Today in Biofuels Opinion: “Renewable Fuels Are the Cure for Our Addiction to Oil. Unfortunately not.”

From Cattle Network: “In 8 short years, ethanol grew from 1% of the fuel supply to 7% with the help of numerous policy decisions by Congress and state governments…Federal policy and research support for biofuels will keep ethanol as the prime alternative to hydrocarbon fuels as ethanol begins to shift its feedstock from corn to biomass products.”

Michael Grunwald, in Foreign Policy: “Renewable Fuels Are the Cure for Our Addiction to Oil. Unfortunately not. “Renewable fuels” sound great in theory, and agricultural lobbyists have persuaded European countries and the United States to enact remarkably ambitious biofuels mandates to promote farm-grown alternatives to gasoline. But so far in the real world, the cures — mostly ethanol derived from corn in the United States or biodiesel derived from palm oil, soybeans, and rapeseed in Europe — have been significantly worse than the disease.”

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