Bob Tuke on Energy & Oil Democratic challenger

Dependence on foreign oil hurts security & climate

More R&D for Switch Grass as fuel alternative

Tuke says a way to combat rising fuel costs is for the federal government to invest into a long term energy strategy that will result in lowering the nation's dependency on certain petroleum products. He said there is a need for the nation to develop technology to put into place certain fuel alternatives including energy that may be created by wind or further exploration and development of the use of Switch Grass as a fuel alternative.

He noted that Tennessee had been one of the nation's leading states in the research and development of Switch Grass as an energy or fuel alternative. Tuke said he would like to see this research continue as he believes Switch Grass could be a much better resource for fuel than ethanol, a product that uses corn in its production process.