Iowa Oil Oil-Sands Production 
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
Made from the residue left behind after production of gasoline, plastics, and other materials, asphalt still commands $700-800 per ton, or half the price of gasoline at $1,500 per ton, Wen estimates. In Iowa, for example, scientists are making a corn-based bioasphalt from residue left after the production of ethanol.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 30, 2013
Jerald Schnoor, also a professor in the departments of civil & environmental engineering and occupational & environmental health at the University of Iowa, has written an editorial for the journal in which he calls the Keystone XL pipeline a “ pipeline to nowhere ”. Use of coal, oil, and natural gas has to stop (in that order).
Green Car Congress
APRIL 28, 2011
While a number of studies have tired to assess the water consumption required for ethanol production, the results differ by orders of magnitude, with estimates ranging from 1.1 to 335 L/vehicle kilometer traveled (VKT) for Iowa and from 59 to 214 L/VKT for Nebraska. Click to enlarge. Comparison with fossil fuels. and from 0.29
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