Growers Asked to Join Grassroots Ethanol Efforts
Tara Chandra with Growth Energy spends much of her time working in the organization’s public policy sector. She helps with their social media efforts and other educational efforts as well as helps their member’s with their policy and communication efforts. Chandra was at the 2013 Commodity Classic that took place in Kissimmee, Florida talking to growers from across the country in an effort to build their grassroots membership.
One area Chandra said she received a lot of questions about how to get more E15 at the pump. She said growers and consumers alike need to continue to ask their retailer to offer E15. Once the retailer is on the hook, organizations like Growth Energy can help them navigate the process of selling E15. At their booth Growth Energy featured one of their Flex-Fuel pumps that allow retailers to sell E10, E15 or E85 among other mid-level ethanol blends.
Chandra said Growth Energy will be all over the country this year spreading the good word about ethanol and encourages growers to join them in their efforts.
Listen to Jamie’s interview with Tara Chandra: Growers Asked to Join Grassroots Ethanol Efforts
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Michael J. Marsalek
Many, if not most, Americans support Ethanol research but are strongly opposed to subsidizing the manufacture of Ethanol from agricultural products that are in the human food chain at any level. Unless the process of making corn ethanol has recently changed dramatically, for each unit of energy it takes to produce corn ethanol, less than two units of energy are returned making it highly inefficient and entirely too costly to stand on its own without subsidies and mandated use. To compound the problem, the militar buys ethanol & biofuels just to get rid of supplies becase no one else can afford to buy it. For example, the Green Navy recently fueled up with biodiesel ( which is primarily conventional diesel ) at a cost of $26.00 per gallon instead of fueling with conventonal diesel at $3.50 per gallon. The Air Force recently purchase aviation grade bio fuels at a cost of nearly $60.00 per gallon. Due to recent technological advances in exploration & production techniques, the U.S. has ready access to more than a 100 year supply of clean burning, highly efficient natural gas. When ethanol & biofuels can compete with natural gas on their own without government subsidies and mandates, renewable fuels will be accepted by the majority of taxpayers.
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