The Honorable Alexander Karsner, Assistant Secretary of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U. S. Department of Energy, was the keynote speaker at today’s National Ethanol Conference general session.

Karsner talks about the unprecedented calls to policy and calls to action and an accelerated time frame when it comes to resolving the issue of our addiction to foreign oil, a term he says that he and his department are comfortable with.

You can listen to his speech here: Hon. Andrew Karsner Speech (36 min MP3)

Follow all the proceedings of the conference on the National Ethanol Conference blog.