The Founders of Penn-Mar Ethanol LLC (formed after a study funded by the Agricultural Economic Development Initiative - REDDI South-Central PA (Click to read more about REDDI):
According to the Environmental Working Group's "Farm Subsidy Database," from 1995 through 2004:
J. Daniel Wolf's Wolf Farms Inc.
was given $738,021.29
http://www.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=001186013
Donald E. Lippy's Lippy Bros Inc.
was given $1,735,879.49
http://www.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=008403444
David L. Rose's Clear Meadow Farm
was given $1,078,367.85
http://www.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=011202077
Daryl L. Alger was given
$578,601.96
http://www.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=000878538
James E. Eisenhour Jr. was given
$644,029.44 through 2004
(Click to see LIDA
Agreement of Sale Information)
http://www.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=000865134
Charles R. Mielke's Trenton Mill
Farms Inc. was given $866,408.07
http://www.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=008409181
Eric Wolgemuth's Wolgemuth Bros.
LLC was given $372,958.24
http://www.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=001194805
Brian A. Utz was given
$125,201.62
http://www.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=000734059
Jay L. Arentz was given
$31,480.39
http://www.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=000662656
Nathan E. Grove was given
$19,475.00
http://www.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=000534541
Marlyn G. Flaharty was given
$1,015.00
http://www.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=011058667
"...the
cumulative federal ethanol subsidy was $11 billion through 2000, according to
government auditors, and about $1.8 billion last year, according to Monte Shaw,
spokesman for the Renewable Fuels Association, the ethanol lobby.
Gasoline marketers get a tax credit of 51 cents for every gallon of ethanol they
add to their blends. The subsidy and a similar predecessor are credited with
keeping U.S. ethanol industry alive and, according to critics, wasting billions
of taxpayer dollars...."
That
cheaper E85 ethanol is a myth in Maryland by
Jay Hancock baltimoresun.com May 4, 2005
Will the proposed Penn-Mar Ethanol plant benefit local farmers? (click here)