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 Daniel Gross, writing in Slate, described as “poverty activists, inflation hawks, efficiency freaks and environmentalists”, and are led by a coalition of processed food, meat [...]
Brent Searle, economist with the Oregon Department of Agriculture: “We’re kind of at the stage with biofuels where we were in early computers. They were big. They were clunky. They weren’t as efficient as we’d like them to be. Looking back, they looked pretty silly compared to what we have now … (but) you gotta [...]
There has been some understandable grumbling about the decision to publish a story about a World Bank “secret study,” obtained by the Guardian in the UK, and according to the Guardian story killed by senior management at the Bank to avoid embarrassing US President George W. Bush. The story had a bullet: a finding by [...]
