Today in Biofuels Opinion: “It’s hard to see how any sane person could object to their policy proposals.”

An editorial in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: “It made national headlines last month when some Bloomington school buses stalled during a subzero stretch, forcing the district to cancel classes for a day. The too-quick-on-the-draw mechanical diagnosis? Biofuel that gelled up in the cold. Fox TV commentator Glenn Beck said “Lawmakers put children’s safety at stake because they don’t want their buses to run on a politically incorrect kind of fuel”.. With Minnesota poised to transition to a higher percentage of biodiesel this spring, it’s important to set the record straight on the Bloomington bus issue. Biodiesel wasn’t the culprit causing the school buses to stall out.”

Tom Philpott in Grist: “A coalition of green NGOs — Environmental Working Group, Friends of the Earth, Network for New Energy Choices, the Clean Air Task Force, and New York Public Interest Research Group…charge that in short, biofuels have been an abject failure.”Whether or not you agree with their analysis, it’s hard to see how any sane person could object to their policy proposals, which I’ve pasted below the fold. Their suggestions amount to safeguards to ensure that federal biofuel policies actually reduce greenhouse gas and don’t contribute to a food crisis.

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