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Today in Biofuels Opinion: “The only cost-effective option likely to achieve broad market acceptance in the next 20 years is cellulosic-fuel cars.”

June 24, 2008

Vinod Khosla has posted a response at biofuelsdigest.com to recent anti-biofuels editorials: “We face an energy crisis, an environmental crisis and a terrorism crisis all related to oil. High-cost options to reduce consumption, such as hybrid and electric cars, sound good but are unlikely to materially reduce carbon emissions. To have a meaningful impact, at least half of the next billion cars manufactured on this planet must be low-carbon. The only cost-effective option (measured in cost per ton of carbon emissions avoided or grams of carbon emissions per mile driven) likely to achieve broad market acceptance in the next 20 years is cellulosic-fuel cars.”

Seattle Times editorial: “Senator Barack Obama should distance himself from subsidies for food-based biofuels. It was an idea that sounded good but so far has fallen short of its expected potential….Biofuels may have a great future — especially if researchers are successful at making fuel out of agricultural waste, such as waste straw — but for now, the promise has not been met.”

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    Written by Jim Lane · Filed Under Opinion 

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