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.

http://www.fuel-testers.com/ethanol_fuel_history.html

http://www.ethanolhistory.com/#corn