Ethanol has been good for Nebraska

9 Dec 2016

Energy

In 1971, Nebraska state senators championed legislation to establish the nation’s first state ethanol development program. As a farmer and state senator at the time, it was clear to me that Nebraska’s economy needed a boost to survive a prolonged downturn in agricultural exports.

The Agricultural Products Industrial Utilization Committee was established to work with private companies to build ethanol processing plants. The goal was to create a value-added market for grain.

Processing corn into ethanol and related products was intended to stimulate investment, create jobs, provide new food and feed products, displace imported gasoline and replace toxic lead and other cancer-causing compounds in gasoline with cleaner burning ethanol. The result of the ethanol development program is an industry that stimulates more than $5 billion annually in the Nebraska economy.

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