Ethanol Forgotten in Energy Plan?

President Bush recently unveiled his plan for an energy policy.
The plan’s reliance on traditional energy sources, such as oil, coal and

nuclear power, has received a great deal of attention. However, one
potential fuel source that’s very important to Midwestern farmers
barely received mention. Midwest states produce more than half
of all the ethanol used in the U.S. and Canada. But the corn-based
fuel is referred to in only two sections of the one hundred and seventy
page document. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s
Jonathan Ahl reports that there are very differing opinions among
supporters of ethanol on how to interpret the fuel’s role in the
administration’s plans: