, October 10, 1979
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Alcohol plant to use waste
Bv BARBARA ROSEWICZ
TOPEKA (UPI)-Highway Oil Co. of Teokaeraya早就 announced to build up a storage facility that would produce alcohol for use in gasohol and would reef on animal waste for food.
The gasoline retailing company intends to build the plant in Paxico, 30 miles west of Topeka, and run it on renewable energy - that is, wind energy. It can supply 10,000 cattle at a feed plant.
Vice President Raymond Gaffney said that the plant would cost from $6 million to $8 million and would produce 5 million gallons of pure anhydrous alcohol a year.
The alcohol will be blended into Gasolon, a motor fuel mixture of 10 percent alcohol and 90 percent gasoline.
Unlike current distillers, Highway Oil's facility will count on a large herd of cattle to kick off a chain of renewable energy sources.
UP TO 10,000 cattle will be housed in confinement buildings located near Rancho Sandoval in southeastern Santa Barbara solar energy, animal waste will be converted to methane gas, which is similar to methane.
The gas is expected to provide 78 percent of the energy needed to fire boilers to distill grains into alcohol.
To complete the cycle, the protein-rich grain base leave over from the alcohol-producing process will be funneled back into the energy chain as part of the cattle's feed.
Gaffney said nonrenewable energy sources, such as crude oil, would be used on a standby basis to make the plant as energy self-sufficient as possible.
"WE HAD TO stay away from fossil fuels, such as oil, which the reason the business was formed was to plant fuel to make alcohol would be self-defeating, if you use that kind of energy to run a car."
Gaffney said the design had been tinkered with in scientific circles for years, but he knew of no other plant on the map or the drawing board that used it.
He said the business would be prepared to handle 5,000 to 6,000 bushels of grain a day, offering an alternative market for local farmers.
Milo will be the primary grain employed to make the alcohol, but the plant also will be able to potatoes or sugar beets.
THE COMPANY has just begun to gather information about the plant. Gaffney predicted that the plant would be operating in one year. A consulting firm will design the facility to be selected this year.
Gaffney said the company had decided to build the plant because of the large demand for Gasolah, which has been increasingly the car owners and helps stretch fuel reserves.
Gaffney said a 10 percent federal tax credit was the most important incentive prompting new alcohol plants. He stressed that alcohol companies are more committed on both the federal and state levels.
THE PLANT WILL be built by Highway 102 and the Hudson Ranch. The companies raised money to build the distillery by selling 10 service stations and 8,000 acres of rancher land.
Highway O1, whose board chairman is A.B. Hudson, owns more than 200 retail gasoline stores in 38 states. The first state to join the league markets the blend in four other states: Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska and Ohio. It makes up about 10 percent of its sales.
Gaffney said the company would blend the interests of its investors in logistics and economically feasible. He said costs prohibited selling it in other states, such as Missouri, that had no tax implications.
The company's eventual goal is to see Gasohol make up 100 percent of its sales, he said.
Carter political aides have questioned whether Mondale should be part of the 1980 ticket.
“It’s not quite as constructive a proposal as at first blush it seems to be,” the president said. But he did call the offer interesting.
The president defended his decision to wait until Dec. 4 to announce his campaign plans.
CARTER REITERATED his determination to stick with Vice President Walter Mondale as his running mate in any re-election bid.
THE NEWS CONFERENCE was the president's first since July 25, when Carter completed his Cabinet shake-up.
Yesterday's conference resulted in a variety of questions about Carter's finances since an apparent presidential campaign by Sen. Edward Kennedy surfaced.
"I think it's an effort designed to disarm the willingness or eagerness of our allies adequately to defend themselves."
But Carter side-step most of the questions and suggested to one reporter that she was delivering a campaign speech for the Massachusetts Democrat.
"I want to do all I can without being an announced candidate, to work with Congress," he said.
to continue their own rate of modernization as it has been, provided we don't modernize at all.
- Refused to predict how he would fare in the upcoming Florida straw vote for presidential candidates.
The president said he would prefer to modernize the forces of NATO and then to negotiate with the Soviets.
On other subjects, Carter:
* Declined to state whether he would debate any Democratic or Republican presidential opponents.
No Dealers Please
Carter made his first public response yesterday to an offer by the Soviet Union to withdraw 20,000 troops from Central Asia, which was in preparation for deployment of missiles in western Europe.
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- Declined to comment in detail on the problems associated with allegations of cocaine use by Hamilton Jordan, his White House chief of staff.
Carter said the Russians were offering
Although inflation has soared to an annual rate of about 13 percent, the president said, his economic program has reduced unemployment and cut the budget. Carter said he thought that the program would yield its results and that he intended to maintain it.
Carter reaffirms inflation fight
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WASHINGTON (AP)—President Carter renewed his commitment yesterday to fighting inflation, even if it means support for policies that could damage him politically.
In a nationally broadcast news conference—his first in nearly two and one half months—Carter said he supported effec- tive Federal Reserve Board to tighten credit.
Carter said bringing rising prices under control remained a top priority.
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