• The U.S. wind industry installed 5,244 megawatts in 2007, expanding the nations total wind power generating capacity by 45%
  in a single year.The new wind projects added in 2007 account for 30% of the entire new power-producing capacity added nationally in the year.
• A single wind turbine can provide $2,000-$4,000/ year per megawatt or more in farm income even though only 2-5% of the land
  within the wind farm boundary is used for turbines and access roads.
• A single 1.5 MW turbine displaces 2,700 tons of carbon dioxide, the primary global warming pollutant, each year (equivalent to
  planting 1.5 square miles of forest), based on the current average utility fuel mix.
• Each megawatt of wind provides 2.5-3 job-years of employment.
• Wind provides 1 skilled operations/maintenance job for every 10 turbines installed.

Wind Power Lights the Statue of Liberty
The U.S. National Parks Service has contracted with Pepco Energy Services to purchase 27 million kilowatt-hours of wind power to cover the electricity needs for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Museum for a period of three years.

• Ethanol is blended in more than 50% of the nation’s gasoline, and will soon be in virtually every single gallon of gas sold in the U.S.
• The ethanol industry generated an estimated $4.6 billion in federal tax revenue and $3.6 billion in tax revenue for state and local governments.
• Ethanol production generates 228,000 jobs, adds more than $47 billion in gross domestic product, and puts an additional $12 billion in the pockets of American consumers.
• According to USDA, the increased demand for grain used in ethanol production reduced federal farm program costs by more than $8 billion, meaning that even with the cost of the ethanol blender’s credit, ethanol saved U.S. taxpayers more than $9.2 billion last year.
• The 6.5 billion gallons of ethanol produced and used last year displaced the need for 228 million barrels of imported oil, reducing the amount of money America sends to oil producing countries by $16 billion.
• There are now 140 bio-refi neries in 22 states with an annual production capacity of 7.9 billion gallons. 60 more bio-refi neries are currently under construction and at least 7 plants are expanding. When they are completed, it will push annual U.S. ethanol production capacity to 13.5 billion gallons.
  

Source: American Wind Energy Association, Renewable Fuels Association Annual Meeting, 2008