{"id":720527,"date":"2010-04-20T20:20:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T00:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itecsinsider.com\/?p=14922"},"modified":"2010-04-20T20:20:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T00:20:35","slug":"rival-ethanol-trade-groups-campaigning-to-woo-senators-clobber-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/720527","title":{"rendered":"Rival Ethanol Trade Groups Campaigning To Woo Senators, Clobber Each Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 6pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6703\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px;\" title=\"biofuels3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/itecsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/biofuels3.jpg?resize=86%2C76\" alt=\"biofuels3\" width=\"86\" height=\"76\" \/>By Anne C. Mulkern<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 6pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Two rival trade groups seeking congressional help for the ethanol industry launched advertising yesterday to promote themselves and bash one another.\u00a0 Growth Energy Inc., which represents U.S.-based corn ethanol producers, seeks to maintain supremacy at home, while the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association, or UNICA, wants to tear down corn ethanol&#8217;s benefits in order to grab a larger share of the U.S. market.\u00a0 The campaigns&#8217; same-day launch was coincidental, the groups said. The lobbying efforts likely are eyeing the same legislative target, one analyst said.\u00a0 &#8220;Senator Kerry is now saying that they&#8217;re going to have an energy bill in the next three weeks,&#8221; said Ken Green, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute think tank, referring to the climate bill that Kerry is crafting along with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.). Ethanol groups, Green said, &#8220;want to turn up the heat on what&#8217;s in this new energy bill and how it treats ethanol.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/gwire\/2010\/04\/13\/13greenwire-rival-ethanol-trade-groups-campaigning-to-woo-s-2028.html\" >Click here to read more&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anne C. Mulkern Two rival trade groups seeking congressional help for the ethanol industry launched advertising yesterday to promote themselves and bash one another.\u00a0 Growth Energy Inc., which represents U.S.-based corn ethanol producers, seeks to maintain supremacy at home, while the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association, or UNICA, wants to tear down corn ethanol&#8217;s benefits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-31rp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}