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Clinton visits Pioneer facilities, talks ethanol

March 5, 2007 By admin

Senator Hillary Clinton New York Senator Hillary Clinton is touring the research facilities at Pioneer Hi-Bred at this hour, emphasizing her recent call to dedicate more federal resources to the production of ethanol using the entire plant, not just the kernels.

Clinton, a Democratic presidential candidate, suggests the federal government should spend $50 billion dollars on projects that help reach the goals of reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Clinton argues a federal "Strategic Energy Fund" would help more rapidly deploy already-existing technology and accelerate the production of ethanol from the entire corn plant.

Clinton also wants a new federal agency to focus on energy projects. "A research agency similar to one that was started after Sputnik went up called DARPA which stands for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency," Clinton said this morning during an interview with Radio Iowa. "It was out of that agency that we had inventions like the Internet."

According to Clinton, that agency — back in the 1950s and ’60s — focused primarily on the space race and projects for the U.S. military. "The best minds in our country looking at the problems that we confronted back then. We had results that we could have never predicted," Clinton said. "I believe if we did something similar to that with energy, we would just open the door to the innovation of the American spirit and I’d like to see us do that."

Pioneer just received a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to finance some of the company’s research into "cellulosic ethanol." Clinton said that’s the kind of action the federal government should be taking. "It’s just that I believe we have to do much more than the Bush Administration is willing to do," Clinton said.

Clinton also visited with Iowa Democrat lawmakers (see photo), and campaigned last night in Dubuque. 

Audio:Radio Iowa’s O. Kay Henderson report. :46 MP3

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