New Obama biofuel? Government waste creates 'trashanol'

USA Today Green House
by Wendy Koch
Feb 15, 2010; 08:56 AM

Trashanol? Two companies, Denmark-based Novozyme and Maryland-based Fiberight, say a Chevy HHR can be powered by E85 fuel, which is 15% gasoline and 85% paper-based ethanol. They take office paper waste and pulp and treat it and then use enzymes to convert it into sugars that are fermented into ethanol. They say the fuel emits up to 90% less carbon dioxide than gas.

Yes, all those thousand-plus-page pieces of legislation can now be turned into a biofuel that the manufacturers say emits up to 90% less carbon dioxide than gasoline.

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