Vernon Township, up near Lake Erie, like many areas of Pennsylvania has farmland to burn and is struggling with the idea of building ethanol plants. Northwestern Pennsylvania was the nation’s petroleum pioneer.

Crawford County ethanol plant still doesn't add up for experts
- Meadville Tribune

James Dunn from Penn State University recommends. As Dunn sees it, the bottom line on corn ethanol is simple. “I wouldn’t do it in Pennsylvania,” he said, summing up his presentation to the task force. “The math doesn’t work.”

Keystone Ethanol Energy Producers, a company formed to bring a corn-based ethanol plant to Crawford or Mercer counties, has a consultant coming in September to help choose a site.