What we need now is a commitment from the Administration to help to develop an electrofarming demonstration project. That is the future. Ethanol is the present and the future. The ethanol industry provides a tremendous opportunity to supply energy to Americans. Although the U.S. ethanol industry currently has the capacity to produce about 1.6 billion gallons annually, that is only a fraction of the potential energy resources that can drawn from the American agriculture sector.
Ethanol has a greater impact than merely providing energy for our nation.
It also provides increased income for our rural citizens. In addition to the energy benefit, ethanol could represent a tremendous income opportunity for rural America. This trend suggests that much of the income from expanded production would go to those we most want to help, our family farmers. As technology is refined and cultivation of more energy crops are devoted to this purpose, more and more farmers will share in this bounty, across the country. The environmental gains from this increased use of bio-based fuels could also be considerable.