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Mr. Tilman may be right in that the future of biofuels has much less of an impact on our food supply. However, cellulosic ethanol is not a present reality. The current situation is that we have politicians and agriculture lobbyists out there pushing corn based ethanol as if it's the solution to all of mankind's energy problems. And the result is that we get a lot of people who don't know the reality of the situation piling on the bandwagon which causes all of these problems with food supplies right now. What we need from people like Mr. Tilman is to cut through all the hype, and educate politicians and investors that biofuels, while very promising, are not quite ready for the spotlight. When cellusic ethanol moves out of those test fields in Minnesota and into a commercial atmosphere, then Mr. Tilman's speech will have relevance. Until then though, he's just compounding the problem.