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The Bixby Blaze Page 3 <br /> 40 SOUTHERN MINNESOTA GIVES BIXBY <br /> ENERGY A WARM WELCOME (CONT) <br /> (Continued from page 1) ne means of as- Besides-being"a`pos <br /> sistance dis- silidehome_for a,_ ' <br /> s an incen- cussed was the ! Bixby Energy Sy's <br /> tive to granting of a large pellet"platifr <br /> locate amount of Fari'bault Zs also <br /> their plant in land, with li©me tc>�the Tilt a <br /> southern Min one proposed amiiseiment <br /> nesota,the city r location being in nark Ade. <br /> of Winnebago " direct proximity to an _ . go.. ..''-,,. '‘''Z <br /> has offered tw .• ethanol plant. This <br /> MplsiSt Paul <br /> i ion dollars would give the Bixby were tax incentives and <br /> in funds to as- ',.=i Biomass pellet plant government grants, as <br /> sist Bixby in the ManCcafn e.' easy access to it's well as many others. <br /> "dun md oft — ` " raw materials, For more information on <br /> Owatonna <br /> plant,and other `Nmne6aga while minimizing Representative Gil <br /> forms of assis- transportation Gutknecht and his stance <br /> tance and funding are in costs. Among other incen- on biomass energies, <br /> the works. tives and forms of assis- please visit his website at <br /> tance that were proposed www.house.gov/gutknecht. <br /> • <br /> •"The use of Biomass removed from the at- biomass feedstocks. 'The use of <br /> nergy has the poten- mosphere. The net The use of biomass <br /> tial to greatly reduce emission of carbon feedstocks can also biomass feedstocks <br /> our greenhouse gas dioxide will be zero as help increase profits <br /> emissions. Biomass long as plants con- for the agricultural can also hep <br /> generates about the tinue to be replen- industry."-(National <br /> same amount of car- fished for biomass en- Renewable Energy Labora- ZY6Creaseprofits Or <br /> bon dioxide as fossil ergy purposes. These tory 2003) f <br /> fuels, but every time a energy crops, such as To learn more about the the agricultural <br /> new plant grows, car- fast-growing trees and NREL,please visit their <br /> website at www.nrel.gov <br /> bon dioxide is actually grasses, are called industry. " <br /> CRUDE OIL IMPORTS DECLINE AS PRICES <br /> KEEP GOING UP <br /> .he nation's crude oil vey of industry low,there's <br /> inventories fell by 5.1 analysts per- no limit to <br /> million barrels in De- formed by the , what prices <br /> cember,to a December re- Dow Jones ( , can do." <br /> cord low of 272.8 million bar- New Service ., Sweet, light <br /> rels. The National Petroleum earlier this crude oil <br /> Council has defined anything year. futures for <br /> below 270 million barrels as he drop January <br /> •mg an indicator of low oil in were trading <br /> ipplies. This drop of 5.1 crude oil inventories as high as$33.77 a barrel at <br /> million barrels,or 1.8 percent, prompted New York energy this point,the highest they had <br /> was three times as much as broker Torn Bentz to corn- been this year since the start of <br /> what was expected by a sur- meet,"If inventories stay this the war in Iraq. <br /> 3 <br />