Today in Biofuels Opinion: “President-elect Barack Obama plans to support unprofitable U.S. ethanol producers and pursue the same policies that failed George W. Bush”

Mario Parker and Kim Chipman in Bloomberg.com: “President-elect Barack Obama plans to support unprofitable U.S. ethanol producers and pursue the same policies that failed George W. Bush. Obama, the Democratic senator from Illinois, the second- biggest corn-growing state, will maintain Bush’s goal requiring fuel producers use at least 36 billion gallons of biofuels in 2022, said Heather Zichal, the campaign’s senior energy adviser.”

Renewable Fuels Association president Bob Dineen: “I  think Obama sees this as an industry that is evolving and he wants to assure that the evolution can continue. That means that you don’t walk away from the existing industry.”

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