Today in Biofuels Opinion: “The unreasonable restrictions placed on the biofuels industry in the 2007 energy bill were never debated by Congress.”

House Agriculture Committee chairman Collin Peterson: “The unreasonable restrictions placed on the biofuels industry in the 2007 energy bill were never debated by Congress, and I’ve spent the past two years trying to undo the damage that we’re seeing now that EPA has published its proposed regulations. You can’t trust them. I no longer have any confidence in the EPA.”

Eugene Bukoveczky in Investopedia: “The combination of strong government support and rising gasoline prices should ensure that the U.S. ethanol industry will continue to evolve. The next phase of production growth should provide investors with materially better outcomes than were experienced during the corn-based start-up phase.”

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