Comments on: EPA Responds to Indirect Land Use for Ethanol Issue http://domesticfuel.com/2009/05/13/epa-responds-to-indirect-land-use-for-ethanol-issue/ Alternative Fuel News Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:37:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Reece http://domesticfuel.com/2009/05/13/epa-responds-to-indirect-land-use-for-ethanol-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-113485 Reece Thu, 14 May 2009 17:29:18 +0000 http://domesticfuel.com/?p=12785#comment-113485 This goes to show - the Big Oil lobyists are smarter and more experienced at this game than the ethanol lobbyists. What a great lesson. Now we see the downstream effect of the oil lobby getting one legislator to insert one seemingly-simple sentence into a bill. “The statute specifically includes ’significant emissions from land use changes’ within the concept of indirect emissions,” she said. “Excluding indirect land use changes - whether domestic or international - from the analysis would depart from both the statutory text and from the scientific thrust of the requirement of lifecycle analysis.” This goes to show – the Big Oil lobyists are smarter and more experienced at this game than the ethanol lobbyists. What a great lesson. Now we see the downstream effect of the oil lobby getting one legislator to insert one seemingly-simple sentence into a bill.

“The statute specifically includes ’significant emissions from land use changes’ within the concept of indirect emissions,” she said. “Excluding indirect land use changes – whether domestic or international – from the analysis would depart from both the statutory text and from the scientific thrust of the requirement of lifecycle analysis.”

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