Today in Biofuels Opinion: “The sector is not the new tobacco industry – tobacco is inherently bad, air travel is inherently good”.

Peter Bombay, of the European Commission’s Air Transport Unit, on aviation and emissions: “The sector is not the new tobacco industry – tobacco is inherently bad, air travel is inherently good. Underline your environmental track record. The sector has been doing good things. Over the past 40 years you have improved fuel efficiency by 70% and that is a major achievement. But do not use this track record – and IATA is very good at this – to conclude that in the future technology and operational measures will solve everything. They won’t.”

SNPAA, the organization of French ethanol producers, on the phaseout of biofuel subsidies: “A vote for this proposal as it stands would rapidly lead to a collapse of the French bioethanol sector and the destruction of thousands of jobs.”

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