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	View Edit Domain: BioEnergy Title: * Body: Senators Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and John Thune, R-S.D., held a hearing on "Expanding the Role of Biofuels for America" in Sioux City, Iowa this week. <br /> <br /> In his opening statement Senator Harkin was quick to point out that producing and using more biofuels are among our most important strategies for reducing our dependence on foreign oil. He said that Congress recognizes this.<br /> <br /> Harkin noted the new farm bill has payments, grants, and loan guarantees to help farmers and biorefineries develop advanced biofuels, grow biomass crops, process them and market biofuels. It does so with grants and loan guarantees, payments for biomass crops, payments to farmers to begin to grow energy crops, and payments for feedstock harvesting and delivery to user facilities.<br /> <br /> During the hearing, Harkin pointed to two pieces of legislation in the new Congress aimed at improving distribution and marketing for biofuels. The first authorizes loan guarantees for renewable biofuels pipelines to provide critical infrastructure for transporting these fuels from the Midwest to population centers east and west. The second bill would require 90% of vehicles manufactured in the U.S. to be flex fuel by the year 2013. The bill also would require increasing numbers of blender pumps – pumps that can dispense ethanol blends ranging from 0% to 85% - and authorize grants to support their installation. <br /> <br /> ©2009 All rights reserved.<br /> Captcha: Please Enter Code : * Time Zone: * Select the time zone Vocabularies Newsletter: Domain: Show summary in full view Input format Filtered HTML Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. Lines and paragraphs break automatically. Full HTML Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. Lines and paragraphs break automatically. news_filter Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. More information about formatting options			Related Articles IHI plans algae biofuel R&D firm The ethics of biofuels EU Biofuels Targets to Cost $166 Billion, Study Says Disputes lurk behind biofuel projects - study Rethinking land use for biofuels Biomass Can Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Along with Coal USDA Announces Funding for Two Renewable Energy Programs French GDF Suez keen to invest 100M euro in biomass projects... John Lindt: Biofuel maker to double employees Novozymes explores seaweed-to-ethanol in India Top BioEnergy Articles

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