With alcohol fuel, you can become energy independent, reverse global warming, and survive Peak Oil in style. Alcohol fuel is "liquid sunshine" and can't be controlled by transnational corporations. You can produce alcohol for less than $1 a gallon, using a wide variety of plants and waste products, from algae to stale donuts. It's a much better fuel than gasoline, and you can use it in your car, right now. You can even use alcohol to generate electricity. Alcohol fuel production is ecologically sustainable, revitalizes farms and communities, and creates huge new opportunities for small-scale businesses. Its byproducts are clean and valuable. Alcohol has a proud history and a vital future.  To learn more, watch the five-minute "Alcohol Fuel Overview" video below, read the Two-Minute Summary, and check out our Alcohol Can Be a Gas! book and DVD. 

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EPA's Failure to Approve E15 Ruling:
A Quiet End to American Energy Independence

Delay Prevents Creation of an Estimated 490,000 Non-exportable Jobs, Impacts BioFuel Availability and Grain Futures for 2010.

Dec. 9, 2009 - Over the last several months my organization, the International Institute for Ecological Agriculture (IIEA), along with farm organizations across the country, numerous state and national representatives, environmental agencies, and ethanol producer associations, have been advocating for a seemingly minor Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling change regarding the amount of allowable alcohol fuel that can be used as a gasoline additive across the country.

Why did we need this change? States have tried to raise the alcohol requirement in gas to 15% or in the case of Minnesota to 20% to keep millions of fuel dollars in the local economy, to save tens of thousands of direct and indirect alcohol-based jobs, reduce the cost of fuel to its residents, and reduce poisonous tailpipe emissions, the oil companies refused to comply. They hide behind an out of date 1980’s EPA 10% rule claiming, “Sorry we are complying with the EPA maximum of 10% so individual states can’t make us buy additional fuel.”

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