Larry Miller
Overland Park, KS (USA)
Role(s):
Jayhawk Ethanol
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Location:
Overland Park
Industry:
Agriculture
Year Founded:
2007
Number Employees:
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Description:
Proposed Ethanol Plant
Handke Farms Feedlot
Muscotah, Kansas
May 2007
Opening thoughts: America is in trouble. We consume one-fourth of the oil in the entire world, yet produce only a fraction of it. Oil imports are killing the Balance of Payments of the US and driving the dollar down. Today the dollar is at it’s lowest point in decades.
What can we do? Conserve? Yes, but that only can go so far with the kind of economy we have. Produce more oil? How? The environmentalists won’t even let us drill on the Alaska North Slope. There is absolutely nothing there except thousands of Caribou and the wolves chasing them! Produce alternate fuels? YES ! If there is anything America can do better than anyone else, is farm. This has been true since the 1800’s and remains true today. Unti