Issues Current Issues Ethanol Genetically Modified Organisms Environment Ethanol Ethanol offers the solution to fuel shortages, polluted air and depressed farm economies. Auto exhaust adds to the air pollution of many of our country's cities. Oil is a finite resource, and foreign markets have proven an unstable source. Transportation is a key factor in our oil dependence. Farmers have found a way to help reduce carbon monoxide emissions from a renewable resource.
Ethanol is an alcohol product produced from the starch portion of a kernel of corn.
It contains nearly twice as much oxygen as any other gasoline additive. Each bushel of corn can produce 2.5 gallons of ethanol fuel. Only the starch from the corn is used to make ethanol, leaving the protein and valuable products for other uses. The more oxygen in a fuel, the cleaner and more efficiently it burns. Ethanol blended fuels burn cleaner and pollute less, therefore reduces air pollution.