In The News Media

Click here to view media responses prepared by the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council.

Conference Call

On May 28, NCGA and others held a conference call with news media about corn and ethanol. Click here to review some of the stories that were published.

Chicago Tribune

On May 6, The Chicago Tribune published the article “Food vs. fuel a global myth” by Robert Zubrin and Gal Luft. "In recent weeks, a flood of reports and statements has claimed that the world's biofuel programs—in particular the U.S. corn ethanol effort—is starving poor people around the globe. Even the UN's special rapporteur for the Right to Food decried biofuel production as 'a crime against humanity.'
It seems so obvious: With so much corn being turned into fuel, food shortages must inevitably result, and biofuel programs must be the cause. However, that's completely untrue."
Click here for the article.

BusinessWeek

On May 1, BusinessWeek published the article “Is Ethanol Getting a Bum Wrap?” The magazine’s senior correspondent says corn ethanol isn't the villain critics contend, but shifting to other crops is critical. Click here for the article.

Washington Post

On April 21, 2008, Lester Brown and Jonathan Lewis published a column in the Washington Post.

Brown/Lewis column: “Ethanol’s Failed Promise”

NCGA’s response to the Washington Post”

New York Times

On April 7, 2008, columnist Paul Krugman attacked ethanol in a column titled “Grains Gone Wild”

Krugman’s column

NCGA’s response to the New York Times

Time magazine

In its April 7, 2008 issue, Time magazine took a look at deforestation in Brazil and wrongly blamed it on U.S. corn ethanol production.