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Senators' Letter to VP Cheney
Advocates a Key
Role for Renewable Fuels in Energy Policy (5-16-01)
NCGA applauds Sens. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Tim Johnson (D-SD) for sending
a
letter to Vice President Dick Cheney today asserting their strong
support for renewable fuels such as ethanol in national energy policy.
Hagel and Johnson led the effort to advance a prominent role for ethanol
in U.S. energy policy, and they were joined by 16 additional senators
who
signed the letter to Cheney.
The letter seeks establishment of a federal renewable fuels requirement
for motor fuels that would replace 3 percent of the energy used in such
fuels by 2011. Meeting that requirement with ethanol would require annual
production of 9 billion gallons, which would fulfill NCGA's goal of
tripling the U.S. ethanol industry during the next decade.
A renewable fuels requirement would also achieve the displacement of
9
billion gallons of gasoline annually or about 500,000 to 600,000 barrels
of crude oil each day, which promotes the energy security this nation
seeks and that ethanol producers pledged. Corn-derived ethanol delivers
energy security because it is a domestically produced, renewable fuel
source that is immune to manipulation by foreign governments and cartels.
Last reviewed
May 16, 2001
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