Dear Sir:

In general, I like the goal of differentiating between good and bad Ethanol, but we don’t have to label the Corn Ethanol people as Evil. Corn Ethanol, like MBDT was a good, noble idea but we later found better things. Sugarcane, Sweet Sorghum, Energy Cane, Jatropha are much better at reducing our carbon footprint. The Corn Farmers are not evil and still could play an important part of reducing the carbon footprint. We can trade corn, dollar for dollar, to Poor, starving Third World Countries for clean and green ethanol and biodiesel.

We need to:
1. Convert future cars to E85.
2. Convert older cars to E85.
3. Repeal import tariff on clean and green foreign ethanol and biodiesel from jatropha and sugarcane.
4. Trade corn, dollar for dollar, for clean and green ethanol and biodiesel from jatropha and sugarcane.
5. Mix gasoline only with clean and green ethanol from clean and green sources other than Corn. Even mixing it with Cellulosic would be good if they ever get their act together and quit building “pilot plants” and start building production plants.
6. Keep E10 Pumps and start installing E85 pumps all across the country following the Brazil model of reducing carbon emissions 90%.
7. As cars and trucks become modified to E85 Flex Fuel, start raising the mandate to CE20, CE30, CE40, etc. but keep the CE10 pumps for older engines that cant be modified. Do not raise the Ethanol mandates before the cars and trucks are modified. This would be stupid, naïve, and irresponsible. (CE stands for Clean Ethanol, not Cellulosic. They are still scratching their heads waiting for the Big Fat Obama Wedding and Tarp Bailout money.)
8. Build Civilian Stratigic Petroleum Reserves in CA and NY to store Clean and Green E85. This will actually make our country stronger more safe from Gasoline spikes, unlike letting the Gitmo detainees back out on the battlefield. Keep hands off of the Military’s Stratigic Petroleum Reserve to keep us safe.
9. Build an E85 Pipeline from NY to CA.

Chip Daigle
Mandeville, LA