Today in Biofuels Opinion: “We should be prepared to reconsider the tariff on imported ethanol as global demand and markets progress”

The US Chamber of Commerce Blueprint for Securing America’s Energy Future: “Eventually, free trade of biofuels should be the goal, and we should be prepared to reconsider the tariff on imported ethanol as global demand and markets progress.”

Ricardo Dorneles, the secretary for biofuels in Brazil’s ministry for mines and energy: “Brazil still has a huge agricultural frontier that can be used without compromising sensitive biomass such as the Amazon or the Pantanal. The agro-ecological zoning studies for sugarcane in Brazil will be published soon. In practice, it will be an essential step to guide production expansion and ensure its sustainability.  The threats to the Amazon region are of a nature completely unrelated to the increase in biofuel production in Brazil. Linking both means could seriously harm the search for solutions aimed at maintaining the Amazon’s biodiversity.”

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