Hoover, Alabama buys cellulosic ethanol for police vehicles

From the Birmingham News:

A Livingston plant has converted wood scraps trucked from Hoover into ethanol that will be used for the first time Thursday to fuel some of the city's police vehicles.

Hoover Mayor Tony Petelos and Gulf Coast Energy CEO and President Mark Warner hail the development as groundbreaking in the conversion of wood waste to automotive fuel on a small commercial scale and in making the west Alabama demonstration plant a leader in advanced biofuel technology that uses wood to make clean-burning fuel.

By Thursday, the city will receive 100 gallons of fuel for use as E85, which is 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline, from the Sumter County plant. Warner believes this is the first commercial transaction in the country, even though the amount is small, to come through "cellulosic gasification."