RENEW & Corn Growers support ethanol in gasoline

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Brett Hulsey, President of Better Environmental Solutions, an environmental health consulting firm, delivered testimony in support of ethanol in gasoline. His testimony began:

I am speaking on behalf of RENEW Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Corn Growers. We urge you to adopt SB 15 for cleaner air, more energy security, lower gas prices, and to help our farmers and workers.

We have a simple choice for our energy future: get more oil from the Mideast or grow more fuel in the Midwest. Homegrown fuels like ethanol are a better, safer environmental solution to our energy challenges than drilling for more oil.

To summarize, 10% ethanol (E10) blend reduces air pollution and cancer risks, helps create jobs in Wisconsin, support our family farmers, and could eventually make Wisconsin and America energy more independent. This bill is the first in the nation to set a goal of 20% ethanol from natural sources like cellulose, prairie grass, and wood waste by 2020 and sets up a process to achieve that goal.

Read his full testimony on the Web page of RENEW's News & Views.