Quotes below from Brian Jennings, thanol lobbyist.

All clips and quotes taken from the Brownfield Netork

A coalition of anti-ethanol groups led by the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) continues its effort to get Congress to change the Renewable Fuels Standard. Brian Jennings is Executive Vice President of the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE), they are doing everything they can to counter the GMA effort. He says they have the facts to support the Renewable Fuels Standard but, “A lot of these groups have decided the facts don’t matter.”

Facts don’t matter?!?! Be careful of throwing stones from a glass house, Mr. Jennings:

ACE Says: “The food processors would like us to remove ethanol from the marketplace.”

Fact: All they have called for is a freeze in the ethanol mandate, not a removal of ethanol from the market place.

ACE Says: “We all know that high fuel prices are the primary factor leading to higher food prices.”

Fact: We know no such thing, … USDA says fuel prices are 3 pct of retail food costs - commodity prices are 19 percent.

ACE Says: “The Grocery Manufacturers would like the public and Congress to think that ethanol is the only reason behind food prices and that is very dishonest”

Fact: The food industry has said that ethanol is one of the key factors, not the only one. It is ACE and Mr. Jennings’ rhetoric that is very dishonest.