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Genesee and Wyoming

May 1, 2008

Train Cuts Ribbon at Cascade Grain

    BREAKING THROUGH THE BANNER celebrating clean energy and good jobs for Oregon, a locomotive "cut the ribbon" as it approached the new Cascade Grain ethanol plant at the Port Westward Energy Park north of Clatskanie Monday, as scores of Columbia County public officials looked on. City councils from throughout the county, as well as state economic development officials, and Columbia County Commissioners Tony Hyde and Rita Bernhard rode the train Monday along with officers of the Portland & Western Railroad, and its parent company, Genesee & Wyoming. Read more

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Sari Swick - St Helens

Portland, OR

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Apr 30, 2008
 
If ethanol cost more to produce, more to buy, makes more pollution, and gives us lower gas mileage than plain gasoline what's the "plus" to using it? Also, what about the energy used to train this stuff and produce it? The "Plus" can't be the dramatic increase in almost all groceries that we've recently experienced.
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North Aurora, IL

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May 1, 2008
 
Its quite possible that ethanol is the biggest scam ever perpetrated on the public. The only ones who will benefit from this are the agricultural giants like ADM.
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