Jackie Helling
August 19, 2008

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution blog Opinion Talk has posted snippets
of an interview with Murray Campbell, CEO of First United Ethanol.

Campbell defended biofuels on Monday at an event at Atlanta’s Commerce
Club, entitled “Biofuels in Georgia: Fact, Fiction and Future.”

He talked about water usage and other common concerns about biofuels.

“Talk about water usage. … It takes 44 gallons to refine a gallon of
gasoline. It takes three to four gallons of water to refine a gallon
of ethanol, and 87 percent of the corn in this country is grown on dry
land. Grant you, we grow a lot of irrigated crops down in our area,
and one of the assets for our plant is the ability to grow irrigated
corn. But our yield is significantly higher than the national average
of corn grown dry.”
Take a look.
http://www.goodfuels.org/2008/08/ceo-of-first-united-ethanol-in-ajc/