U.S. Agriculture’s Role in the International Biofuels Market
2007
- Iowa State University Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute
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The 2002 Farm Bill was the first farm bill to include an energy title, looking at the potential for U.S. agriculture to partially fulfill domestic energy needs. Congress and the Bush Administration passed the 2005 Energy Policy Act, establishing standards for biorenewable fuel usage in the U.S. President Bush, in his 2006 State of the Union address, made ethanol and U.S. energy security priorities for the federal government. Thus, the federal government has concentrated efforts to expand biorenewable fuel production and consumption over the past few years. And we have seen a dramatic increase in the production and usage of biorenewable fuels over the past 5 years.