Ethanol Industry Chief Featured in NY Times
The president and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association had a chat with the New York Times this week about the whole issue of indirect land use changes and ethanol.
Bob Dinneen is featured in a post today on the NY Times “Green Inc.” blog in a post by reporter Kate Galbraith.
Mr. Dinneen emphasized that his group was perfectly willing to factor in such indirect land-use changes. But he expressed concern that biofuels are the only industry for which this calculation is made. Petroleum, for example, does not factor in land use changes — and besides, he said, “Where’s the carbon impact associated with development in suburbia?”
“They can’t just do it to us and not to everyone else,” he argued.
Mr. Dinneen welcomed the comment period that will follow the E.P.A.’s proposals, and said that the ethanol industry believed that adjustments on the land-use front are needed.
“Right now, I think the model is too uncertain, the assumptions are out of whack and it needs to be promulgated more fairly,” he said.
Read the whole post here.
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David
Agree.
To get a level playing field , the indians who burn down large parts of the Amazon rain forest every year for their slash and burn agriculture, need the same standards that the EPA is trying to selectively apply to the fuel alcohol industry.
We should be good stewards of the earth but not stupidly follow the “new Ice age is coming” or “we are all going to cook” fear mongering of the momment.
The American wooley mamonths or California saber tooth tigers did not die off bcease of SUVs.
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