Indirect Land Use Frustrates House Ag Chair
Posted: May 7, 2009
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-MN) expressed frustration over indirect land use change penalties against biofuels in the EPA’s proposed rulemaking for the Renewable Fuels Standard during a hearing Wednesday on Capitol Hill.
“You are going to kill off the biofuels industry before it ever gets started. You’re in bed with the oil companies,” Peterson said to Margo Oge, head of EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality. “Why would you put indirect costs on corn and soybeans and not put it on oil? What about all the indirect of protecting the oil shipping lanes in the Middle East? This is ridiculous what’s going on here.”
“We’re off on some peer review, why aren’t we peer reviewing all these other things? Because people don’t like corn ethanol,” said Peterson.
“I want this message to be sent back down the street,” Peterson continued. “I’m off the train. I will not support any kind of climate change bill. I don’t care. Even if you fix this. Because I don’t trust anybody anymore. I’ve had it.”
Listen to Peterson’s statement here:
Peterson’s vocal opposition to the Obama administration’s priority for climate change legislation prompted a response from Heather Zichal, White House deputy advisor on energy and climate change. “There should be no question – the Obama Administration is committed to renewable fuels,” she said in a statement.
Kum Dollison Said,
May 7, 2009 @ 11:59 am
We warned everyone who wouldn’t listen about getting in bed with the phony, CO2-AGW nonsense. That the “greenies” would come gunning for you as soon as they could.
It’s not “warming” that they’re afraid of; it’s the “prosperity.”