Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010 • 2 p.m. Central Time

As 2010 gets underway, the subject of ethanol looks to be a hot topic this year on Capitol Hill.

Legislative Counsel for the American Coalition for Ethanol, Eric Washburn will kick off the webinar by talking about what the EPA's delay on an E15 decision means for ethanol's interests on Capitol Hill.

Washburn will focus on:

  • If there is a possibility of E12 or E13 getting approved as a preliminary move while more testing is conducted on E15.
  • How the Obama Administration views higher blends.
  • If the Senate could approve E15 friendly legislation.

Washburn will also discuss which politicians are in favor of higher blends, what the status is on climate change legislation and how the debate over E15 might affect discussions on the RFS 2.

And we will also get to hear from the marketing side of the aisle on ethanol blends and blender pumps from ACE Vice President of Market Development Ron Lamberty as he will discuss how a possible move to E15 will affect efforts to market ethanol and blender pumps.

Lamberty will focus on:

  • Whether a possible move to E15 will mean more interest in installing blender pumps.
  • He will also discuss what the effort between ACE and the RFA called BYOethanol is planning for 2010.
  • And what ACE is planning for 2010 to help market ethanol blends.

So join both Washburn and Lamberty to get the political and the pump perspective on the ethanol industry on Thursday January, 21, 2 pm Central.

Eric Washburn
Eric Washburn, Partner, has extensive expertise in energy and environmental policy in both the public and private sectors.

Prior to joining BlueWater Strategies, Mr. Washburn ran his own consulting firm and was a senior public policy advisor at Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell, and Berkowitz where he provided business and governmental affairs advice to industry, non-profit and philanthropic foundation clients on a broad range of natural resources and energy issues.

For over ten years prior to that, Mr. Washburn worked in various policy-making and management capacities in the United States Senate. From June 2001 until 2003, he worked for then-U.S. Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle as a senior policy advisor, overseeing development and U.S. Senate passage of the Energy Policy Act of 2002. Previously Mr. Washburn worked for Senator Harry Reid as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee. Before joining the EPW Committee, he was Senate Democratic Leader Daschle's legislative director for four years, during which time he wrote the legislation establishing the national renewable fuel standard.

Mr. Washburn's initial service in Congress was as a legislative assistant to Senator Daschle for energy and environmental issues, where he led the development of Senate Democratic Caucus strategy on a range of issues, including energy-related tax policy, renewable energy, oil and gas extraction, global climate change, and the Clean Air Act.

Prior to working in the U.S. Senate, Mr. Washburn consulted with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM), and the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. Mr. Washburn is also currently counsel to the Bipartisan Policy Center/National Commission on Energy Policy and to the American Coalition for Ethanol.

Mr. Washburn holds a master's degree in forest science from the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a bachelor's degree in psychobiology from Bowdoin College. He and his wife, Robin, have two children.

Ron Lamberty
Ron Lamberty is Vice President / Market Development for the American Coalition for Ethanol. Lamberty spent the first 20 years of his career in the convenience store and petroleum wholesale distributing business and has a long history as a marketer and supporter of ethanol. He continues to be involved in the petroleum industry, owning and operating two gas stations in South Dakota.

Lamberty directs ACE's efforts to provide logistical and marketing information to petroleum marketers who want to begin selling ethanol-enriched gasoline, as well as those who already sell ethanol and are trying to find a way to improve sales of the product. Lamberty was instrumental in providing a fueling station for the first E85 vehicles in South Dakota, and later opened the first retail E85 fueling site in the nation. He worked closely with ACE to establish several others during his years working in the petroleum business. He was also instrumental in one of the nation's first tests of soy diesel, providing fuel for the Sioux Falls Transit busses in 1993.

He began his career with FINA Oil and Chemical Company in Kansas City, Omaha, and Minneapolis. In 1988, he returned to Sioux Falls as general manager of PAM Fuels, and in 1993 became Sales Manager at Harms Oil Company of Aberdeen, South Dakota. Lamberty joined ACE as Market Development Director in September of 2000 and was named Vice President in November of 2003.

 

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