Renewable Fuels Association President Bob Dinneen has sent a letter to former Vice President Al Gore concerning some of the inaccuracies in his new book "Our Choice". In the book, Gore expresses his disappointment over the progress of ethanol in the past 30 years. Yet, the facts used to support his opinion, according to Dinneen, either do not reflect the industry as it exists today or are simply inaccurate.
In his letter, Dinneen wrote that many of your characterizations of today's American ethanol industry are out of date or simply wrong. With 10.5 billion gallons produced and sold this year, ethanol is a major factor in America's motor fuel supply and is helping eliminate the need for increasing environmentally damaging sources of crude oil. Dinneen urged a more complete and up to date review of biofuels to present readers with a clearer and more accurate view of the energy choices they will be forced to make.
"I sincerely hope that we can both agree that corn-based ethanol is not a mistake," Dinneen wrote. "Rather, it is providing a strong economic and environmentally sustainable foundation upon which the next generation of biofuels, including improvements in existing technologies, will be built."
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