Quotes About Biofuels

#1. I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don't believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.

Ted Cruz

#2. 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

#3. 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 energy production into agriculture.

Bill Gates

#4. When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants.

Craig Venter

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

Vinod Khosla

#6. I strongly agree with Vice President Gore that we cannot drill our way to energy independence, but must fast-track investments in renewable sources of energy like solar power, wind power and advanced biofuels.

Barack Obama

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

Rod Blagojevich

#8. The challenge of global warming should stimulate a whole raft of manifestly benign innovations - for conserving energy and generating it by 'clean' means (biofuels, innovative renewables, carbon sequestration, and nuclear fusion).

Martin Rees

#9. Today, President Obama is making smart investments in clean energy - wind, solar, biofuels - as part of an all-of-the-above energy strategy that supports thousands of jobs, not in the Middle East, but in the Midwest.

Tom Vilsack

#10. Today much of anti-biofuel "science" - including the false claim that biofuels need more energy to make than they contain - has been shown to be complete hogwash, bought and paid for by big oil.

Josh Tickell

#11. Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives.

Raul Grijalva

#12. As both a former governor and a Naval officer I can tell you energy security remains among biofuels' most important benefits.

Matt Blunt

#13. 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.

Vinod Khosla

#14. I believe we will see a biofuels resurgence. While gas prices skyrocket and we continue to wage wars for oil, while spills, fracking, tar sands and the oil madness of our empire continue, people are waking up and realizing that you can't be against petroleum and against fuels that come from nature.

Josh Tickell

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

Vinod Khosla

#16. You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.

John Oates

#17. The more culturally different or remote the retirement relocation, the longer and more difficult the adjustment will be with the least likelihood of success"

For those planning out-of-country moves to exotic locations

Lee Johnson

#18. I am a private human.

Zosia Mamet

#19. Chocolate is something you take for granted until you don't have any.

Marja McGraw

#20. The workers aren't going to stop struggling. They're going to struggle to have a union and they have the right to have it. The police repression and the grower indifference to the workers' demands for recognition cannot go unheard so we're going to keep on struggling until we get that recognition.

Cesar Chavez

#21. Man does not see reality as it is, but only as he perceives it, and his perception may be mistaken or biased.

Rudolf Dreikurs

#22. As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.

Jack Markell

#23. From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.

Gary Ackerman

#24. Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

Alain De Botton

#25. I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.

Neil Young

#26. Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

Benjamin Franklin

#27. Get in touch with your inner most desire and aspirations, then utilise the power of your heart to create a life of bliss.

Steven Redhead