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The time for cellulasic ethanol has arrived

When we first started telling people 12 years ago that we were going to make fuel from agricultural waste, they thought we were nuts. We wondered why? Personally we think it's nuts to use our food supply to drive our cars.

Biomass-to-energy is a concept that has been around from time immemorial. The use of biomass for transportation purposes really began in earnest when the railroads first opened the West, with trains burning wood as their primary fuel. Soon this was replaced with a fossil hydrocarbon (coal) that was much easier to mine and transport. Coal was then replaced by other hydrocarbons, gasoline and diesel. Another phase of displacement, with bio-fuels supplementing the combustion of fossil hydrocarbons, is now a fact of life. Ethanol has become the “oxygenator” for unleaded gasoline creating much cleaner burning combustion and fewer tailpipe emissions.

PanGan Global PLC is a British Corporation with a head office in Arkansas and operations in California. Our first refinery will be located in the heart of America's largest rice producing state Stuttgart, Arkansas. Arkansas plants approximately 1.3 million acres of rice making the state the largest rice producer in the US. California produces about 18% of the rice grown in the United States; planting approximately about 550,000 acres annually. Texas, Louisiana and Missouri also produce large quantities of rice. In Arkansas and California 1 acre yields approximately 8000 pounds of rice, 5000 pounds of waste rice straw and 1000 pounds of waste rice hulls.

Pan Gen Global spent over 12 years developing a patented process that will produce ethanol, silica/sodium oxide and lignin from waste rice straw, waste rice hulls and other agricultural waste. This will be the 'Holy Grail' of the petro/ethanol industry. We believe that this gigantic global resource can reduce greenhouse emissions, stimulate our economy and help farmers reduce costs. Remember when oil hit over $140.00 per barrel? That scared the whole world. Costs of transporting food and other sundries were beginning to escalate to unheard of proportions. The impact on thousands of industries would have been devastating. No one was ready for the consequences. This will happen again and next time we must be better prepared. We absolutely must develop new renewable energy sources to survive the next wave.

We have designed our process and refinery in such a way that they can be easily duplicated and constructed, utilizing many readily available equipment components. This bodes well for a quick and rapid expansion plan into other states and countries.

Our standard facility will consume approximately 240,000 tons of waste biomass annually, producing 12.5 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol and 152,000 tons of silicates such as silica sodium oxide.

Ethanol sells as a commodity priced somewhat pegged to oil. Prices have ranged from $1.41per gallon to $3.36 per gallon. California imports approximately 1,100,000,000, 1.1 billion gallons annually. Silica/sodium oxide is a widely used ingredient with applications in the oil and gas drilling industry, micro electronics, high quality glass, paper industry, detergent and soap producers and for the production of gels, catalysts and zeolytes. When we last checked Silica Sodium Oxide was selling for $400.00 USD per ton. As it turns out we might actually make more revenue on the silica. Great news for our investors.

Here's some more great news. Our refinery is going to be less than a mile up the road from Riceland. They have the largest rice mill in the world. The Arkansas Development Corporation is going to provide 1.5 million in funding to build a road that will handle the 8,000 trucks that will be coming and going from our facility yearly. We have also been awarded $2,000,000 from the Arkansas Department of Agriculture. In addition we have numerous other grants worth several millions in the advanced approval stages. We hope to announce those details within 90 days.

On the International front we have some excellent prospects. Today there is a burgeoning middle class estimated at about 400 million people in China and about 350 million in India. Analysts tell us it is considered correct to assume these figures will rise by about 18%. Both are large rice producing countries in desperate need of fuel. There is a need for speed as China licenses about 25,000 new vehicles weekly. The fossil fuel required this kind of growth is unimaginable. Both countries are already engineering E-85 vehicles that will run on ethanol.

A delegation from China has already come to meet with us. They were very impressed to say the least. We will be speaking with them again. Our main priority now is to get the Stuttgart refinery built and producing as quickly as possible.