HAVE A GREAT FRIDAY READERS!

Guess everyone has heard by now that Mo Claiborne, Brockers and Ruben Randall have all declared for the NFL draft today. Then, there are rumblings that several others may declare early also or transfer. There were several players who said they were "very disappointed" that Coach Miles didn't even give Jarred Lee a chance to play in the National championship game Monday night. I hear that LSU AD Joe Aleva has been bombarded with letters and e-mails about the teams total lack of performance in the game. Saban and his staff TOTALLY out coached Miles! It was downright embarassing. I spoke with a friend of mine in Fairhope, Alabama this afternoon and she said she was embarassed for LSU..........coming from a Bama fan?

Oh, maybe baseball will do better? Now, back to ethanol.

Here's an article I found about a company that wants to build an ethanol pipeline from the midwest to the east. I don't know what type of materials they propose to use as ethanol cannot be transferred in conventional pipelines because it is corrosive to steel. Here's the article:

Ethanol pipeline on hold

Intelligencer Journal
Lancaster New Era

Jan 10, 2012 22:57

By AD CRABLE
Staff Writer

A proposed ethanol pipeline that could cross seven Lancaster County townships has been put on hold.

The nation's first ethanol pipeline, a $3.5 billion, 1,800-mile project called the Independent Pipeline, was proposed in 2010 by POET Ethanol Products, the nation's largest corn-based ethanol producer, and Magellan Midstream Partners, a pipeline-building company.

It would link the Midwest's considerable ethanol-producing region to East Coast refineries.

But the project hinged on a federal loan guarantee which has not been forthcoming from Congress, despite several bills.

Said POET spokesman Nathan Schock, "We continue to believe that it is a viable project with tremendous benefits for the country, but with little prospects for a federal loan guarantee in the near future, we are currently focused on other efforts."

When unveiled, the project proposed that the 20-inch-diameter pipeline follow an existing petroleum pipeline right of way owned by Buckeye Partners.

The Buckeye pipeline runs through Mount Joy, Rapho, East Hempfield, Manheim, Upper Leacock, Earl and Salisbury townships.

Ethanol currently is transported across the country by tanker trucks and by rail. Ethanol cannot be used in existing petroleum pipelines because of its corrosive nature.

acrable@lnpnews.com

Read more: http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/566422_Ethanol-pipeline-on-hold.html#ixzz1j7h2UOlp

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