Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Monday, March 12, 2012

Obama: “electricity, biofuels or natural gas, we’ll help you cut through the red tape and build fueling stations.”

Biofuels Digest
Thomas Saidak March 9, 2012

In North Carolina, speaking at the Daimler Trucks North America facility in Mount Holly, President Obama made the following statement:

“To cities and towns all across the country, what we’re going to say is, if you make a commitment to buy more advanced vehicles for your community — whether they run on electricity or biofuels or natural gas — we’ll help you cut through the red tape and build fueling stations nearby. And we’ll offer tax breaks to families that buy these cars, companies that buy alternative fuel trucks like the ones that are made right here at Mount Holly. So we’re going to give communities across the country more of an incentive to make the shift to more energy-efficient cars.”

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