Today in Biofuels Opinion: “It turns out that the Straight Talk Express is a flex-fuel vehicle.”

Ben Whitford, in Plenty magazine: “It turns out that the Straight Talk Express is a flex-fuel vehicle: when the going gets rough, John McCain is willing to fill up on ethanol in order to keep his dreams of winning the White House alive. On the stump this week in Iowa – the king of the corn states – McCain told voters that his administration would “invest in all energy alternatives: nuclear, wind, tide, solar, ethanol, biofuels.”

Congressman Jay Inslee of Washington state: “I ask you to contact your Congressmen and tell them what’s going on in your (algae) labs. You must become engaged with Washington, D.C. through work with the Algal Biomass Organization. Just as the generation before us changed the world through victory in World War Two, our generation can change the world by providing long-term clean energy sources.”

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