Citing protests in Egypt, Wesley Clark calls for expanded reliance on ethanol

The Hill
By Andrew Restuccia - 02/04/11 02:24 PM ET

Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark, the former NATO supreme allied commander and a 2004 presidential candidate, said Friday that the unrest in the Middle East shows that the United States must limit its reliance on foreign oil.

Clark — the chairman of Growth Energy, a major ethanol trade association — called for increasing the country’s reliance on ethanol.

“We need to move ourselves away from dependence on oil from outside and we need to build domestic fuel capacity,” he said Friday in a video message on Growth Energy’s website. “We can do that right now with a fuel that’s here, it’s clean, it’s green and it’s all-American. And that’s ethanol.”

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