Agriculture committee  I'm really happy to. Thank you, sir, for the opportunity to get to this. As I was saying before, what the market really needs is for the commodity at the front end of this to decouple from the commodity at the back end. But in the meantime, we need subsidies, competitive with th

Agriculture committee  In support of that, I'd like to just make a very brief comment. I won't burn your time. What is important about this bill is that it allows petroleum and feedstock to decouple. It allows the biodiesel industry to be predicated on the feedstock market that these gentlemen are pr

Agriculture committee  I have to refute this. As a producer of biodiesel right now--

Agriculture committee  I don't have anybody working at the shift level who's making a million dollars a year.

Agriculture committee  I've been through it in some detail. I think the bill is very sound. Clearly we also support going further, but we have to start with a first step, and I believe this is a fabulous first step. I'm not a farmer. I am a developer of technology that we bought from the University of

Agriculture committee  We can justify these numbers with back-up studies from the USDA and things like that. If you would like to see them, we will direct these studies to the committee. This is not myth; this is reality. It's based on existing jobs from existing plants, extrapolating out and going f

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chairman, I'd like to make an observation. I'm not in the corn ethanol business, so perhaps it's just an observation as an observer. I don't understand this preoccupation and concern with imported corn. Yes, we should use domestic corn to the extent that we have it, but Cana