America's unemployment is running more than 10 percent. Our state and local governments are cutting more than fat from local budgets -- they are cutting down to the bone. And yet we have a national energy policy that continues to send our hard-earned money overseas for foreign oil.
We have an alternative, and it is available today, not some far-off time in the future. The United States needs to start taking ethanol seriously.
Ethanol is cleaner than gasoline, and because we can produce it from crops, it won't run out. Oil is a finite resource.
One day that will run out. And in the meantime it will be harder to extract, (and it will become) more expensive and dirtier for our air and water.
Ethanol is an advanced fuel. It is has far fewer emissions than gasoline, and it's sustainable and renewable.
Finally, we can create jobs here in the United States -- good jobs that cannot be outsourced. What other industry is going to create jobs for our educated young people to stay in rural areas, close to their homes and families?
I'm talking about agricultural science and industrial, mechanical and chemical engineering jobs.
I know that by simply moving from E10 to E15 we can create more than 136,000 new jobs here in the United States. We should immediately begin to blend E15, and manufacture even more Flex Fuel cars and trucks to run on midlevel blends. Ethanol can help our environment, it can reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and it can create jobs.
source: detnews
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