Quotes by Daniel Kammen

“Making ethanol from corn is a good thing if you want to offset fossil fuels from overseas. On the greenhouse gas side of things, it is not clear if corn, as grown today, is a good thing. We just dont know yet, but it appears to be a mildly good thing.”

“This is actually one of the cheapest possible transitions you can make. It cuts the cost of fuel by half at the pump.”

“The people who are saying ethanol is bad are just plain wrong.”

“It is better to use various inputs to grow corn and make ethanol and use that in your cars than it is to use the gasoline and fossil fuels directly.”

“Brazil is a big success story in this.”

“This is actually a switch we could make very easily and very quickly.”

“Converting to fuel ethanol will not require a big change in the economy. We are already ethanol ready. If ethanol were available on the supply side, the demand is there.”

“It looks to be that you can get just about twice the amount of energy by going the cellulose route, and greenhouse emissions are very small.”

“Corn is an OK source for ethanol. But if you really want to hit a homerun, you need to go to cellulose.”

“Corn is an OK source for ethanol. But if you really want to hit a home run, you need to go to cellulose.”