Vilsack Stands On Side Of Ethanol Producers In Renewable Fuel Standard Debate
Date posted - August 18, 2012
Washington, DC — U-S Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack isn’t taking a firm stand on whether the nation’s Renewable Fuels Standard should be put on hold because of the drought.
The mandate helps create a market for corn-based ethanol and other bio-fuels by requiring refiners to blend them into gasoline. Critics, worried about a lack of corn for food and livestock feed, have called for suspending the mandate. Vilsack, a former Iowa Governor, says the standard remains vital for rural economies.
Vilsack says abandoning the standard may not be necessary – or helpful.
Iowa is the nation’s number-one ethanol producer with more than 40 plants online. About 40-percent of the nation’s corn crop currently goes to ethanol.
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I have written to the state legislators for our area, asking them why it is not possible to begin growing industrial hemp to use for cloth, ropes, and ethanol. Its not the stuff people smoke. Its a tall cellulosic plant, after the fibers are removed, it is far better than corn to use for ethanol. Leave the corn for animal feed and corn meal for people. And use hemp to put in the ethanol plant. Corn is needed for feed, and hemp plants can be grown on mediocre land. And it takes far less gasoline to make ethanol hemp.
You forgot the formula. Hemp = pot = illegal