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| 2004
NCGA President Dee Vaughan |
NCGA’s
Vaughan Meets at White House to Discuss Energy Bill (10-02-03)
In his second day as president
of the National Corn Growers Association, Dee Vaughan participated
today in a roundtable with White House officials to discuss the energy
bill.
Vaughan was one of seven
representing various industries to discuss their stake in the energy
bill with Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, Chief of Staff Andrew
Card and National Economic Council Director Steve Friedman.
“I said we appreciate
the leadership of administration and that under the president’s
watch we’ve added 1 billion gallons of ethanol production,”
he told the group.
Vaughan reported that Card
told the roundtable energy policy has been ignored for 20 years and
the administration is intent on delivering an energy policy that includes
a renewable fuels standard (RFS).
“I also said NCGA
is not only interested in helping supply national energy needs through
an RFS and ethanol, agriculture is also a consumer of energy in the
form of natural gas used for fertilizer, irrigation, grain drying
and diesel for our tractors and combines,” Vaughan said, “and
the energy crunch of natural gas has impacted many areas of the national
economy.”
Other roundtable members
included an independent owner-operator truck driver, a chief of the
Ute Indian Reservation in Colorado, a utility worker from, a landfill
operator, foundry worker, an independent oil and gas operator and
a power company lineman.
Last reviewed
October 2, 2003