Today in Biofuels Opinion: “CO2 is only half the climate problem.”

Durwood Zaelke, President of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development: “We need meaningful action in Copenhagen to address CO2, but CO2 is only half the climate problem. We also need to take fast and aggressive action to reduce the other, non-CO2 half of warming. Reducing black carbon soot, tropospheric ozone, methane, and HFCs, as well as expanding biosequestration through biochar production, are strategies that can help delay abrupt climate change while we wait for reductions in CO2 to kick in.”

Bob Stallman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation: “It has been estimated that we could have avoided the use of 7 billion gallons of foreign-sourced oil if the ethanol blend level had been raised from E10 to E15. It makes no sense for Americans to subsidize foreign regimes when we have the ability to produce home-grown, renewable fuel…gasoline would have cost five to 10 cents more per gallon if it had not been blended with ethanol….U.S. ethanol production already accounts for 250,000 domestic jobs.”

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