Today in Biofuels Opinion: “President-elect Barack Obama’s choice of former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack may be a boon for ethanol research.”

From BH Pioneer: “President-elect Barack Obama’s choice of former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack as the next secretary of agriculture may be a boon for ethanol research. Vilsack has been a leading proponent of the biofuel. Obama supported  ethanol research when he won the Iowa caucuses…Vilsack has pushed for further development of cellulosic ethanol, in which products such as woodchips and switchgrass are used to produce the biofuel. He has called for dropping subsidies for corn-based ethanol.

Philippine Agricultural Secretary Arthur Yap: “We cannot convert our premium lands devoted to food production. If we want to expand our biofuels crops, we have to go to the uplands. That’s why we are calling on Congress to pass the Land Use Code so that we can delineate which lands can be used for agricultural and non-agricultural purposes.”

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