ETHANOL needs to be a renewable fuel choice in Wisconsin. Assembly Bill B15 and Senate Bill 15 would provide a choice for ethanol fuel in Wisconsin by requiring fuel with 87 octane rating to contain at least 10 percent ethanol. Contact your legislators today and ask them to co-sponsor AB15 and SB15. Key Messages of Ethanol: ETHANOL is good for the environment. ETHANOL means economic development. ETHANOL is good for agriculture. Ethanol improves air quality. Ethanol and car performance.

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Links to learn more about Ethanol:
Renewable Fuels Association: www.ethanolrfa.org
American Coalition for Ethanol: www.ethanol.org
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ETHANOL is good for the environment.
The use of ethanol-blended fuels reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 12-19% compared with conventional gasoline, according to Argonne National Laboratory. In fact, in 2003, ethanol use in the U.S. reduced C02-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 5.7 million tons, equal to removing the annual emissions of more than 853,000 cars from the road.

Other benefits to the environment:

• Ethanol reduces tailpipe carbon monoxide emissions by as much as 30%.
• Ethanol reduces exhaust VOC emissions by 12%.
• Ethanol reduces toxic emissions by 30%.

The use of ethanol significantly reduces tailpipe emissions of carbon monoxide, an ozone precursor, VOCs and fine particulates that pose a health threat to children, seniors and those with respiratory ailments. Importantly, renewable fuels help to reduce greenhouse gases emitted from vehicles, including carbon dioxide, methane and other gases that contribute to global warming. Source: Reformulated Fuels Association

Many areas of the country have used ethanol in order to meet EPA clean air standards with great results. In every area of the country that has used ethanol-blended fuel, air quality has improved.

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ETHANOL is good for economic development.
Ethanol plants in Wisconsin provide new jobs and expanded tax base. Having ethanol as a fuel choice will provide markets for the nine ethanol plants that have invested millions to produce ethanol and provide jobs.

Ethanol production helps make Wisconsin stronger. It helps Wisconsin to add value to its products. Ethanol production also creates good-paying jobs in areas that need them.

An ethanol plant generates these economic benefits to the community in which it is located:
• Expand the economic base of the local economy by $110.2 million.
• Generate an additional $19.6 million of household income.
• Support the creation of as many as 694 permanent new jobs
throughout the entire economy.
• Generate at least $1.2 million in new tax revenue.
• Generate additional revenue for local grain farmers by increasing demand.
Source: Ethanol and the Local Community . AUS Consultants and SJH & Company, June 2002.

ETHANOL is good for Wisconsin farmers.
An ethanol fuel choice allows Wisconsin agriculture to be part of an environmental solution. The use of grain for ethanol adds value to every bushel of corn for Wisconsin farmers. Ethanol is a value-added product from a locally-produced renewable resource. The distiller’s grain that is a co-product of ethanol is also a low-cost feed for livestock.

ETHANOL is an alternative and renewable fuel we grow at home.
Ethanol extends our state’s and nation’s fuel supply. Ethanol reduces the need to import 128,000 barrels of oil per day. Ethanol is made from renewable sources produced in Wisconsin. Every major automaker approves the use of E-10 unleaded - a blend of 10% ethanol and 90% ordinary gasoline. The trucks made at the GM plant in Janesville have all been built to run on ethanol. If we’re making vehicles in Wisconsin to use ethanol, we should be providing the fuel used those vehicles.

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• The number of days in Southeast Wisconsin that have exceed federal ozone standards has decreased by 45% since the use of ethanol in reformulated fuels.
• Minnesota continues to meet all federal ambient air quality standards, having reduced air pollution in several areas of the state.
• In one year since ethanol replaced MTBE California, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) touted "dramatic improvements statewide compared to last year."
• In New York and Connecticut, the number of days exceeding the federal 8-hour ozone standard dropped 91 percent, a year after ethanol replaced MTBE.
  

The American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago credits ethanol-blended reformulated gasoline with reducing smog-forming emissions by 25% since 1990. Ethanol reduces particulate emissions, especially fine-particulates that pose a health threat to children, senior citizens, and those with respiratory ailments.

The American Lung Association of Minnesota web site said ethanol blended fuels are good for the environment. The Minnesota chapter fully supports the Minnesota E10 program.
Source: http://www.ethanol-gec.org/spring2000/spr0021.htm

ETHANOL helps ease gas prices.
With gas prices projected to be more than $4.00 per gallon this year, the use of ethanol-blended fuel usually lowers gas by 15 cents per gallon. It’s not a great savings, but every little bit helps with oil production controlled by OPEC and large oil companies making large profits.

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ETHANOL blended fuel does not cause fuel injector problems

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