[IronJack]

For others — like many economists — it's a wasteful misuse of resources.

The resources belong to the farmers who grew them, not to the "economists," who are a bunch of ivory-tower pencil-pushers.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#6: "The resources belong to the farmers who grew them, not to the "economists," who are a bunch of ivory-tower pencil-pushers."

Of course. And any true economist would point out that this policy is for the free market to decide, not lawmakers.

If biodiesel is useful, there will be a market for it. It's not for congress to tamper with the free market by mandating that biodiesel be produced and consumed.
 

[ConservativeMind]

Farmers can freely do this and the rest of us should be free to not buy their cr@p.