Today in Biofuels Opinion: “The campaign is systematically engineering the collapse of America’s fledgling independent renewable fuel and energy producers market.”

Paul Argyropoulos, a senior policy adviser with EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality, on the indirect life cycle emissions report on ethanol being prepared by the EPA: “We believe we are on track for completion of an expedited review. Unless there are some really sticky issues that I am not aware of to get the proposal out, I would say that we could see a proposal out in the next month. We need to emphasize that this is a proposal. It is an opportunity for everyone to chime in on this thing.” http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/02/24/24greenwire-epa-weighs-changes-to-proposed-rfs-rules-emissi-9838.html

From Ethanol producer: “David Blume, executive director of the International Institute for Ecological Agriculture has launched a campaign opposing Texas-based oil refiner Valero Energy Corp.’s bid to acquire the assets of bankrupt ethanol producer VeraSun Energy Corp. Blume said Valero’s offer demonstrates the end-game strategy for last year’s aggressive food versus fuel propaganda and price war manipulation campaign implemented by the International Oil cartel. “The campaign is systematically engineering the collapse of America’s fledgling independent renewable fuel and energy producers market,” he said. Blume said oil companies have used the Commodities Futures Trading system to artificially drive the price of corn up by offering wildly inflated process for corn, while depressing the price of ethanol, essentially gaming the futures market.”

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