This is one of the most obtuse statements I have ever read.

The ethanol industry, including corn, IS rapidly developing as a bridge to America’s clean energy future. Unfortunately, it is the NRDC and other NGOs that idealize what technology should be able to do that are the true “roadblocks” to that future. Biomass is regional and for the Midwest – whose ethanol industry helped us stem the gasoline price spike while providing over a billion gallons of biogenic oxygenic alternative to toxic, fossil MTBEs – the most sustainable feedstock is corn. In the S.E. the feedstock will be ag and wood residues. In B.C. it will be beetle-kill timber. In cities it will be MSW – IF, and only IF, Luddite NGOs stop roadblocking the development of new technologies by crippling the ones that work. We can NOT get anywhere near to the many near perfect solutions we will need to tackle GHG without first deploying many good, locally sustainable solutions based on indigenous resources. Put a reasonable limit on emissions – that’s understandable. But to put a highly speculative iLUC handicap on some feedstocks is as obstructive as insisting on a zero emissions standard. Who will ever invest in such a scenario? No wonder California is heading for bankruptcy. More important for the NGOs – how can we address our serious GHG and climate change issues if we hinder and delay private industry’s RD&D of solutions? Meanwhile the clock is ticking.