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- The USDA and the White House Council of Economic Advisors have stated that increased corn demand is only responsible for "3 percent of the more than 40 percent increase we have seen in world food prices this year."
Source: Multiple Sources
- "The American farmer successfully produces both food and fuel," said John Caupert, director of the National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center at SIU's Edwardsville campus.
Source: Belleville News-Democrat
- "Agriculture can supply the solution, providing adequate resources for food, feed and fuel far into the foreseeable future," John Pierce, DuPont Applied BioSciences' vice president for technology, testified at a Senate subcommittee hearing.
Source: United States Senate Subcommittee on on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety
- "Pennsylvania can be to cellulosic ethanol what corn-based ethanol was to Iowa and the Midwest…Pennsylvania has an abundant supply of cellulosic ethanol feedstocks, including switchgrass, woodchips, municipal waste and agricultural waste. This alternative fuel law ensures that Pennsylvania farmers and businesses will fully realize the benefits of these resources."
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell after signing legislation to promote biofuels in his state.
- The verdict is in: Do biofuels right, or they will cause more harm than good. Fortunately, the 2007 Energy Bill (the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, or EISA) puts biofuels on the right track. EISA's Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) program was carefully designed to ensure that federal biofuels policies result in renewable energy that mitigates dangerous climate change, while avoiding costly and harmful unintended consequences to wildlife and the environment. These RFS safeguards are the best way to ensure that biofuels don't become just another dirty fuel.
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- "The far greater factor is actually the rise in energy input costs for the production of food…This is just another indication of why we must develop alternative fuel sources."
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper told the media that rising oil costs, not biofuels, are the real culprit behind record food prices.
- "European Union executive's target of 10 percent biofuels' use by 2020 requires an increase in commodities for biofuels consumption of 4 million tonnes per year. The current global consumption of cereals is 2,200 million tonnes per year…We do not understand how an increase of 4 million tonnes per year could drive the price of the market of 2,200 million tonnes."
EU's Energy commissioner Andris Piebalg's spokesman, Ferran Tarradellas Espuny.
- Deputy Assistant Energy Secretary Steven Chalk told the Senate Environment and Public Works clean air subcommittee that keeping the current RFS policy in place is: "critical to ensuring growth in all parts of the biofuels supply chain, from feedstocks, to biorefineries, to infrastructure, including pipelines."
Source: Domestic Fuel
- In 2007, the expansion in ethanol and biodiesel consumption is estimated to have increased the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for all food by 0.10-0.15 percentage point. In other words, ethanol and biodiesel consumption accounted for approximately 3-4 percent of the overall rise in retail food prices. During the first 4 months of 2008, the all food CPI increased by
4.8 percent, with increased ethanol and biodiesel consumption accounting for only about 4-5 percent of the total increase while other factors accounted for 95-96 percent of the Increase.
Letter from Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer and Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman to Senator Jeff Bingaman on 6/11/08
- It is clear, however, that biofue1s are already moderating gasoline prices. That impact is likely to grow substantially as more biofuels come to market. Our preliminary analysis further suggests that current biofuels-related feedstock demand plays only a small role in global food supply and pricing. Moreover, the impact ofbiofuels on U.S. consumers is even smaller since the farm price of commodities accounts for less than twenty percent of U.S. consumers' food costs.
Letter from Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer and Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman to Senator Jeff Bingaman on 6/11/08
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