oughout the United States and mainly in the Midwest. They can be produced every year and hauled straight to the local plant. Using ethanol would help these struggling farmers. The corn prices have been down for some time and the economic help from using ethanol would be astronomical. Farmers would haul more corn each year because of the demand that the ethanol plant brings. “The demand for grain created by ethanol production increases net farm income more than $12 billion annually” (ethanol info). In the future the demand for ethanol would be greater which would produce a larger farm income each year. Ethanol could help the farmers more than anything else. The raise in income would be dramatic because the use of ethanol today is only minimal and it produces $12 billion in income each year. The more ethanol used the more the annual income it will produce. This would cause the corn price to go up and more farmers would be able to stay in business. There would be no more struggles with foreign nations to get better oil prices. The money that is spent on the imports of oils from other countries will not be needed as much and hopefully in the future will not be needed at all. This new and safe energy producer known as ethanol could be produced and manufactured in the United States. “Today, ethanol reduces the demand for gasoline and MTBE imports by 98, 000 barrels per day. A 98, 000 barrel/day replacement of imported MTBE would represent a $1.1 billion reduction to our annual trade deficit” (ethanol info). This would create new jobs for the American public and help the economy. “The ethanol industry is responsible for more than 40,000 direct and indirect jobs, creating more than $1.3 billion in increased household income annually, and more than $12.6 billion over the next five years” (ethanol info). The more ethanol is used in the U.S., the more jobs it will produce. With these new jobs...
