Below you will find ethanol position statement summaries of the front running candidates. These are not complete statements of their positions, but rather summaries of their positions on ethanol prepared from the information available in the popular press and submitted by the campaigns. This information does not imply endorsement or opposition of any of the presidential candidates, but rather is provided to help Missouri voters in their decision making. The omission of information from the other candidates is not meant to imply anything other than information regarding their positions were not available at press time. That is why I support ethanol.
Ethanol helps our farmers and makes our air cleaner.
I believe that we need to accelerate our search for innovative uses of farm products. As President, I would encourage the development of new technologies for cost-effectively producing ethanol. For many years, Senator McCain has been an outspoken critic of ethanol. He sponsored an amendment to the 1998 highway reauthorization bill that would have removed the federal ethanol program extension. In 1987, I co-sponsored a resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the EPA should encourage states to mandate the use of alternative fuels, such as ethanol, in commercial fleets as part of an air pollution control strategy.