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Ethanol At Crossroads?
By Mr Ethanol | October 24, 2007
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Dakota Farmer:
“Ethanol, and America’s energy future, is at a crossroads,” says Bob Dinneen, president of the Renewable Fuels Association. He spoke at the the Cellulosic Ethanol Summit held in Washington, D.C. and issued the followed statement:
“Either we will continue on a path toward greater energy diversity and security by expanding the current Renewable Fuel Standard to motivate investment in new cellulosic ethanol technologies, or we will succumb to the nattering nabobs of negativity who are seizing upon every unfounded fear to thwart the worldwide movement toward biofuels, leaving us evermore dependent upon petroleum and its environmental and economic consequences.
“Some here might think the choice is obvious. It is not. Well-funded opponents are engaged in a coordinated effort to protect the status quo.
“Some might think this is just about food vs. fuel, and the wildly exaggerated claims that grain-derived ethanol is driving up consumer food prices. It is not. There are groups amassing to slow the drive toward cellulose as well, full of misinformation and distortions about land use, deforestation, water use and infrastructure costs of cellulosic ethanol.
“The insidious campaign being waged today has very little to do with the feedstock for ethanol, and a great deal to do with the loss of petroleum market share that will occur if we are successful. To our opponents, there is no good ethanol or bad ethanol; there is only ethanol, and it’s all bad. Within the ethanol industry, we must not draw meaningless distinctions between feedstocks either; we must propagate the message that all ethanol is good; it’s all better than petroleum.
“We have seen this kind of coordinated offensive of mistruths before. Indeed, many of the same groups fighting biofuels today are among those who just a few years ago sought to discredit scientists focusing the world’s attention on the growing crisis of global climate change. Today, the Nobel Prize is awarded for awakening the world to the reality of global warming, and companies take out full page ads extolling their efforts to improve their ‘carbon footprint.’
“All ethanol, indeed all biofuels, are in this fight together…
Topics: Biofuel, Energy, Ethanol |
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