July 4th Energy Independence Day Calls for Unity in Search for Fuel Solutions

Ethanol Promotion and Information Council are calling for July 4th to be acclaimed as Energy Independence Day.

Omaha, NE July 1, 2008 -– America’s accepted domestic gasoline production is abundant to accumulation the country’s gasoline needs for 149 days. But through the added use of biofuels and simple attention strategies, America can extend its accumulation to 186 canicule or from January 1, 2009 until July 4, 2009 fueled by domestically produced sources. As America’s families compression their pennies to drive and bless our Nation’s Independence Day, we are arising a alarm for accord in the action to accretion our Energy Independence.

The American accessible have to appeal this accord through the choices they make, the abutment they action and the articles they buy. On July 4th, Energy Independence Day, and through the advancing year, angle up and appeal accord in award clean, renewable solutions to our assurance on big-ticket adopted oil.

To defended our so awfully bare Energy Independence, we have to actualize a added adapted activity portfolio by award and continuing to advance apple-pie addition fuels, renewable energy, and by convalescent activity efficiency. Last year, just seven percent of the U.S. activity accumulation was from apple-pie and renewable calm sources such as solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, biofuels and wind energy. We can do better.

Imagine what we could do if we relied alone on domestically produced gasoline and conserved the ammunition we do use. For example, in 2009 U.S. calm assembly of 383 actor gallons of gas per day would ammunition our cars for 128 days. Add to this the U.S. booze industry’s projected assembly of 14 billion gallons of booze and we ammunition America’s cars for addition 37 days.

We have to footfall up efforts to conserve ammunition and acquisition affordable ammunition solutions. It’s estimated the boilerplate U.S. motorist could cut ammunition burning by 4.5 percent annually through accomplish such as engine tune ups, installing new air and ammunition filters, active at slower speeds, carpooling, accumulation trips, application accumulation transportation, purchasing flex-fuel or amalgam automobiles and even walking or benumbed a bike. Across the country this accumulation would ammunition our country for addition 19 days. Add it all up, and our country could ammunition itself from January 1, 2009, until July 4, 2009 – added than bisected the year.

To advice ability this Energy Independence, the U.S. biofuels industry is arch the renewable fuels effort, accouterment added than bisected of our country’s renewable activity in 2007. Ethanol abandoned displaced 200 actor barrels of alien oil.

The biofuels industry aswell is alive harder to brainwash consumers about the environmental, bread-and-butter and achievement allowances of these renewable activity sources – creating appeal for and a applicable accumulation of biodiesel, fabricated from vegetable oils and decay fats, and ethanol, created from blah and added grains. With connected analysis and investment in new technologies, the industry will advance and facilitate change to even added environmentally affable fuels such as cellulosic booze created from decay wood, citrus and aliment processing wastes and even garbage.

But this is far from enough. To acquisition accurate and abiding acceptable solutions, accumulated cocky interests and political animosity and agendas have to be set aside. We have to casting calm in the action for Energy Independence actuality in the United States and about the globe.

This July 4th, angle up and advice actualize our Energy Independence – crop accomplish to conserve fuel, ample up with ethanol, accomplish your next car flex-fuel and accept E85 for your flex-fuel vehicle. And, if you can’t acquisition booze at the pump, ask your ammunition banker to action this choice. If we plan together, in 2009 and above conceivably we will be able to absolutely bless our Energy Independence.

Web Resources
Information on Ethanol: http://www.drivingethanol.com
Energy Independence Chart: http://www.drivingethanol.org/pdfs/EnergyIndependence.pdf
Renewable Fuels Now: http://www.renewablefuelsnow.org/

The afterward affiliation of companies and organizations abutment this message:

2020 Vision
AAM Inc.
Alternative Fuels Vehicle Coalition
American Coalition for Ethanol
American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest
Biotechnology Industry Organization
Biomass Coordinating Council
Buckeye Renewable Fuels
California Ethanol Vehicle Coalition
Clean Fuels Development Coalition
Ethanol Across America
Ethanol Producers and Consumers
Ethanol Promotion and Information Council
Environmental and Energy Study Institute
Kansas Association of Ethanol Processors
Missouri Renewable Fuels Association
National Corn Growers Association
National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition
National Farmer’s Union
National Sorghum Producers
National Wheat Growers Association
Nebraska Ethanol Board
Nebraska Ethanol Industry Coalition
North Dakota Ethanol Producers Association
Northwest Biofuels Association
Renew the Earth
Renewable Fuels Association
Renewable Fuels Now Coalition
Set America Free
Steamfitters and Plumbers Local Union #464 Wisconsin BioIndustry Alliance            
Wisconsin Ethanol Coalition