The Daschle-Lugar legislation also includes safeguards to ensure that progress made in reducing air pollution will be maintained through the use of cleaner fuels, including ethanol. The renewable fuel standard will stimulate additional ethanol production and encourage the use of other crops and biomass derived fuels. The production of these renewable fuels will help reduce our dependence on imported oil while stimulating new jobs. The percentage of renewable fuel required in motor fuel would increase annually over the next decade. Ethanol demand is expected to triple within ten years if the provision is enacted.
Efforts are underway to increase domestic energy supplies for the transportation sector.
Ethanol Now provides information about all aspects of Nebraska's ethanol industry, it presents a current look at the economic impact of ethanol plants, the role of ethanol in clean fuel programs, the process of ethanol production, the evolution of the ethanol industry and the role of Nebraskans in the U.S. ethanol industry. Ethanol Now is being distributed to Nebraska Senators, ethanol Producers, ethanol advocacy organizations and schools in Nebraska. The Nebraska Ethanol Board developed Ethanol Now as a means of providing current information about ethanol related issues and the contributions of Nebraska's rapidly growing ethanol industry to the state economy. To obtain your copy of Ethanol Now or for more information about ethanol industry issues, ethanol plant expansion or related legislative issues, please contact the Nebraska Ethanol Board.