Fueling Freedom Plan
Growth Energy is proposing that America transform the way it plans for its energy future – a future that includes greater freedom for Americans to choose their own fuel at the pump.
Right now, Americans have no choice in their fuel. Sure, the signs over the stations are all different, but underneath they are all selling the same thing: gasoline refined from oil, two-thirds of which is imported.
Americans deserve a choice between oil and renewable, homegrown fuel.
Growth Energy's "Fueling Freedom Plan" will give Americans that choice. If American consumers were able to choose their fuel, most would choose the fuel that helps create U.S. jobs, reduces carbon emissions and helps strengthen national security. And that fuel is domestic ethanol, America’s renewable, homegrown fuel.
The Fueling Freedom plan calls for the redirection and eventual phasing out of government support for ethanol in return for infrastructure investments that will create competition in the fuels market and give consumers true freedom to choose their fuel.
Read a background briefing on this policy initiative and the associated press release.
