Citizen Action is a national consumer watchdog organization. Grassley will join other senators, including Sens. An outspoken advocate for ethanol, Grassley serves as a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee.
Ethanol is good for farmers and jobs in rural America.
It's good for the environment. And, in terms of our fight against dependence on foreign energy, the ethanol tax incentive is a bargain. Today I co-hosted with Senator Wellstone of Minnesota and America's largest consumer group Citizen Action, a symposium on America's growing and dangerous dependence on foreign oil. Foreign oil carries a heavy cost. In 1987, a former Secretary of the Navy estimated that the total cost of protecting our Persian Gulf oil supply line to be about 20 percent of our total military budget.