Winning the Race for Renewable Energy

Yet Again another blog describing the possible shortcomings of the US compared to other leading countries around to world in the race for a new renewable source that we can use in our daily lives. Jeff Simmons describes in this article the extent of importance that ethanol is to our economy. By using ethanol it support the biofuel industry and creates 400,000 American jobs, mostly in rural areas where employment opportunities are desperately needed. He continues by explaining the positive benefits in using ethanol which are reduces carbon monoxide and other toxic emissions from vehicles, thereby causing less air pollution. What’s really appealing about this source of energy is how easy it is to grow in our own US soil which cuts off the string we have on foreign oil. The downfall to it all is that on December 31st congress is going to rule on the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit that helps support the growth of ethanol production in the U.S. With fingers crossed hopefully it’ll it passed again.

Simmons and I are very similar to how we feel about this subject. US always been a country where it will exceed in everything it wants to but when it comes to a topic like this it is always a few steps back from the rest of the competition.The only short coming of this article is that I wish Simmons would of went into more detail in how the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit pushes for more ethanol use because at a public level I really don’t see a lot of use for ethanol if it isn’t for commercial work, where is a area that needs to be touched upon but is only a faction to the whole.