Ethanol Keeps Gas Prices Down
Corn Commentary:
Rising gas prices have made headlines this year, but those prices could have been much worse if not for ethanol.
The Renewable Fuels Association sent out a media FYI release drawing attention to that fact, which is backed up by recent news reports.
Two recent news articles in The Wall Street Journal and the Dallas Morning News cited petroleum industry analysts who pointed to lower priced ethanol as one major factor in restraining gasoline prices nationwide.
While tight refining capacity and higher world crude prices are helping to push the price of gasoline higher, ethanol is working in the other direction. As a September 21, 2007 story in The Wall Street Journal put it,
Another reason for steady gasoline prices: the use of ethanol as an additive to gasoline is on the rise. While crude prices have soared, ethanol prices have dropped as much as 30% in recent months and are likely to drop more, Eitan Bernstein, an analyst with Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co., said in a report yesterday. Ethanol costs more than 60 cents a gallon less than gasoline, and gasoline suppliers can offset some of the rise in crude oil prices by blending their gasoline with small amounts of the cheaper fuel. (emphasis added)…
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