Posted on April 27, 2008 by pwintersatbiodotorg
Politicians are now beginning to call for a repeal of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) recently announced that she would introduce legislation to freeze the biofuel mandate at current levels, saying, “Expanding biofuels while refusing to take other measures, such as lifting the ban on oil and natural gas production [...]
Filed under: Food and Fuel, Oil prices, biofuel | Tagged: biofuel, biotech crop, crop prices, environment, Food and Fuel, food shortage, food vs. fuel, oil demand, OPEC, renewable fuel standard | 2 Comments »
Posted on April 17, 2008 by pwintersatbiodotorg
A new study released by Texas A&M’s Agricultural and Food Policy Center undermines one of the key assumptions used in the studies that attributed a huge “carbon debt” to biofuels.
The assumption used by Searchinger et al. is that biofuel production increases the cost of all commodity grains, encouraging countries to convert additional land – such [...]
Filed under: Climate Change, Food and Fuel, Greenhouse Gas Emission, Oil prices, biofuel | Tagged: biofuel, Food and Fuel, food vs. fuel, Land Use Change, Searchinger | No Comments »
Posted on April 11, 2008 by nicoleatbio
Don’t miss US Rep. Herseth-Sandlin (D-SD) questioning big oil companies: ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, ConocoPhillips, and Shell
Filed under: Oil prices, biofuel, ethanol | Tagged: biofuels, congress, hearing, oil, Oil prices | No Comments »
