In case you missed it: FDAC’s “Farm to Fuel” grants
Earlier this year, Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson awarded 12 grants totaling $25 million day by as part of the state’s “Farm to Fuel†initiative, to encourage the development of bio-fuel technology.
Read about the grants here:
http://domesticfuel.com/2008/01/22/florida-awards-biofuels%20grants/
May 21st, 2008 at 11:06 am
With the cost of fuel oil increasing as it seems every day, I am a proponent of the development of both alternate sources of fuel and ways to increase domestic production. However, we need to stop and think about the impact these biofuels have on the rest of our agricultural industry and the citizens of both our nation and the world. The use of crops such as corn and soybeans for production of biofuels takes much of the supply out of the market for use in both animal and human comsumption. In addition to lowering the availability of the crop for food use it inevitably causes a rise in the cost of any food or by product made with these crops to the comsumer (and this includes meat). Instead of spending dollars and time to research and develop these crops for biofuels why are we not looking to other sources of biofuels from waste products such as the mast from sugar production, stalks after production and other waste sources that can be converted to fuel.