WASHINGTON — Reacting to the Senate’s passage of H.R. 6, the Clean Energy Act of 2007, Cal Dooley, president and chief executive officer of the Grocery Manufacturers Association here, said Friday that the association was “disappointed the Senate did not heed the warnings … about the adverse impacts an aggressive [ethanol] mandate could have on food prices and the environment.” The bill includes a provision that would mandate a fourfold increase in ethanol use by 2022. Dooley said the uncertainty surrounding the technical and financial viability of cellulosic ethanol “makes it prudent to have a relief valve that would waive the ethanol mandate if food prices rise to unacceptable levels or the adverse impacts on the environment become too great.” The GMA is hopeful, he added, that the House of Representatives will take its concerns into consideration as that body takes up the issue in the next few weeks.
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