Congress takes first steps in renewable fuel - Part 2

With Congress, they are calling for a huge increase in the amount of Ethanol the nation is using.

Much of it would be made from Corn, as it is made today, and the country is producing about 7 billion gallons a year now.

The large increase in Ethanol has reshaped agricultural markets and corn prices are soaring.
Congress wants to double production to 15 billion gallons per year.

Congresses bill calls for the country to use, by 2022, an additional 21 billion gallons a year of Ethanol or other bio fuels produced by using the energy contained in biological materials as straw, tree trimmings, corn stubble, and even garbage, material known as biomass.