The facts about ethanol are clear as the liquid itself. Ethanol is good for the environment. Ethanol is good for farmers and city dwellers.
Ethanol is good for America s independence from foreign oil.
Counting all the production costs - like the cost of growing corn and the cost of defending the Persian Gulf, it is cheaper to produce ethanol than gasoline. Ethanol added to our gasoline reduces the harmful emissions that contribute to air pollution. This is critically important to the more than 100 counties that have not yet met the current clean air standards. In these counties, primarily large urban areas, controls on the emissions from stationary sources like utilities have been insufficient. They must now aggressively pursue emissions from mobile sources like cars and trucks.