Sunday, September 06, 2009



Overlooked, Schafer said, is that record-high oil prices may go up further. "So developing diversity in our portfolio of fuels is, if anything, an even more urgent matter than it has been in the past," he said.

In the United States, grain used for ethanol production is projected to increase 33 percent in 2008 following a 50 percent increase from 2006 to 2007, Joe Glauber of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) told reporters at the press briefing.

Von Braun said in a May 16 press statement that governments should revoke biofuel subsidies and requirements that a certain percentage of ethanol be used in gasoline.


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