Addition Quote by Tom Vilsack

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

— Rod Blagojevich

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

To help producers serve larger institutional customers like schools and hospitals, USDA has helped fund new regional infrastructure like cold storage warehouses, commercial kitchens…

— Tom Vilsack

It is clearly the case that programs in Europe and the United States that have increased biofuel production have contributed to the added demand…

— Robert Zoellick

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

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

The main problem with biofuels - the land required - stems from their low power density.

— Michael Shellenberger

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

— Vinod Khosla

“re: the US agriculture industry: " This puts us in the odd position of consuming fossil fuels --geologically one of the rarest and most…

— David R. Montgomery

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…

— Bill Gates

By increasing the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel, and providing the Department of Energy with a budget to create more…

— John Salazar

I'm very excited by biomass and biofuels. We have a company, KiOR, that turns biomass - for instance, wood chips - into gasoline. The…

— Vinod Khosla