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Boston University students award victory to biofuels team in “Great Debate”

April 3, 2008

In Massachusetts, a team composed of REAP Coalition founder Brooke Coleman, American Biofuels Council executive director Sean O’Hanlon, and a college student defeated a team including Energy Tribune editor Robert Bryce and American Enterprise Institute scholar Kenneth Green in “The Great Debate” staged yesterday at Boston University.

The topic of the debate was “Should biofuels and the renewables be critical components of U.S. energy policy?”

Will Thurmond, author of Biodiesel 2020, observed that the affirmative team won “against a polished but unconvincing littany of half-baked theories and critiques without solutions.  I think college students can see through the veneer of the opposing team’s pre-conceived normative ideology using negative criticism tactics.”

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    Written by Jim Lane · Filed Under Policy 

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