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Herseth Sandlin Determined To Expand Ethanol Market
By Mr Ethanol | November 9, 2007
Sioux Falls Argus Leader:
Democratic Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin said Thursday she’s willing to do whatever it takes legislatively to pass a measure that would double the U.S. market for corn-based ethanol.
During a break in an energy conference sponsored by The Washington Post Co., Herseth Sandlin said she still is holding out hope that the House and Senate can pass their stalled energy bills before the end of the year.
The Senate version of the bill contains the so-called renewable fuel standard, which would require oil companies to blend at least 36 billion gallons of ethanol in their fuel by 2022 - 15 billion gallons of which must be corn-based.
Senate Republicans have refused to allow the legislation, which already passed both chambers, to proceed to a House-Senate negotiating committee that would resolve the differences between the two versions.
On Tuesday, Republican Sen. John Thune introduced an amendment that would move the renewable fuel standard to the farm bill under consideration in the Senate. Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson also is supporting this amendment.
“If we start getting signals in our chamber that the energy bill is not likely to get done regardless … then I will certainly support the RFS (renewable fuel standard) being on another (piece of legislation),” Herseth Sandlin said. “But we may not know that until December.”
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It’s amazing how American farmers are falling on each other to set up biofuel plants. Well, America is a blessed country. While people in a continent like Africa go without enough food, Americans are shipping their crops to biofuel plants. I have a blog, GMO Africa that I use to enhance public understanding of agricultural biotechnology. Except in South Africa, there’s nothing much going on in Africa in this area. Biotech companies like Monsanto and DuPont have operations in Africa, but they face an uphill task to convince farmers to start growing genetically modified crops, which, inarguably, are fueling the biofuel industry in the U.S. Isn’t it right for Africa to go for biotech crops to take advantage of the booming biofuel industry even if they won’t use such for food?