Almost half of all energy coming from renewable sources, mainly hydroelectric but also biofuels.
The exact opposite seems to be happening in Europe, a longtime backer of biofuels.
Dr. TILMAN: There's a lot of optimism about what are called the next generation of biofuels.
That means investing in clean, alternative sources of energy, like advanced biofuels and natural gas.
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Tom Vilsack, as our Agriculture Secretary, continues to be a strong supporter of ethanol and biofuels.
Many other non-food-based biofuels companies will be in the market in the next five years.
What impact might the withdrawal of biofuels and higher oil prices have on food prices?
Biofuels are more environmentally friendly than petrol or diesel because they come from renewable sources.
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They would as well provide tax credits for high-ethanol fuel pumps, refineries and other biofuels production.
We can produce another 1 billion barrels of biofuels with crops like corn, soybeans and canola.
We can take care of it by making wise use of the biofuels that nature provides.
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"Biofuels will not work in isolation, " says Nathanael Greene, the NRDC report's principal author.
These companies aim to produce biofuels from renewable non-food sources, with lower carbon emissions to boot.
The other thing about biofuels is what I call the problem of unintended consequences.
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Several countries are trying to pass on the cost of adopting biofuels to motorists.
Some airlines, including KLM, are investing in biofuels, but full commercialisation looks a decade away.
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Rep. INSLEE: The biofuels industry now is what I call the first stage of the rocket.
"Biofuels will not work in isolation, " says Nathanial Greene, the NRDC report's principal author.
It is a national-security, energy-security imperative to produce advanced batteries and next-generation biofuels here at home.
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This could permit other gene circuits being introduced, for example, to produce biofuels or fine-chemicals.
But biofuels could account for 30% of all fuel consumption by 2020, some sources predict.
There are plans to use them in a new Mean Green Biofuels plant, in Memphis.
Biofuels production jumped from 4.9 billion gallons in 2006 to roughly 6.5 billion gallons last year.
Supplanting fossil fuels with biofuels has, with good reason, emerged as a prime candidate.
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Second, it dramatically boosts production of ethanol and other biofuels, which the president has encouraged.
We want to take action and the whole biofuels equation is one answer to that.
Back then, investment was always up and biofuels seemed always to be flaming out.
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Biofuelwatch says Holland and Germany have withdrawn subsidies from liquid biofuels for power generation.
The European Environment Agency said the carbon emissions from biofuels had not been properly accounted for.
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