Agriculture Quote by Michael Pollan

It's estimated that about 30 percent of the increase in grain prices could be attributed to the decision to embrace biofuels, particularly corn-based ethanol.…

— Michael Pollan

Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous.

— Van Jones

In case you didn't know, ethanol is made by mixing corn with your tax dollars.

— Paul Gigot

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

“Globalized industrialized food is not cheap: it is too costly for the Earth, for the farmers, for our health. The Earth can no longer…

— Vandana Shiva

Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.

— Richard Lugar

Ethanol has reduced our nation's dependence on imported energy, created thousands of jobs, reduced air pollution, and increased energy security. And renewable fuels cost…

— Lane Evans

Ethanol is here to stay, and we're going to work for new technologies to be more efficient.

— Sonny Perdue

American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.

— Anonymous

Corn occupies a really special role in what I've been calling American agro-economics.

— Hope Jahren

Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's…

— John Thune