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By Ron Miller On January 3rd, the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association sued USEPA over its ruling to allow 15% ethanol in gasoline for later model automobiles. This is not a surprise as the battle for market share and the consumer's wallet goes on. What began as a nice idea to blunt the oil embargoes of the 1970's is now a real and present danger to fossil fuel interests. This latest action and counteraction are merely steps in this ongoing war over who is going to control the energy mix in America. The current round began with the Energy Security Act of 2007. That law requires by 2022 that 36 billion gallons of renewable fuels be used in U.S. motor fuel each year. That's roughly 25% of the gasoline sold in America. This constitutes a serious loss of market share for fossil fuel interests. The genesis of this act and the public policy before is a legitimate concern for our energy security interests. Since 1990 all of America's wars have been foug...

Article 1 (First in a series of articles on the U.S. ethanol industry.) By Ronald H. Miller Recently the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial titled "Al Gore's Ethanol Epiphany" where they state "he concedes the industry he promoted serves no useful service". The editorial itself is hardly an epiphany given the Journal's long history of anti-ethanol bias, preferring to support established big money advertisers in Big Oil and Big Food. Mr. Gore's "epiphany" is hardly that given he has moved on to "greener" pastures (pardon the pun) and needs to reinvent himself with interested financiers such as the gathering in Greece where he made those comments. The scene is reminiscent of 1992 when I met Senator Gore during his Vice Presidential campaign in Illinois. That was another period of economic stress especially in the rural Midwest. During our meeting, the future Vice President said directly to me that "We need a strong ethanol...

2011-02-22 11:42:17 EST FORMER AVENTINE CEO, BUSINESS RESOURCES EXEC FORM BIOFUEL CONSULTANCY   Phoenix -- Former Aventine CEO Ron Miller teamed up with another former Aventine official to form a biofuel-related consultancy that has been operational since last spring, OPIS learned on the sidelines of the Renewable Fuels Association's (RFA) annual conference here. Miller and Roger Bushue, former Aventine vice president for Business Resources and Administration, formed Prisma Advisors to help provide guidance primarily to start-up biofuel companies, Miller explained to OPIS at the conference on Monday. Miller retired from Aventine in October 2009, six months after the ethanol producer filed for bankruptcy protection. Aventine has since emerged out of bankruptcy. "We are helping these companies try to get financing ... set up personnel and providing guidance and counseling," Miller explained, noting that his company has approximately half a doz...