#GREENFAIL: Georgians on the hook for failed ethanol facility. “Range Fuels, the failed wood-to-ethanol factory in southeastern Georgia that cost taxpayers $70 million, was sold Tuesday for pennies on the dollar. Its buyer is a company that is backed by the same man who bankrolled and helped secure government loans for Range Fuels before it went bust last year.” It’s like Georgia’s own Solyndra.