Greg Roth
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Associate Professor
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vember the board voted to
change the name of our or
ganization to The Pennsylva
nia Corn Growers Associ
ation, Inc. (PCGA).
We filed the appropriate
legal papers and have noti
fied the National Corn
Growers Association of the
change. We have also devel
oped a new logo to represent
our organization. After care
ful consideration, the board
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of directors chose a logo with
our state outline and the
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NCGA-Sponsored Study Proves
Energy, Economic Benefits
Of Renewable Fuels Standard
WASHINGTON, D.C.
A study sponsored in part by
the National Corn Growers
Association (NCGA) has
concluded that increasing the
total gallons of renewable
fuels contained in motor ve
hicle fuels, such as ethanol or
biodiesel, from current levels
to four percent by 2016 would
provide energy security and
economic benefits to the U.S.
“A renewable fuels stan
dard as proposed by Sens.
Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and
Tim Johnson, D-S.D., would
reduce our dependence on
foreign oil, improve our trade
deficit, boost farm income,
to see this more in our Corn
Talk and other communica
tions you receive from
PCGA.
create new opportunities tor
rural businesses, and reduce
farm program costs,” said
John McClelland, director of
energy and analysis for
NCGA.
McClelland noted that, in
addition to Hagel and John
son, similar RFS bills have
been introduced by Sen. Tom
Daschle, D-SD, Sen. Tom
Harkin, D-lA, and Rep. John
Thune, R-At Large SD.
The analysis by John Ur
banchuk of AUS Consultants
shows that implementing
such a renewable fuels stan
dard (RFS) would lead to the
annual use of 7.6 billion gal
lons of ethanol in 2016.
“That level of ethanol use could
reduce crude oil imports by 2.9 billion
barrels by 2016, an average of 302 mil
lion barrels annually,” said McClel
land. “That equates to approximately
one oil supertanker a day for the next
15 years.”
He added, “These reductions in im
ports would lower America’s depend
ence on imported oil to 65 percent
compared to the 70 percent projected
by the U.S. Department of Energy in
2016.”
McClelland said the study cited
other benefits that could be achieved
by 2016:
• The decrease in oil imports can
reduce the U.S. trade deficit by $63.4
billion
• Create 300,000 new American
jobs
• Increase U.S. household income
by $7l billion.
The projected benefits to agriculture
and rural economy include:
• Use 2.5 billion bushels of corn for
ethanol production by 2016. Current
U.S. corn production is 9.4 billion
bushels of which 650 million bushels
are used in ethanol production.
• Corn prices will increase an aver
age of 28 cents per bushel. Net farm
income will increase an average of $6.6
billion annually. That could reduce
direct government payments to farm
ers $7.8 billion through 2016.
• $10.5 billion in new rural eco
nomic investments by 2016 to build or
expand the renewable fuel production
facilities. Much of this new investment
would be through farmer-owned,
value-added businesses.
The NCGA, the National Biodiesel
Board, and the Renewable Fuels Asso
ciation sponsored the study. The
report is available on
the NCGA Website at www.ncga.com.
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