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Originally published in 1996, the Ethanol Fact Book is prepared each new Congress to provide public policy makers, industry leaders, the media, related industries, and consumers with a historic and current foundation of peer-reviewed and resource-based knowledge about ethanol. Since the first Ethanol Fact Book was published, ethanol has assumed an increasingly important role in the American energy mix. The industry has increased annual production capacity to more than 11 billion gallons per year, with billions more under development. These ethanol plants have pumped billions of dollars into the American economy, stemming the massive transfer of wealth to foreign countries resulting from our addiction to oil. In so doing, a resurgence in rural America was seen. And, along with the ethanol plants springing up from America’s cornfields, a technology revolution is preparing, that promises to dramatically expand the base for ethanol production. Municipal, forest, and agriculture wastes are close to commercial viability as ethanol feedstocks. The efficiency of ethanol production increases every day, with more ethanol being produced and less energy being used to produce it.

Added on 8 July 2010
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