President Barack Obama
“We must remove longstanding artificial barriers to market expansion necessary for large volumes of renewable fuels to find a place in America’s fuel system.”

“Advanced renewable transportation fuels will be one of the nation’s most important industries in the 21st century.”

“Combined with improved energy efficiency, biofuels are the primary near-term option for insulating consumers against future oil price shocks and for lowering the transportation sector’s carbon footprint.”

“The direct consumer benefit has been well documented and producing and using more biofuels today means an immediate reduction in oil imports in addition to an immediate increase in domestic employment.”

Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
“We’re trying to move to a different fuel mix in this country, corn-based ethanol is here, part of our mix now.”

Tom Vilsack, U.S. Agriculture Secretary
“The President has been very, very clear about this. He wants the biofuel industry to take hold in this country. He wants us to break our addiction to foreign oil. The only way we can do that is by producing our own fuel and the biofuels industry is the way we are going to do that.”

Steven Chu, U.S. Energy Secretary
“I’ve been told it costs about $100 in gaskets and fuel lines to turn a car so it can go all the way to E85,” Chu says. “Retrofitting [an existing car to burn E85] is very expensive, but a new car, if it only costs $100 out of $15,000, wouldn’t it be nice to put in those fuel lines and gaskets so that we can use any ratio we want?”