McAdams: 'Show me the gallons'

Biodiesel Magazine
June 2010
By Ron Kotrba
Posted June 15, 2010

“Show me the gallons,” said Michael McAdams, president of the Advanced Biofuels Association and keynote speaker at the Advanced Biofuels Workshop, which took place June 14 in St. Louis as a co-located event at the 26th International Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo. McAdams said he was bringing the audience into the “no spin zone” and discussed the troubling issues regarding the lapsed biodiesel and other tax credits that are crippling America’s drive toward energy independence.

“It’s not just tax credits that Congress is dealing with,” he said. Health care, oil spill liability, offshore drilling and a number of other pressing issues are occupying Congress’ time. “You pick them and I work with them,” McAdams said. “I protect you from those you elect.” He then observed that he wasn’t sure how the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was ever going to get cleaned up because BP is so busy coming to Washington for hearings.

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