Biofuels are highly dependent on the fossil fuels, and you cannot call something that dependent on fossil fuels alternate energy. The studies I cited.... There's almost a new one a week stating the problems with ethanol.
Paul Crutzen of the OECD did a study. He's a Nobel prize-winning scientist, and he determined there was more CO2 from biodiesel in Europe than from the straight use of fuel.
Anyway, Brazil has sugar cane. The United States has corn and surplus corn. We are net importers of corn, as I said, from the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border east, and it makes very little sense to me that we would build an ethanol plant in southern Ontario or in Quebec or anywhere and then import the corn to supply the feedstock for that.
With regard to the impact on farmers, a lot of farmers in the communities in western Canada get together and put a few thousand dollars into these things, and that's about as far as it goes. These are expensive things to set up. And what happened in Manitoba is that Husky got the total mandate. In Saskatchewan, Husky has a big portion of the mandate there as well for ethanol.
As a farmer, I certainly wouldn't want to invest in an ethanol plant so I could sell them low-valued grain so they could succeed, and that's really what would have to take place here.