THE IMPACT OF ETHANOL PRODUCTION ON FOOD, FEED AND FUEL

For more than three decades, critics have tried to cast ethanol as a “food versus fuel” argument.
The marketplace is a better indicator of grain supply and demand—and statistics simply don’t bear out the dire predictions of those who say we must choose between fueling our cars and feeding people. We can do both—and we are.

The process of producing ethanol and high-protein co-products from grain has been practiced for centuries. Using ethanol as a fuel was first advocated more than 100 years ago. The first extensive use of ethanol in gasoline was adopted as part of a domestic energy strategy in the 1970s.

Ethanol was used as an octane replacement in the 1980s and as a tool in the battle against air pollution in the 1990s. Today, ethanol meets a host of energy, agricultural, rural development and economic policy objectives.

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