Wednesday, October 8, 2008

USDA, DOE Announce National Biofuels Action Plan

DOE USDA Bodman Schaffer Biofuels Action PlanThe Depart. of Agriculture (USDA) and the Dept. of Energy (DOE) have released the National Biofuels Action Plan (NBAP), an interagency plan detailing the collaborative efforts of Federal agencies to accelerate the development of a sustainable biofuels industry.
The NBAP was developed in response to President Bush’s plans to change the way America fuels its transportation fleets in the 2007 State of the Union Address. The President's "Twenty In Ten" goal calls for cutting U.S. gasoline consumption by 20 percent over the next 10 years by investing in renewable and alternative fuel sources, increasing vehicle efficiency and developing alternative fuel vehicles.
To enhance the impact of federal biofuels investments and enable attainment of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the NBAP outlines interagency actions and accelerated federally supported research efforts in seven areas including:
  • Sustainability
  • Feedstock Production
  • Feedstock Logistics
  • Conversion Science and Technology
  • Distribution Infrastructure
  • Blending
  • Environment, Health and Safety
More information is available online:
Source: Department of Energy

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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Senator McCain Slams Ethanol

Senator John McCain ethanolIn a speech on the US economy given today in Independence, Missouri, Presidential candidate John McCain slammed federal support for ethanol.
And my administration will reduce the price of food by eliminating the subsidies for ethanol and agricultural goods. These subsidies inflate the price of food, not only for Americans but for people in poverty across the world, and I propose to abolish them.
In this painfully uninformed policy statement, Senator McCain ignores the repeated studies that show that ethanol demand has had limited impact on food prices. In fact, it has been the higher price of oil that has driven food cost inflation. In other studies, it's shown that the increase use of ethanol has kept gas prices down in part due to the increase in fuel supplies.

Ethanol subsidies are in place to encourage the OIL companies to invest in the technology and infrastructure to blend ethanol into our nation's fuel supply.

America needs to continue finding and funding alternative fuel solutions to improve the environment, break our dependence upon oil and provide for our economic and national security independence free from the tyranny of foreign oil

American voters, especially those who support renewable fuels and rural development, will have to weigh McCain's position on ethanol in a broader policy context of farm policy, taxes, national security, free trade, extreme environmentalism and federal fiscal responsibilities.

Ethanol enjoys wide support from both republican and democrat senators, congressmen and governors across the country. So they will be loathe to agree with any administration that seeks to turn back America's renewable energy growth.

But this much is clear: the next administration will need to support a robust rural farm economy that can both feed and fuel the country.

Source: JohnMcCain.com

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