Three percent of America’s energy goes to run sewage and water plants. For a town of close to 30,000 people like Wooster, that translates to close to half a million dollars a year. Quasar Energy, the Ohio company that uses digester technology to turn bio-mass to energy, has brought a new system on line to change that.

The system gets enough energy from solids in the sewage to run the plant for nothing — and reduces the volume of those solids enough to make the EPA happy.

”“To go one step further,' adds Quasar CEO Mel Kurtz, "if we convert the bio-gas to bio-methane and compress it, now we have motor vehicle fuel.  This facility can produce approximately 3,500 gallons of motor fuel equivalent per day.”

So, the city could run cars, sanitation trucks, buses and so forth for pretty much nothing a gallon.