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Senate Hears Experts on Food, Feed and Fuel
US - Members of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee traveled to Nebraska Monday for a hearing on food, feed and fuel production. The hearing drew participants from around the Corn Belt, many of whom stressed the importance of corn ethanol as an alternative to foreign oil and part of a broad energy solution that fuels the domestic economy.Tim Recker, president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association, testified on behalf of his organization as well as the National Corn Growers Association, the Nebraska Corn Growers Association and the Nebraska Corn Board.
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Tim Recker, president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association
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“The world is hungry for both protein and petroleum, and the American corn grower can help satisfy both in the form of energy from ethanol and protein from corn-fed red meat and poultry,” Recker said. “Across rural America, an industry is still in development to turn our corn into ethanol. In the process, it is creating jobs that give our young people a chance to come back to their home communities. It is improving the tax base that supports our local schools and government services. It is pumping renewed economic life into the Main Streets and prompting new local businesses.”
Also among those testifying on behalf of corn ethanol was Jim Jenkins, chairman of the Nebraska Ethanol Board.
“Ethanol, in addition to the rapidly growing wind industry, offers our nation a significant opportunity to begin the important diversification our energy portfolio away from fossil fuels,” Jenkins said. “This diversification of risk in our nation’s energy portfolio is creating wealth in our own country and beginning to stem, if every so slightly, the massive transfer of energy dollars to other countries, now totaling over $700 billion dollars annually.”
"The focus here should be on the big picture,” said Sen. Ben Nelsen, D-Neb. “Ethanol is the only domestically-produced alternative to oil-based transportation fuels. It is helping us in a big way to stretch the gasoline supply, save American consumers money at the pump, create jobs in rural communities, improve our rural and national economy—and to top it off—help wean us off imported oil.”
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