“A Vast, Chicken-Wing Conspiracy”: a report on the forces aligning against biofuels

“There are vast, right wing conspiracies and vast, left wing conspiracies, but what is facing the biofuels industry is a vast, chicken wing conspiracy,” writes Biofuels Digest editor Jim Lane, in detailing a fractious host of forces seeking to derail the biofuels industry over food and emission issues. “The conspirators are what Daniel Gross, writing in Slate, called “poverty activists, inflation hawks, efficiency freaks and environmentalists”, and are led by a coalition of food producers, meat and poultry producers. As a collective, they don’t share much in common save a common enemy in corn ethanol. But they are well-funded, ardent, and aim for the kill. Here’s who they are and how they operate.” Read the full essay here.

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