Today in Biofuels Opinion: “The Democrats will run their bill, the Republicans will run our bill, none of them will reach 60, and my guess is that’s where everything stops.”

Senator John Thune (R-SD), on the prospects that the House Energy bill will pass in the Senate this year: “It would definitely be the triumph of hope over experience. The Democrats will run their bill, the Republicans will run our bill, none of them will reach 60, and my guess is that’s where everything stops.”

David Tilman, ecologist at the University of Minnesota, on corn-based ethanol: “You suddenly have a biofuel that releases more greenhouse gas than if you just burn gasoline. It actually harms the global climate.”

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