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Biomass Ethanol Production and Demand.(Brief Article)

Outlook for Biomass Ethanol Production and Demand published by the EIA discusses the state of biomass ethanol production and demand. Ethanol has been used as fuel in the United States since at least 1908. Although early efforts to sustain a U.S. ethanol program failed, oil supply disruptions in the Middle East and environmental concerns over the use of lead as a gasoline octane booster renewed interest in ethanol in the late 1970s. Ethanol production in the United States grew from 175 million gallons in 1980 to 1.4 billion gallons in 1998, with support from Federal and State ethan

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