Who is ECES?
ECES is working on building environmentally friendly,
energy efficient ethanol plants that will create new sustainable good-paying manufacturing jobs, a new agricultural
market for our local farmers, new ongoing
economic growth, new local and state taxes as well as being good stewards of
the environment. By producing ethanol at a destination point, the oil
companies can have a readily available local supply of ethanol to blend at 10%
into our unleaded gasoline to replace MTBE.
MTBE is a member of a group of chemicals commonly known as
fuel oxygenates used in gasoline throughout the United States to reduce carbon monoxide and ozone levels caused by auto emissions.
MTBE has replaced the use of lead as an octane enhancer since 1979. MTBE is a
volatile, flammable and colorless liquid thought to be carcinogenic that also
mixes easily with water. If gasoline containing MTBE leaks from an
underground tank at a gas station, it can get into groundwater and contaminate
nearby wells. Of course, MTBE isn't the only thing getting into the groundwater
when a tank leaks -- so is the gasoline and a host of other gasoline additives.
MTBE ground water contamination has and continues to be a huge environmental
threat to communities where MTBE is stored as it has already contaminated
thousands of groundwater sources across the US.
Biofuels play an important role in the diversification and broadening of our
nation’s transportation fuel. Long term energy and environmental security
must incorporate E85 and 10% ethanol in all of our gasoline supply. We
need to make necessary changes to prevent a catastrophe. The most
potentially serious catastrophic impact is our reliance on foreign oil and its
importation disruption. The stewardship of our environment and our oil consumption is self
evident. Ethanol needs only to compete alongside gasoline with a much smaller
reasonable market share. Adam Smith stated, “In a Free market, consumers
should be able to choose an alternative product to force market stabilization
and competitive pricing.”
We, the people, can do something about our energy problem with our personal
purchasing decisions. ECES believes E85 [a mixture of 85% ethanol/15%
gasoline] a clean, domestically produced, renewable fuel should be readily
available to everyone who lives, works, plays or travels
through the great state of New Jersey.
E85 is an environmentally-friendly, non-toxic, water soluble, biodegradeable
renewable fuel. It has the highest oxygen content of any fuel available today,
allowing it to burn more completely (cleaner) and cooler than conventional gasoline.
Ethanol is 105 Octane. Last year New Jersey
consumed 5.3 billion gallons of gasoline.
Did you know there are over 130,000 flexible fuel vehicles on our roads and highways
in New Jersey and
over 700,000 FFV’s in the Northeast Corridor? Under Governor Jon S. Corzine's
leadership New Jersey is becoming a National leader in the fight for clean air. Under Clean Car
Legislation, automobiles in New Jersey
contribute 40% of the pollution that diminishes our air quality, and more than
80% of the airborne carcinogens. For that reason, reducing air pollution from
our transportation is vital to clean air. E85 reduces pollution coming out of
our vehicles by up to 40%. In New Jersey
the only Choice we have for fuel at the pumps is Oil and Oil. As a nation
we face a great energy challenge and we cannot continue with a “Business as
Usual Attitude.” We must work toward changing the way we fuel our
vehicles. E85 and flexible fuel vehicles play an important role in weaning all
of us off foreign oil from unstable, terroristic nations and reducing pollution
in the air we breathe.
Our great State,
New Jersey, where I have lived all my life, as well as the rest of the country are facing
many challenges that impact all Americans. Our dependence on foreign oil
(burning fossil fuels) is adversely impacting us in many ways. The harsh reality is that
our dependence on oil is causing serious problems that directly impact our
energy security, our national security, our economic security as well as our
environmental security. We just cannot sit idly by and wait to be
prepared. The life that we know now will drastically change if we do not
start on a path to producing renewable energy, specifically for our cars and
trucks. Gasoline powered vehicles will be here for many years to come. Our
addiction to fossil fuels (oil) grows more dangerous as we increasingly rely on
foreign oil from unstable and terroristic nations that want to harm and kill us.
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see, when you take your eyes off
your goal.”
High oil prices have hurt American consumers at the gas pump, and record
revenues flowing into oil producing nations are changing the world’s
geopolitical landscape. Increasingly, oil is the currency through which
countries leverage their interests against oil dependent nations such as ours.
When we reach the point where the world’s oil-hungry economies are competing
for insufficient supplies of energy, oil will become an even stronger magnet for
conflict than it already is.
We love to drive our cars and trucks. Our weak response to
our own energy vulnerability is all the more frustrating given that alternatives
to oil do exist. Oil’s importance is the result of industrial and consumption
choices of the past. We now must choose a different path. Without eliminating
oil imports or abandoning our cars, we can off-set a significant portion of
demand for oil by giving American consumers a real choice of automotive fuel. We
must end oil’s near monopoly on the transportation sector, which accounts for
60% of American oil consumption.
ECES believes that biofuels such as ethanol, E85 and Biodiesel (B20 & B100), E95, E-Diesel
combined with FFV’s, Hybrids, Hybrid FFV’s, increased CAFÉ standards and
other technologies can move us away from our extreme dependence on oil. If
we’re going to clean up America’s air, we need to start with its biggest polluter;
engine emissions. Americans in New Jersey need the opportunity to have a choice at the
pumps to purchase environmentally
friendly renewable fuel, made from our farmers fields, rain and sunshine
Free! This is Our Country! “Make a Difference, Make a Change, Make a
Mark.” There is nothing more important than doing the right thing for
the right reason. What we do today impacts our future and the future of our
children and grandchildren.
Most of all, “There is No Blood
in Ethanol."
