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America’s Homegrown Fuel
GrowthEnergy.org
THE FACTS ABOUT ETHANOL
Every day, homegrown ethanol is helping America become more energy independent. Used as a supplement in gasoline, American ethanol offsets 42 million gallons of foreign oil a day, helping reduce prices at the pump. Higher
blends of ethanol are used by millions of vehicles already on the road, and that number is growing. Renewable American ethanol is paving the way to a cleaner,
better future. Learn more at GrowthEnergy.org.
Contents2Ethanol: America’s Energy
3 Fueling the United States
4A Pathway: The Renewable Fuel
Standard 5 Cellulosic Ethanol: The 50-
State Solution 6 A Good Investment
for America
7 Future Ethanol Production
8 Historical Average: U.S. Corn Yields
9 Where Does America’s Corn Go?
10 Your Dollar at the Grocery Store
11Gasoline, not Food Prices on the Rise
12 Livestock & Poultry Producers are Better Off
13 Farmers are Better Off
14 Ethanol: Fuel and Food
15 Environmental Advancements
16 Small Impact: Ethanol’s Slice of the Corn Supply
17 USDA Conservation Expenditures
18 Ethanol’s Energy Balance
19 Lap After Lap on American Ethanol
20 What Do You Think is Causing High Gas Prices?
21 Hidden Costs of Oil
22 The World According to Oil
23 The World According to Farming
24 Poised to Grow
25 Ethanol Cleans Our Environment While Oil Pollutes It
Source information and methodologycan be found at GrowthEnergy.org/flipbook.
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Ethanol: America’s EnergyCleaner, Greener and Homegrown
Ethanol is America’s renewable fuel — reliable, clean, homegrown, affordable and available. Using ethanol as a supplement in gasoline reduces greenhouse gas emissions, decreases our dependence on foreign oil, creates American jobs and revitalizes our rural communities.
Renewable biofuels like ethanol are paving the way towards U.S. energy independence. Currently, ethanol displaces 42 million gallons of imported oil per day.
In 2013, ethanol saved American consumers more than $100 billion. Imagine how much more we can save with higher blends like E15, while sending less money overseas and keeping more investment at home.
New innovations are constantly improving ethanol production, making it more energy and resource efficient, and allowing the fuel to be produced from almost anything, from corn cobs to plant materials to waste, meaning ethanol will never run out.
With rapidly growing energy demands, our nation must invest in homegrown biofuels that are cleaner, cheaper and offer a more reliable supply than fossil fuels. Imagine all the good we can do for our economy, our environment and our future by increasing the blend of ethanol in our fuel supply.
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SOURCE: EIA, adjusted to reflect gasoline yields.
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Fueling the United StatesU.S. Ethanol and Crude Oil Imports
APathway:The Renewable Fuel StandardHow America is Fueling Its Future
SOURCE: EPA
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1 METRIC TON 1.1 TONS; SOURCE: NREL
Cellulosic Ethanol: The 50-State SolutionA Variety of Renewable Biomass Can be Converted to Ethanol
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A Good Investment for AmericaEthanol is a Win-Win for Everyone
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Ethanol Industry to the Economy of the United States 2014; CBO; Farm Commodity programs cost $16.9 billion in 2006 and $4.9 billion in 2012. EIA; Louisiana State University, The Impact of Ethanol Production on the U.S. Gasoline Market 2012, Industry Analysis
Future Ethanol ProductionPotential Growth
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SOURCE: ERS/USDA
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Historical AveragesAs Technology Evolves, Corn Yields Continue to Rise
Where Does America’s Corn Go?We’ve Got Plenty to Go Around
SOURCE: ERS/USDA Feed Grains Database
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Your Dollar at the Grocery StoreFood Price Increase: What’s the Real Story?
SOURCES: ERS/USDA, Industry Analysis, EIA and Nebraska Corn Board
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Gasoline, not Food Prices on the RiseConsumer Price Index
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Livestock & Poultry Producers are Better OffMargin Over Feed Costs are Up
SOURCE: USDA
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Farmers are Better OffNet Farm Income is Up
SOURCE: USDA
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Ethanol: Fuel and FoodFeed, Fuel and More from Ethanol Production
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Environmental AdvancementsInnovation Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions
SOURCE: Argonne National Laboratory (Note: these current percentages do not include land use change)
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Small ImpactU.S. Ethanol’s Slice of the Domestic Corn Supply
Only 17.5 percent of net corn acres are used for renewable fuelsBiofuel production only removes the starch from the corn. The protein, fiber and oil are returned to the animal feed supply in the biofuel feed co-product known as Distiller’s Grains (DDGs). Distiller’s Grains amount to one- third of the corn used in ethanol production. Distiller’s Grains also replace soybean meal in feed rations, meaning there is less demand for soybeans, requiring fewer acres planted to soybeans.
2010-11 Crop Year Corn Acreage >>• Actual “net acres” used for ethanol are less than 50
percent of gross acres.• Only the starch is used for ethanol.• DDGs displace corn and soybean meal.• Corn yields are three times soybean yields.SOURCE: Richard Nelson, Ph.D., Kansas State University
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Carryout
Exports
U.S. Feed (with DDGs)
Food & Industrial
Net Corn Ethanol
USDA Conservation ExpendituresFarmers Continue to Expand Conservation Efforts
SOURCES: ERS analysis of USDA Office of Budget and Policy Analysis (OBPA) data
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Ethanol’s Energy BalanceNet Energy Production Increases
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SOURCES: USDA; Mueller and Kwik, 2012 Corn Ethanol: Emerging Plant Energy and Emerging Technologies, University of Illinois
Lap After Lap on American EthanolAmerica’s Renewable Fuel is Revolutionizing a Sport
241 LAPS
SIX MILLION MILES EQUATES TO
AROUND THE EARTH
NASCAR® is approaching six million competition miles on Sunoco Green E15™, a biofuel blended with 15% American Ethanol made from American-grown corn that reduces emissions.
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What Do You Think is Causing High Gas Prices?Gas Prices Tied to Crude Oil, not Ethanol or Renewable Identification Numbers
SOURCE: OPIS
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Hidden Costs of OilWhat Are You Really Paying For at the Pump?
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$353b
SOURCES: Center for American Progress, National Resources Defense Council, Office of Management and Budget, Im- ported Oil and U.S. National Security, Rand Corporation 2009 Energy Information Administration. Based on 2013 U.S. consumption levels of 3.6 billion barrels of imported oil and the EIA’s 2012 average price of imported oil per barrel of $98.12
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VENEZUELA
SAUDIARABIA ARAB EMIRATES
CANADA
UNITED
RUSSIA
ALGERIA LIBYA
NIGERIA
UNITED STATES
KAZAKHSTAN
CHINA
BRAZIL ANGOLA
MEXICO
The World According to Oil
SOURCE: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2013
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CHINA
BANGLADESH
UNITED STATES
MEXICO
EUROPEAN UKRAINE
UNIONTURKEY
INDIA
BRAZIL
ARGENTINA
RUSSIA
CANADA
INDONESIA
AUSTRALIA
PAKISTAN
VIETNAM
BURMA
THAILAND
NIGERIA
MALAYSIA
IRAN
PHILIPPINES
EGYPT
KAZAKHSTAN
SOUTH AFRICA
ETHIOPIA
UZBEKISTAN
PARAGUAY
MOROCCO
SAUDI ARABIA
IRAQ
YEMEN
LIBYA
The World According to Farming
SOURCE: USDA
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Poised to GrowMoving Beyond the Blend Wall
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Ethanol Cleans Our Environment While Oil Pollutes ItSince the Enactment of the RFS, Ethanol is Cleaning our Air, While Oil Spills Continue to Pollute our Land and Water
SOURCE: US Coast Guard Office of Investigations and Analysis (CG-INV), Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. *Deep Water Horizon Spill of more than 206 million gallons is not included on this chart
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