Biofools or Bio-Heroes?
It’s pretty much a badge of honor in the biofuels industry to be nominated by Friends of the Earth as “Biofool of the Year.”
Growth Energy is calling this year’s nominees “Bio-Heroes” in a blog post today.
“Critics of biofuels would go to great lengths to distort the truth and smear the records of supporters. One doesn’t have to look far to find the silliness to which some would stoop. Friends of the Earth, one such group determined to embarrass themselves into irrelevance, went so far as to try to attract media attention to their poorly uninformed and sadly named “Biofool of the Year” award,” reads the post. “At Growth Energy, instead of heaping ridicule on leaders that want to break our country’s addiction to foreign oil, we choose to laud them, and ask others to support their efforts.”
This year’s nominees are Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), General Wesley Clark, Secretary Tom Vilsack, and the editors of Domestic Fuel – Chuck and Cindy Zimmerman. Vote for your favorite here.
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Bob Winnson
Friends of the Earth…more like Friends of the Enemy. Organizations like FOE receive oil and food company funding, as well as mega investment bank funding, through non-profits that pass tens of millions of dollars around between each other (given by oil, food, and banks), until it arrives “clean” at FOE. The sad thing is, some of their lower level employees and volunteers likely do not know this yet. I would expect that their higher level employees do.
These foolish organizations are pawns in the games played by the mega corporations and mega banks. It’s as simple as that. And so yes, it is an honor for the winners of their awards, as it means that they are doing something honorable enough to be targeted by the oil, food, and mega bank crowd.
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