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Vote for Biofuels Personality of the Year 2007

December 20, 2007

Your vote counts! Please take a minute to vote in Biofuels Digest’s “Biofuels Personality of the Year” ballot. Click here to make your choice.

Nominees for this year’s award are:

Gloria Arroyo (President, Philippines )
Ban Ki-moon (UN Secretary-General)
Sir Richard Branson (entrepreneur)
Jeff Broin (CEO, POET)
George W. Bush (US President)
Fidel Castro (former President, Cuba)
Red Cavaney (President, American Petroleum Institute)
Hugo Chavez (President, Venezuela)
Bob Dineen (CEO, Renewable Fuels Association)
Dr Jacques Diouf (Director-General, UN FAO)
Donald Endres (CEO, VeraSun)
José Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo (CEO, Petrobras)
Al Gore (Former US Vice President)
Tom Harkin (Senator, Iowa)
Tony Hayward (CEO, BP)
Vinod Khosla (venture capitalist)
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (President, Brazil)
John McCain (Senator, Arizona)
Elliott Mannis (CEO, D1 Oils)
Rubens Ometto (CEO, Cosan)
David Pimentel (Professor, Cornell)
Bill Richardson (Governor, New Mexico)
Dr. Christopher Somerville (Director, Energy Biosciences Institute)
Dr. Jean Ziegler (UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food)

Write-ins are welcome. Personality of the Year is awarded to the person who has had the most impact on biofuels in 2007, for better or worse.

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