15 Quotes by Bob Dinneen

There are detractors of ethanol, who given the opportunity, always like to blame ethanol. The facts suggest otherwise.

Our industry is adding capacity at a phenomenal rate and will be able to adequately supply ethanol to the markets that need it.

People look and see what's happening with worldwide oil supplies and it is a cause for concern. People realize the era of cheap oil is over.

I think everybody is realizing that (the era of) cheap oil is done.

We are pleased that President Bush recognizes the need to move the country toward an energy future that is less reliant on unreliable and increasingly costly foreign sources of oil.

We are expanding rapidly and will continue to do so with comments like the president made last night. It sends a very strong signal to our industry, financial markets that the future for ethanol is secure.

We have a 140 billion gallon gasoline market.

E85 is going to be a much more significant market for us down the road. But you have to get more vehicles on the road that can use E85, and you need more outlets.

Ethanol makes up only 10 percent of a gallon of gasoline. If gasoline prices are up 36 cents, then ethanol would only make up 3.6 cents of that. And 85 percent of users have long-term contracts that are significantly below the spot-market prices.