Letter to Editor: Using E30 Necessary to Support Ag Economy
by Dale Christensen (Farm Forum) … Unless we all use the products that come from our fields, such as higher ethanol blends like E30, we are not fully supporting our local industries and producers. Renewable, clean-burning (with no cancer causing benzene, toluene or xylene octane boosters), higher octane, and lower cost ($5-10 dollars per tank) — consumers can’t go wrong. Plus, our local farmers won’t get better margins in any other way other than using higher blends of ethanol. The economic vitality for Aberdeen, all of South Dakota, and our rural Midwest, for that matter, depends on higher ethanol blends as well as the ag processing facilities that call Aberdeen home. Now is the time to shop local because the toxins put in gasoline by the petroleum companies is harmful to us in more ways than one! READ MORE