President Promotes Renewables
President Bush got a nice round of applause when he just said, “I like the idea of promoting a fuel that relies upon our farmers.”
“I guess we have some farmers here,” he said.
“We’re up to five billion gallons of ethanol,” he adds. “We’re just in the beginning stages of an industry that’s evolving. We want you to succeed. It’s in our interest as a nation for you to succeed.”
“In my judgement, the thing that is keeping ethanol from becoming more widespread is the lack of other feedstocks to make it,” the president said, again to applause advocating the use of tax dollars for research into cellulosic ethanol.
More to come….thanks to the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council.
(This is cool being able to post live while the president is still speaking!)
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Alphonse
Please ask Bush to put more money into biofuels and efficient vehicles and less into overseas wars.We’ll be more secure!
AgWired » Covering the President
[...] Covering the visit of President Bush to the Advancing Renewable Energy conference in St. Louis made for an interesting day. It was most amazing to me how incredibly tight security was, especially for the press. The general convention attendees had more freedom than the press. The “local media” were confined to a “pen” – that’s what they called it – and we were not allowed on the floor where the attendees were. The White House press corps had a special “pen” right up front. We were relegated to a riser behind the chairs. What was cool was being able to post live on Domestic Fuel because we did have live, high-speed internet access. My pictures were not great with our little digital Canon, but usable for the web. [...]
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