All Entries in the "Opinion" Category
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “IPO fever…rumors are circulating that Amryis…could be one of the next to file.”
Michael Kanellos in Seeking Alpha: “IPO fever is gripping greentech, and rumors are circulating that Amryis, the company that made synthetic biology a household word, could be one of the next to file. The company, which was spun out of research conducted at UC Berkeley, could file the necessary documents for an IPO in the [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “No wonder that the EPA has long taken the correct position that increased use of biomass fuels is (at a minimum) “carbon neutral.”
C. Boyden Gray: “According to the government’s own Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks in 2007, carbon stocks in U.S. forests continue to grow at a rate of over 800 million metric tons of CO2 equivalents per year — about 10 percent of total annual greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. No wonder [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “There is some good and some bad in the renewable fuel standard final rule announced today.”
House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson: “Typical of most decisions made in Washington, there is some good and some bad in the renewable fuel standard final rule announced today. To think that we can credibly measure the impact of international indirect land use is completely unrealistic, and I will continue to push for legislation that prevents [...]
DOE turns to 1984’s “Newspeak” in bid to rub out references to biofuels?
Unwelcome in Washington. Despite the substantial investments in bioenergy in FY 2011 in the DOE budget, we note that Energy Secretary Chu carefully omitted all references to bioenergy in his remarks to the Senate Energy & Natural Resources community, referring only to investments in wind, solar, geothermal and nuclear energy. Also, we note that a [...]
72 percent of biofuels industry leaders support Obama shift on US biofuels policy
In Florida, 72 percent of biofuels industry leaders indicated in a Biofuels DIgest poll that they had a favorable reaction to this week’s announcements of a shift in Obama Administration policy on biofuels. 50 percent said that they had a “highly favorable” reaction, while 5 percent said they were neutral and 22 percent had an [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “The ethanol industry really is sort of stepping up to the bar and saying we are no different than any other industry group.”
Gen. Wesley Clark, co-chairman for Growth Energy: “The ethanol industry really is sort of stepping up to the bar and saying we are no different than any other industry group. We have got to help people understand what the industry needs because it has to be dealt with in certain ways that are conducive to [...]
“and the role of the Deus Ex Machina will be played by President Obama”: A Biofuels Digest editorial
Last night, Jon Stewart, appearing on Bill O’Reilly’s “O’Reilly Factor” on FOX, criticized the Obama Administration for adopting a laid-back attitude in terms of controlling its political agenda. “It allows too much room for different narratives to take hold,” Stewart said of the Obama Administration’s approach.
As once was said by Lyndon Johnson of Walter Cronkite, [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: Reaction to Obama Administration on new biofuels policies, EPA, USDA rules
Nathanael Greene, NRDC’s director of renewable energy policy
“The final rule confirms that some biofuels reduce global warming and some pollute more than gasoline and diesel. This proves how important it is to put policies in place to make sure public dollars go to support real renewable energy instead of going after options that do not [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “This approach, we fear, drives a systematic bias toward lending for power generation projects.”
A letter to Energy Secretary Chu from 11 cellulosic ethanol CEOs and directors: “The Department is obligated by statute to determine that LGP-funded projects offer a “reasonable prospect of repayment” (EPAct Section 1702(d)(1)). We understand that, at present, the LGP Office is interpreting this obligation as requiring long-term, fixed-price offtake agreements as one of the [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “The CRP has done more harm to not only to our rural landscape but has resulted in absentee land ownership.”
Toby Cohen, head of analysis at Czarnikow: “Despite the rise in the price of sugar last year the full impact of the supply problems which triggered last year’s doubling of the sugar price, are still to be recognised. The key sugar-producing economies ran down their stocks last year, which means they will be restricted in [...]
