Today in Biofuels Opinion: “If you fill up your car or tractor with a blend containing a percentage of biofuel, then that percentage is helping an Australian farming community somewhere.”

2007 Nuffield Scholar Ronald Thompson, in Farm Online Australia:  “A problem with this country in general is that we haven’t been prepared to take alternative energy on board. Brazil went down this path in the seventies, when it decided to get away from oil dependence and created an agricultural economy around biofuels. If you fill up your car or tractor with a blend containing a percentage of biofuel, then that percentage is helping an Australian farming community somewhere. The remaining percentage is helping some very wealthy Middle Eastern gentleman.”

Carl Rabinowitz, of Citizens Against Refining Ethanol (CARE), on an apparent cancellation of the Northern Ethanol project in Ontario: “Wow, I’m speechless. Wow!  If it means what I think it means, it’s great news.” (The withdrawal) could take the pressure off council.”

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