Tom Vilsack Quotes

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.

Right now, oil is being isolated around the globe, and there is a major effort in shipping, trucking and otherwise transporting that oil around to a very finite number of refineries. Biology allows us to make these same fuels in a much more distributed fashion.

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.

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.

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

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

It's clear there is an energy positive in producing ethanol.

The Diesel engine can be fed with vegetable oils and would help considerably in the development of agriculture of the countries which use it.

The diesel engine can be fed with vegetable oils and would help considerably in the development of agriculture of the countries which use it. The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become in course of time as important as petroleum and the coal tar products of the present time.

The growth in ethanol and biodiesel is something that I have worked on since I was secretary of agriculture in Kansas. I would like to see a lot more progress, because I think there is a real score to be made on this.

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 land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping.

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

I'm proud to work toward a greener, more vibrant economy with Mainers and stakeholders across our region through Northeast Clean Energy Council's efforts.

When it was first proposed, I was willing to support it as a 'transitional fuel' because it had some clear advantages for Hawaii. Much has changed since then. LNG will no longer save us any money.

Americans want to reduce our dependence on oil. And Americans really don't wanna be contributing global warming if they can help it.

Brazil's commitment to sustainable development is a deep-rooted one. It permeates our public policies and our actions abroad.

By expanding the state's EV infrastructure, PG&E is continuing to help California meet its climate goals while making it more convenient for our customers to choose clean, affordable electricity to fuel their vehicles.

There are a lot of people doing good work, but we need to get the burning of fossil fuels off the highways and speedways of the world, so that we'll step up on global warming.

The work of the Energy Subcommittee of the Science, Space and Technology Committee is critical to our region.

Electric cars are the future.

A car produces about one pound of CO2 per mile. There is no problem with collecting the CO2 in the tailpipe, but one might easily end up with a trailer hitched to the car for carrying all this CO2 back to the filling station. The gas burned from a 15-gallon tank would fill up five 60-inch-tall gas bottles.

Renewable energy is essential to the future of South Jersey's economy and vital to protecting our environment.

The commitment to put an end to illegal deforestation and develop sustainable alternatives for commodities like palm oil and soy, for example, is an inspiring illustration of what can be achieved when governments and industry partners come together determined to bring about transformational market-wide changes.

By 2020, we'll be able to live without oil.

Programs that reduce energy and water use and increase green agriculture and transport have huge job-creating potential.