"Poop to pump"

This is the kind of thinking that I like when it comes to creating alternative fuels without using an equivilant amount of fossil fuels.

One company's drive to locate domestic sources of energy is taking a turn into the barnyard.

Panda Ethanol has secured nearly $160-million in financing to build an ethanol plant that will be fired by mountains of manure in Hereford, a cattle town in the Texas panhandle.

This doesn't mean that I'm on the ethanol bandwagon. It is one small step in the right direction, though. I can see potentially huge NIMBY problems popping up with poo, though.