Today in Biofuels Opinion: “We can efficiently produce both food and fuel”
Jon Anderson, Mayor of Burley, Idaho: “So, despite what you may have read recently about food versus fuel hype, the evidence on the ground in the Magic Valley is that we can efficiently produce both food and fuel for Idaho and broader markets. And by doing so, we’re creating new economic opportunities for rural communities like ours.”
Bernard Weinstein, professor of applied economics at University of North Texas: “It’s time to stop beating up on “big oil” and begging OPEC to further open the spigot. We need to craft “market-based” domestic energy policies that stimulate, rather than retard, new production of oil and gas. Biofuels, wind generators and solar panels comprise less than 2 percent of global energy production and only about one percent in the United States…Despite what we often read and hear, America’s businesses and households are not energy hogs. In fact, we have one of the most energy efficient economies in the world, utilizing fewer than half the BTUs per dollar of output than was the case 30 years ago.”
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