Big deal Quote by John Doerr

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

— Vinod Khosla

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

— Rod Blagojevich

“Those biofuels would be better used by aviation and heavy trucking, for which electric power is not a viable option.”

— Amory Lovins

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

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…

— Vinod Khosla

Renewable biofuels are meanwhile making inroads in the transportation fuels market and are beginning to have a measurable impact on demand for petroleum fuels,…

— Christopher Flavin

Today much of anti-biofuel "science" - including the false claim that biofuels need more energy to make than they contain - has been shown…

— Josh Tickell

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…

— Bill Gates

We're going to bake this planet, and be a curse to all species, including our own, if we don't find an alternative to carbon-based…

— Van Jones

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

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets out with…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Vinod Khosla