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.
So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.
The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.
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 America.
Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded 'investments' in politically connected biofuel companies.
Biofuels are the future of energy in this nation and around the world
Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.
I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.
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.
Ethanol and biodiesel allow people to burn a cleaner form of energy.
When you have weird policy decisions in the United States that then ripple out throughout the world, the rest of the world really takes it on the chin. When the U. S. decides to set their corn on fire rather than to eat it, which is what the biofuels policy basically is - then that drives up the price of corn. It drives up the price of substitutes. And all of a sudden you have a sort of spiral of food prices. And other countries don't have the resources, because they're not allowed to, to weather the storm.
As both a former governor and a Naval officer I can tell you energy security remains among biofuels' most important benefits.
Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to $35 a barrel by 2030. I'll put it on the record: Oil will not be able to compete with cellulosic biofuels. If you do it from food, the food will get so expensive you can't make fuel out of it.
Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.
We're gonna be using American produced, American energy that will create jobs in the United States, will create a far more secure source of energy for us and will make us better environmental stewards because we will be contributing less to climate change and burning much cleaner fuel.
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.
