Corn Growers Honor Getty Petroleum

March 21, 2000

The National Corn Growers Association has given its annual President's Award to Getty Petroleum Marketing, Inc., for the company's use of ethanol at nearly 1,300 stations in 12 northeast and mid-Atlantic states.

NCGA President Lynn Jensen said, "The fact that one of the nation's largest independent gasoline marketers is successfully blending (ethanol) into all of their gasoline is a testament to ethanol's economic and environmental benefits. We are honoring Getty for proactively choosing the sensible alternative (to MTBE): clean-burning, corn-based ethanol."

Getty has promoted its switch from MTBE to ethanol by hanging banners at its stations, distributing informational brochures to consumers, placing full-page ads in major newspapers and including information on its web site to educate consumers about ethanol's benefits.

Said Jensen, "Getty's success with ethanol-blended gasoline provides a shining example to other refiners and blenders. Ethanol can and should be the oxygenate of choice in clean-burning gasoline nationwide."