America Needs a Liberty Fuel Program
An Editorial Comment on Biofuel Production by
Larry Mitchell, Chief Executive
American Corn Growers Association
November 2006
As our nation struggles through its fourth war year, with gasoline prices surpassing three dollars a gallon this past summer and with other energy set backs such as the damage to the Alaskan pipeline, it is time to once again review the lessons of the past in order to chart a new future for America’s Liberty. To do so, we must review the past in order to understand how to chart our future. We need to review our nation’s previous war efforts as well our previous energy systems.
During this time of war, what is desperately needed is a wartime effort to ensure the nation’s Liberty. The U.S. currently has about 100 ethanol plants, concentrated, for the most part, in the Midwest, using corn and other feed grains as the source for feedstock required. What America needs is 1,000 ethanol plants located throughout America using... click here for the complete story.
Food and Fuel for the World:
Opportunity for Rural Americans
Nearly 60 million Americans – twice the population of our 15 largest cities – live and work in rural America. Two million live and work on farms, and about six million work in other agribusiness jobs. For the rest of us, we work at the same jobs that city workers do, but we prefer living larger by spreading ourselves across four-fifths of U.S. land.
From the earliest days, the U.S. has depended upon the labor of rural Americans and our land to provide for the nation's basic needs – food, clothing, wood and minerals, all necessary for families to prosper.
Now, Americans have begun to ask rural America to fuel the U.S. in addition to our traditional role of feeding the world.
My Rural America is committed to assisting rural Americans answer this call for U.S. energy independence. In fact, we believe U.S. energy independence is a key step toward our country becoming truly secure. We are equally committed to assisting rural Americans stand up for families who need access to a fair share of our nation's wealth, including healthy food and a good education. We are also committed to making certain that our kids have opportunities to have it better than we did while we keep the promises our country has made to our seniors.
In this section, MRA amplifies news related to the steps America needs to take to making our country energy independent. |
