Media
With the mid-term elections looming on the horizon, we decided to ask several candidates running for office (or re-election) their thoughts and views on biofuels. The candidates were selected based on their current committee positions at the federal and state levels. In the run-up until Nov 4, we will feature their answers right here in Blogging For Biofuels. Kickstarting this series are answers from Sen. Al Franken.
In the second part of our What The Candidates Say series, we bring you Mike McFadden's views on the biofuel industry. McFadden is running against Sen. Al Franken for one of Minnesota's two U.S. Senate seats.
Rep. Collin Peterson, who is running for re-election for Minnesota's 7th Congressional District, is the focus of our latest post on what the candidates say about biofuels.
In the fourth part of our focus on what the candidates say about biofuels, we focus on Sharon Sund who is running against Rep. Erik Paulsen for Minnesota's third congressional district.
Joe Perske is running for the U.S. Representative seat for Minnesota's Sixth Congressional District against Tom Emmer in the upcoming mid-term elections (the seat is currently occupied by Rep. Michelle Bachmann). Here are his responses to our questions on biofuels.
Today, we share with you Rep. Jeanne Poppe's views on biofuels. Poppe is currently the committee chair of the agriculture policy committee in the Minnesota House of Representatives. She is running for re-election for district 27B.
Sales of E85 in August grew 13.22 percent to 1.34 million gallons from 1.19 million gallons in July, according to the Minnesota Department of Commerce.
Today we feature Dennis Schminke who is running against Rep. Jeanne Poppe in District 27B. While Schminke received the same questions we sent to Poppe - and the other candidates featured so far in this series - he chose to provide us instead with his overall view on biofuels. Read on below.
More...
We kickoff the final week before the mid-term elections with views from Rep. Rod Hamilton, who sits on the Agriculture Policy committee in the Minnesota House of Representatives and represents district 22B. Here are his views on biofuels:
Today we feature Cheryl Avenel-Navara's views on biofuels. Avenel-Navara is running against Rep. Rod Hamilton in District 22B. Read her views below.
Today, we share with you Rep. Bob Gunther's views on biofuels. Gunther currently represents district 23A. Read his views on biofuels below.
Today we feature Pat Bacon's views on biofuels. Bacon is running against Rep. Bob Gunther for Minnesota House seat 23A. Read his views below.
For our final segment on what the candidates say on biofuels, we bring you gubernatorial candidate, Jeff Johnson's, views on biofuels.
In the run-up to the Nov 4 midterm elections, we brought you a series of what the candidates said about biofuels. The purpose of the series was to give voters an idea of which candidates, to put it frankly, would be good for the biofuels industry. Now that the elections are done and dusted, we take a look at what the results mean for the biofuel industry.
Congratulations to the Governor and those members, or soon to be members, of the Minnesota House of Representatives and the Minnesota Congressional Delegation for their election victories this past Tuesday. On behalf of the Minnesota Bio-Fuels Association, which represents biofuel producers across Minnesota, we look forward to working with the Governor and newly elected lawmakers as well as those lawmakers who will be returning to office.
Falling corn prices have had little impact on food prices thus refuting the notion that ethanol has driven up food prices, says Renewable Fuels Association chairman, Randall Doyal.