{"id":2848,"date":"2007-03-30T03:57:03","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T03:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2848"},"modified":"2007-03-30T03:57:03","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T03:57:03","slug":"corn_is_not_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2848","title":{"rendered":"Corn is Not the Future of US Ethanol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/scienceNews\/idUSN2830990020070328\">Timothy Gardner<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>New technology to make ethanol from crops such as grasses and trees instead of corn could ease price spikes of the grain within a decade, a U.S. Energy Department official said on Wednesday.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to predict what the price of corn is going to do, but I will tell you the future of biofuels is not based on corn,&#8221; U.S. Deputy Energy Secretary Clay Sell said in an interview.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nOutput of U.S. ethanol, which is mostly made from corn, is expected to jump in 2007 from 5.6 billion gallons per year to 8 billion gpy, as nearly 80 bio-refineries sprout up.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Gardner: New technology to make ethanol from crops such as grasses and trees instead of corn could ease price spikes of the grain within a decade, a U.S. Energy Department official said on Wednesday. &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to predict what the price of corn is going to do, but I will tell you the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}