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Ethanol means more to Nebraska and the United States as a whole than reducing the dependence on foreign oil or making a clean burning, renewable fuel available to everyone.
“It’s about small town diners, grocery stores, schools, libraries and churches,” said Don Hutchens, executive director of the Nebraska Corn Board. “Ethanol, by being produced across rural Nebraska and rural America, benefits all of these community-based businesses and groups. It does this by generating economic activity and taxes, which touches nearly every business, school and organization in town.”
For additional information on the economic impact of ethanol, click here.
Besides the economic benefits to rural communities created by the clean-burning fuel, ethanol adds to our fuel supply and reduces oil imports. This saves us all money at the pump – about 40-50 cents per gallon, according to several studies.
Did you know the energy balance of ethanol is 2-3 times more favorable than earlier estimates? And that 13 gallons of ethanol are produced for each gallon of petroleum in the production life cycle for corn ethanol? Click here for details.
Governor Dave Heineman declared September Renewable Fuels Month at Husker Harvest Days on Sept. 10. Governor Heineman is shown in this photo after the ceremony with Gregg Fujan, chairman of the Nebraska Soybean Board (left), and Jon Holzfaster, chairman of the Nebraska Corn Board (right). For more information on the declaration, click here.
To help spread the positive news about ethanol, the Nebraska Corn Board is running two radio spots this month in Omaha, Lincoln and across the state. These spots feature “Filler-up Phil” who answers listener questions about ethanol. To listen to the first spot, which talks about an “ethanol refund”, click here. To listen to the second spot, click here.
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