Archive for June, 2008

Changes at Biofuels Digest

Readers who have been frequenting Biofuels Digest will note that a redesign debuted today. I hope you find the new format easier to navigate.
The biggest change - besides the look - is the addition of Sean O’Hanlon and Will Thurmond as Digest columnists. Sean O’Hanlon is the founder and executive director of the American [...]

Chasing down 36 billion gallons of ethanol

Now that the Energy Bill has become the Energy Independence Act of 2007, let’s not forget that there are a lot of people — friends, neighbors, competitors, adversaries — who think that 36 billion gallons is an awful lot of ethanol.
It’s right for them to feel troubled and worried about the journey we have set [...]

How Fidel Castro biofooled the world

“‘Change, change, change!”‘ Fidel Castro wrote, regarding the US Presidential campaign, in a column published this morning in Havana. “I agree, ‘change!’ but in the United States,” he continued. “I enjoyed seeing the embarrassing position of all the U.S. presidential candidates.”
However, change appears to be coming more quickly for Cuba’s biofuels policy than for Castro’s [...]