meet the demands of the energy market AND the manufactured products markets for paper, wood, chemical, and pharmaceuticals. Policies that encourage additional demand for biomass should be complemented by policies that increase the available long-term supply of wood to meet future demand for all. The effort to move toward more sustainable forms of fuel is important. However, taking with one hand and giving with another can only create problems, and worst case, it threatens to destroy jobs in a traditional American manufacturing industry. Policymakers must be mindful of this growing demand on our fiber supply and how it affects actual existing jobs. Government mandates and incentives can be taken away as quickly as they are given, and if an industry is reliant on that for its survival, so are its employees. July 23, 2012 5:26 PM Renewable Energy Should Be Market-Based Government mandates are not the answer for encouraging markets for biofuels. Manufacturers of paper and wood products have tremendous long-term opportunities to provide renewable energy in a win-win way for jobs and the economy, but short-term mandates and incentives could threaten supply and costs related to feedstock inventories and, ultimately, jobs. Studies show that per ton of wood used, the forest products industry sustains nine times the number of total jobs as the biomass energy sector. Mandates and incentives for renewable energy projects tend to distort the market for existing forest products manufacturer's raw material: wood. Why is this important? Not only is woody biomass an essential raw material