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Congressional Budget Office says 2007-08 food price increases mostly caused by fuel prices, not biofuel production; biofuels contributed 10-15 percent of price increase

In Washington, the Congressional Budget Office released its analysis of ethanol consumption and food prices between April 2007 and April 2008, when rising prices led critics to dub the conflict "food ...

Human Ecology article by Pimentel, Cornell colleagues aims to reignite “food vs fuel”, “net energy return” debate on biofuels

An article by longtime biofuels critic David Pimentel in Human Ecology aims to reignite the food vs fuel debate, reporting that US mandates for biofuels increase reliance on fossil fuels and unethical...

Indirect Land Use Change controversy swirls: two Searchinger critiques published; California LCFS comments from New Fuels Alliance, Friends of the Earth, Shell Oil among many others

The Indirect Land Use Change controversy continued to roil as two papers were released critical of the calculations reached by a team led by Tim Searchinger in the seminal Princeton study that ignited...

Fat vs Fuel: Biofuels Digest special report on Indirect Land Use Change and biofuels emissions: first in a series

For some time, the phrase "indirect land use change" has been floating around the biofuels industry. It represents a proposition that increased biofuels production in the United States, by causing pri...

The Top 10 Biofuels Stories of 2008: a Biofuels Digest special report

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A vast, chicken-wing conspiracy

There are vast, right wing conspiracies and vast, left wing conspiracies, but what is facing the biofuels industry is a vast, chicken wing conspiracy. The conspirators are drawn from groups that Da...