Farm Blog Week 5
Ethanol
has been around since the 15th Century in the form of Moonshine Whiskey in
Scotland. Since 2003, ethanol has increased as the oxygenating factor for
gasoline. Ethanol replaced MTBE since all States have banned MTBE, due to
the ground watering contamination, health and environment concerns.
Corn
ethanol history is the largest history in the United States. The United states is the largest producer of
corn world-wide. Roughly forty percent of
the World’s harvest in 2009. The nation
since 2005 is the world’s leading producer of ethanol fuel. The Energy Tax Act of 1978 created ethanol
tax credits in an effort to decrease the nation’s vulnerability to oil shortages
and handle how the price of corn had been depressed by agricultural subsidies. Between 1979 and 1986 production of ethanol increased
drastically in the U.S. from a mere 20 million U.S. liquid galls to 750 million
gallons. In 1990, small scale producers
received an additional tax credit of 10 cents per gallon. By 2004 ethanol production had grown even
more and was now reaching 3,6 billion gallons.
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 was
another big step in corn ethanol history.
It mandated an annual consumption of 7.5 billions gallons by 2012. Two years later it was increased to 15
billion gallons of corn ethanol by 2015.
