Today in Biofuels Opinion: “Joule Technologies is just another snake oil sales firm. How naïve can you get?”

From the LA Times: “After months of promoting President Obama’s climate plan as a vehicle to create millions of clean-energy jobs, supporters of the legislation are increasingly pushing another strategy — its benefits for national security. One recent poll from climate bill supporters tested voter opinions on the statement that global warming would “destabilize developing countries, creating the conditions for war and a breeding ground for terrorism — and lead to mass movements of people from places like Mexico and Central America that will overwhelm our borders…The national poll by Democratic pollster Mark Mellman found voters agreed far more with that stance than with a statement echoing Republican arguments against the bill — chiefly, that it would raise energy prices and kill American jobs.”

From Grist: “Joule Technologies with their 20,000 gallons of biofuel per acre per year technology could make 691,600,000,000 gallons of biofuel on the very same spot in Canada that we have already clearcut for oil sands production. What does this have to do with food-based biofuels? This is another case of bait and switch. Not that I wouldn’t support a magical technology like that, but good God, Joule Technologies is just another snake oil sales firm. How naïve can you get? The EPA was counting on Cello for most of our cellulosic fuel next year, a company just convicted of fraud.”

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