Biofuels Quotes

• Biofuels are the future of energy in this nation and around the world

  Rod Blagojevich

  Energy, World, Nations

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• Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs.

  John Doerr

  Mean, Ties, Molecules

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• As President, I'll invest in renewable energies like wind power, solar power, and the next generation of homegrown biofuels. That's how America is going to free itself from our dependence on foreign oil – not through short-term gimmicks, but through a real, long-term commitment to transform our energy sector.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Commitment, Oil

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• If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

  Bill Gates

  Food, Moving, Land

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on the World's Energy Crisis". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. June 20, 2011.

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• The growing use of biofuel will be an inestimable contribution to the generation of income, social inclusion and reduction of poverty in many poor countries of the world.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Country, Countries Of The World, Income

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• As both a former governor and a Naval officer I can tell you energy security remains among biofuels' most important benefits.

  Matt Blunt

  Important, Energy, Benefits

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• Ethanol and biodiesel allow people to burn a cleaner form of energy.

  Mark Kennedy

  People, Energy, Ethanol

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• The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as kerosene and these coal-tar-products of today.

  Rudolf Diesel

  Oil, Important, Today

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• We've got to control our own energy. Now, not only oil and natural gas, which we've been investing in; but also, we've got to make sure we're building the energy source of the future, not just thinking about next year, but ten years from now, 20 years from now. That's why we've invested in solar and wind and biofuels, energy efficient cars.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Years, Wind

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.

  Vinod Khosla

  Mean, Winter, Thinking

  "Power Q&A: Vinod Khosla". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

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• Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

  Elon Musk

  Wilderness, Natural, Ethanol

  "Elon Musk on rockets, sports cars, and solar power". Interview with Micahel Kanellos, www.cnet.com. February 15, 2008.

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• The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping.

  Bill Gates

  Opportunity, Land, Interesting

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on the World’s Energy Crisis". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. June 20, 2011.

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• I strongly agree with Vice President Gore that we cannot drill our way to energy independence, but must fast-track investments in renewable sources of energy like solar power, wind power and advanced biofuels...

  Barack Obama

  Wind, Track, Independence

  "Gore introduces green challenge to U.S." by S.A. Miller, www.washingtontimes.com. July 18, 2008.

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• I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.

  Vinod Khosla

  Believe, Differences, Making A Difference

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• The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.

  Vinod Khosla

  World, Wrong Things, Hung

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• We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Houses don't retrofit themselves and put in their own new boilers and furnaces and better-fitting windows and doors. Advanced biofuel crops don't plant themselves. Community gardens don't tend themselves. Farmers' markets don't run themselves. Every single thing that is good for the environment is actually a job, a contract, or an entrepreneurial opportunity.

  Van Jones

  Running, Jobs, Business

  Van Jones (2013). “Rebuild the Dream”, p.187, Nation Books

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• We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.

  Bobby Jindal

  Alternatives, Development, Fuel

  "America’S 25 Issues to Fix and Make the United States Great, Again!". Book by Peter D. Fleming, January 15, 2010.

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• I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.

  Daryl Hannah

  Ideas, Support, Energy

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• The biodiesel we use is 100 percent, it has no petroleum in it. It was already used in fryers throughout our local area. It's already had one life and now it's going to be used again, which is nice.

  Daryl Hannah

  Nice, Use, Biodiesel

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• Renewable biofuels are meanwhile making inroads in the transportation fuels market and are beginning to have a measurable impact on demand for petroleum fuels, contributing to a decline in oil consumption in the United States in particular starting in 2006... The 93 billion liters of biofuels produced worldwide in 2009 displaced the equivalent of an estimated 68 billion liters of gasoline, equal to about 5 percent of world gasoline production.

  Christopher Flavin

  Oil, Impact, Fuel

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• So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.

  Daryl Hannah

  Practice, Ideas, Farming

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• We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline and diesel and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance-algae... We could replace up to 17 percent of the oil we import for transportation with this fuel that we can grow right here in the United States.

  Barack Obama

  Oil, America, Energy

  Barack Obama's speech on Energy at University of Miami in Miami, Florida, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 23, 2012.

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• It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Yield, Energy

  "Elon Musk on rockets, sports cars, and solar power". Interview with Michael Kanellos, www.cnet.com. February 15, 2008.

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• Democrats believe we should renew our commitment to creating tax credits for hybrid vehicles, increasing fuel efficiency standards for cars, and investing in ethanol, biofuel, hydrogen fuel cell technology.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Believe, Commitment, Technology

  "Democrats' Radio Response". www.foxnews.com. October 08, 2005.

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• The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death.

  Mark Steyn

  Country, Real, Order

  "The Biofuels Debacle". www.nysun.com. April 28, 2008.

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