Ethanol Group Asking AP To Retract Green Energy Story

Officials with the American Coalition for Ethanol are asking the Associated Press to retract their investigative story on ethanol. ACE Executive Vice President Brian Jennings of Sioux Falls says there are no new arguments in the article that bashes ethanol and it is full of inaccuracies…

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Jennings refuted claims made by the AP that native grasslands are being broken for corn production. He says that’s illegal.

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He says ethanol is a cost effective renewable fuel especially when you compare the greenhouse gas emissions associated with practices like fractioning to get oil.

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And Jennings says there have been more than three dozen studies conducted that have shown no negative environmental impacts with ethanol production on land or water quality.