CORN PROVIDES MORE THAN NOURISHMENT

Good news for all you car- drivers and gas buyers.
Hot off the press!

It has been announced today that a new energy bill has passed through the House of Representatives and is on its way to the Senate. Keep your fingers crossed! This bill will raise auto fuel economy standards for the first time in 30 years to 35 miles per gallon. It will establish a Renewable Portfolio Standard that requires utilities to produce 15 percent of their energy for renewables by the year 2020. It will also implement a Renewable Fuel Standard that will call for 36 billion gallons of ethanol in our fuel supply by 2022, and 15 billion of that by 2015 from corn ethanol.
It seems so far. Better sooner than later, but better later than never.

As it makes it’s way to the Senate, it has been reported that Republicans have threatened to filibuster.
Now, I’m not trying to point fingers at a party, but that is what I have read.
Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid has said he will hold a vote on Saturday to end the filibuster.

President Bush has said he will veto the bill if it includes the tax provisions or the RPS.
Not cool.

I am not the smartest when it comes to political issues, but I know that we need policies in place if we are ever going to make changes. If only I could tell President Bush that. You would think he would know.