Obama Under Pressure Over Role of Ethanol in Energy Policy

Advanced Biofuel Legislation Passed in Louisiana

Louisiana Enacts the Most Comprehensive Advanced Biofuel Legislation in the Nation

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Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative Benefits Consumers, Farmers and Gas Station Owners with Localized “Field-to-Pump” Strategy

Governor Bobby Jindal has signed into law the Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative, the most comprehensive and far-reaching state legislation in the nation enacted to develop a statewide advanced biofuel industry. Louisiana is the first state to enact alternative transportation fuel legislation that includes a variable blending pump pilot program and a hydrous ethanol pilot program.

Field-to-Pump Strategy

The legislature found that the proper development of an advanced biofuel industry in Louisiana requires implementation of the following comprehensive “field-to-pump” strategy developed by Renergie, Inc.:

(1) Feedstock Other Than Corn

(a) derived solely from Louisiana harvested crops;

(b) capable of an annual yield of at least 600 gallons of ethanol per acre;

(c) requiring no more than one-half of the water required to grow corn;

(d) tolerant to high temperature and waterlogging;

(e) resistant to drought and saline-alkaline soils;

(f) capable of being grown in marginal soils, ranging from heavy clay to light sand;

(g) requiring no more than one-third of the nitrogen required to grow corn, thereby reducing the risk of contamination of the waters of the state; and

(h) requiring no more than one-half of the energy necessary to convert corn into ethanol.

Please feel free to visit the Renergie weblog (www.renergie.wordpress.com) for more information.

Corn Ethanol

I grow corn - lots of it. I sell my crop to ethanol plants wherever I can. I will continue to do so in spite of rhetoric to the contrary. America needs renewable energy and energy independence. We do not need to subsidize Brazil or Arabia. We need to support our farmers and our food supply. There is plenty of corn for both food and fuel but the idea that someone thinks they own my crop and can tell me what to do with it is just plain idiotic. I will grow and sell where I want. The Grocery Mfrs Assn represents companies with huge profits that try to make ethanol a scapegoat for high food prices. Corn sells for 50% of its high this summer - why haven't food prices gone down? It's because the real culprit in high food prices is transportation, marketing, packaging - not the price of corn.

By the way, when was the last time you witnessed a food riot in the US? And as for land conversion to corn - what about land conversion to concrete and buildings? At least land converted to corn can be converted to something else a year later - what about buildings or factories?

Let Obama be Obama

The election is done, he won give everyone what they want.

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Gas price

Corn fuel ethanol policy stinks

Ethanol

We are making huge advances in energy efficiency at the new ethanol plants. We are getting to efficiency approaching 5 to 1 energy return on energy invested. This is even with corn a very energy intensive crop. Ethanol and its production is getting cleaner every day. By allowing the industry to continue to develop we engineer a much greener fuel over time. The subsidies are already working by getting the technology into new plants and slowly gaining market share. Subsidize non-corn ethanol plants more and subsidize small plants using diverse organic feedstocks even more. Small plants have an advantage in ethanol because the feedstocks are local and so are the consumers. Illinois ethanol can be used in Illinois and North Dakota ethanol can be used in North Dakotta. We don't need to ship it around the world.