Ethanol

[Renewable]

What is Ethanol? Ethanol is a high-octane, cleaner burning renewable fuel produced from plant sugars.  It is used as a blend component in 80% of the nation's gasoline supply today and increasingly as a gasoline replacement in the form of E85.

There are 200 ethanol facilities operating in 26 different states.  They get 2.8 gallons of ethanol and 17 pounds of livestock feed from each bushel of grain used. US farmers are producing more corn than is demanded by markets for food, feed and fuel. They are doing that on fewer acres and producing more bushel per acre than ever before.  Ethanol production today helps support nearly 400,000 jobs across the entire economy, many of which are in small rural communities often hardest hit in the bad economic times. Ethanol increases oru economic opportunity, reduces oil imports and improves our carbon footprint.  Ethanol is blended into 80% of the nation's gasoline, there are more than 2,300 gas stations now offering E85 (85% ethanol, 15% gasoline) and 8 million flex-fuel vehicles designed to us ethanol blends above 10%.