Today in Biofuels Opinion: “It will be 35 years next week since President Richard Nixon, responding to an Arab oil embargo, vowed to make the United States energy independent – and do it in seven years.”

Gary Truitt writing in Hoosier Ag Today: “Don’t Put on the Black Dress The Patient Isn’t Dead. When crude oil prices hit $60 a barrel and gas prices dipped below $2, you could almost hear an audible sigh from those who never really believed the energy crisis was real and felt renewable fuel was just a fad…But, before you declare the patient dead, you might want to take a closer look.”

AP writer H Josef Hebert: “It will be 35 years next week since President Richard Nixon, responding to an Arab oil embargo, vowed to make the United States energy independent – and do it in seven years. America is still waiting. Now as Barack Obama and John McCain vie to become the next president, a promise of U.S. energy independence again has become a rallying cry on the campaign trail. Is it possible, or even desirable? Many energy experts say it’s not. People disagree on what energy independence means – zero energy imports, or something less?”

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