CNN Shows Corn Ethanol in Positive Light
Posted: October 28, 2009
CNN’s “State of the Union” last weekend featured a refreshingly positive look at corn and ethanol in Nebraska, headlined “Ethanol keeps Nebraska running in tough financial times.”
Host and chief national correspondent John King visited the farm of Neale Shaner in Fort Calhoun, and the Advanced BioEnergy ethanol plant in Fairmont, where he stood on a mound of dried distillers grains with ABE Plant Manager Grant Johanson. Here’s a taste of the article:
Watching their 12-row combine harvest the corn is a sight to behold, methodically scooping ears from the fields and dramatically increasing productivity. This corn won’t end up on a dinner table but instead at a giant Cargill plant just up the road, where it is processed into ethanol and several corn byproducts.
In Washington, ethanol is a source of controversy, with many lawmakers arguing it is an industry unfairly propped up by generous federal subsidies. To Nebraska, however, it is the direct source of roughly 1,000 jobs at ethanol production plants across the state, many of them located in small towns where those 40 to 50 plant jobs are the local gold standard.
Ethan Edwards Said,
October 28, 2009 @ 9:38 pm
My local PBS station ran a documentary on corn ethanol two nights ago called The Ethanol Maze
It actually presented both sides of the issue very well. Was produced and made by Nebraska’s PBS network – NET. They interviewed several Nebraska corn farmers and ethanol producers, as well as several well-known ethanol critics.