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“I’m not going to predict what the price of corn is going to do, but I will tell you that the future of biofuels is not based on corn”

Clay Sell, Secretary
US Department of Energy

Cellulosic Ethanol

Why Cellulosic Ethanol is Best

Andy Karsner, from the US Department of Energy, recently said that although the US Government currently supports the use of corn ethanol it is only because it is “a necessary precursor to the larger scaling of ethanol and alternative fuels in general”. He predicts that cellulosic ethanol will replace corn-based ethanol by 2012.

In a recent Reuter’s interview, US Department of Energy Secretary Clay Sell left no room for confusion: “I’m not going to predict what the price of corn is going to do, but I will tell you that the future of biofuels is not based on corn”. He went on to say that “We are going to get significant breakthroughs that can conceivably bring down the cost of cellulosic ethanol production by an order of magnitude.”