THE FACTS ABOUT ETHANOL
America’s
Homegrown Fuel
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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.
Contents
2Ethanol: America’s Energy
3 Fueling the United States
4A Pathway: The Renewable Fuel Standard
5 Cellulosic Ethanol: The 50-State Solution
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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
11 Gasoline, 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
Small Impact: Ethanol’s Slice of the Corn Supply
USDA Conservation Expenditures
Ethanol’s Energy Balance
Lap After Lap on American Ethanol
What Do You Think is Causing High Gas Prices?
Hidden Costs of Oil
The World According to Oil
The World According to Farming
Poised to Grow
Ethanol Cleans Our Environment While Oil Pollutes It
Source information and methodology
can be found at GrowthEnergy.org/flipbook.
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Ethanol: America’s Energy
Cleaner, 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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Fueling the United States
U.S. Ethanol and Crude Oil Imports
SOURCE: EIA, adjusted to reflect gasoline
yields.
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APathway:The Renewable Fuel Standard
How America is Fueling Its Future
SOURCE:
EPA
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Cellulosic Ethanol: The 50-State Solution
A Variety of Renewable Biomass Can be Converted to Ethanol
1 METRIC TON 1.1 TONS; SOURCE:
NREL
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A Good Investment for America
Ethanol is a Win-Win for Everyone
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
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Future Ethanol Production
Potential Growth
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Historical Averages
As Technology Evolves, Corn Yields Continue to Rise
SOURCE:
ERS/USDA
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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 Store
Food 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 Rise
Consumer Price Index
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor
Statistics
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Livestock & Poultry Producers are Better Off
Margin Over Feed Costs are Up
SOURCE:
USDA
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Farmers are Better Off
Net Farm Income is Up
SOURCE:
USDA
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Ethanol: Fuel and Food
Feed, Fuel and More from Ethanol Production
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Environmental Advancements
Innovation Reduces Greenhouse Gas
Emissions
SOURCE: Argonne National Laboratory (Note: these current percentages do not include land use change)
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Small Impact
U.S. Ethanol’s Slice of the Domestic Corn Supply
Only 17.5 percent of net corn acres
are used for renewable fuels
Carryout
Exports
Biofuel 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.
Food &
Industrial
U.S. Feed (with
DDGs)
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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Net
Corn Ethanol
USDA Conservation Expenditures
Farmers 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 Balance
Net Energy Production Increases
SOURCES: USDA; Mueller and Kwik, 2012 Corn Ethanol: Emerging Plant Energy and Emerging Technologies, University of Illinois
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Lap After Lap on American Ethanol
America’s Renewable Fuel is Revolutionizing a Sport
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.
SIX MILLION MILES EQUATES
TO
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LAPS
AROUND THE
EARTH
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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 Oil
What Are You Really Paying For at the Pump?
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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The World According to Oil
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SOURCE: BP Statistical Review of World Energy
2013
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The World According to Farming
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PAKISTAN
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INDIA
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PHILIPPINE
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MALAYSIA
INDONESI
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BRAZIL
PARAGUAY
ARGENTIN
A
AUSTRALIA
SOUTH
AFRICA
SOURCE:
USDA
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Poised to Grow
Moving Beyond the Blend Wall
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Ethanol Cleans Our Environment While Oil Pollutes It
Since 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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