Director of the DOE Biomass Program discusses link between Nebraska water shortage and biofuel

A response to a recent Wall Street Journal article on the relation between the Nebraska water shortage and biofuels points out that 87% of corn grown for ethanol is not irrigated, and that the region can and should support both food and fuel.

The response was written by Jacques Beaudry-Losique, Director of the Department of Energy’s Biomass Program, and repeated the DOE position that the nation should apply a sustainable approach towards clean, domestic, renewable energy resources such as ethanol.

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