Comprehensive Agricultural Energy Initiative
There is a tremendous opportunity to formulate and propose agriculture-based energy initiatives that could be used as a “new opportunity” to promote ethanol and its economic contribution to agriculture. Oxydiesel alternatives and others also provide an opportunity to share clean energy biomass electricity alternatives to a nation looking for more energy.
Potential biomass production by using advanced gasification technology (not burning), biomass from switch grass crop residues and solid waste could produce a significant amount of clean, sustainable power. The economic benefits for biomass electricity and biofuels would create jobs and provide an additional source of income for producers, rural communities, and businesses. Biomass energy will keep energy dollars in the U.S. and provide the positive environmental impacts that are called for.
NASDA supports the development of a “comprehensive agricultural energy initiative” by the Administration that considers the renewable resources of this nation’s agriculture industry.