Energy security, emission mandates on collision course, economist warns

Biofuels Digest

In Iowa, Iowa State University economist Robert Wisner warns that the EISA Act and the EPA’s interpretation of emissions mandates are on “collision course,” and that “If changes are not made, their different paths could slow or halt the growth of some parts of the biofuels industry.”

Wisner has assembled one of the most intelligently-presented analyses of EISA, the EPA’s proposed interpretation of emissions data and land use change, and work at the Air Resources Board of the California Environmental Protection Agency.

Wisner’s thesis is that the flaws lie within EISA itself: it “requires a gradual increase in the volume of various kinds of biofuels to be blended with U.S. motor fuels in the next several years. The gradual increase was designed to provide time for technology development and industry growth.

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