Energizing American Security

The news service RedOrbit.com picked up on an editorial Bob Dinneen wrote that was published in the January edition of “The Officer,” the official publication of the Reserve Officers Association (ROA).

The subject is the importance of domestic fuel sources like ethanol to our nation’s homeland security and it is really a must read for anyone in the business to be able to talk about why displacing even a small fraction of foreign oil makes a difference.

Dinneen writes: In 2006, U.S. ethanol producers churned out nearly five billion gallons of ethanol. This volume displaced the need to import 206 million barrels of oil. For perspective, that is more oil than we will import from Iraq in 2007 and nearly half of the oil we will get from Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Additionally, displacing that much oil saved more than $11 billion that would have gone overseas to fund radicals bent on our destruction.

Much more in the article - definitely a good source for defending US ethanol production on the basis of national security alone.