#3. “The Amazon Rainforest is not being used for sugar cane for ethanol. This is absolutely wrong! The Amazon region is far from the consumer centers and ports to ship. It needs water in the soil. It is a stupidity to grow cane in the Amazon rainforest. It is stupidity. We will never destroy the Amazon rainforest for sugar cane biofuels.”

- Roberto Rodrigues, former Brazilian Minister of Agriculture, Co-Chairman of the Interamerican Ethanol Commission (IEC)

Note: When a student came up to ask him if he would go on record saying that, he dodged the question by not answering it. As far as I am concerned, he went on record saying that when he got up to talk. - SRO

#2. “It’s cheap as dirt to dig up coal.”
- Klaus S. Lackner, Ewing-Worzel Professor of Geophysics at Columbia

Note: It’s as cheap as coal to dig up coal…unless you ask those that are being affected by mountaintop removal. - SRO

#1. “Clean coal” as part of a solution in memo to the upcoming President.

- Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute of Columbia

Note: He also directly quoted his book review in The Economist in the Presidential memo, which said, “If everyone were as sensible as Jeffrey Sachs…” - SRO

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