New Math: will E15 rules, biomass supply barriers frustrate biofuels’ best intentions

Biofuels Digest
October 20, 2010
Jim Lane

Tomorrow, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will give a major address at the National Press Club, and is expected to outline a positive, broad outline of progress towards, and confidence in, the laudable RFS with its promise of green jobs, energy independence and rural economic development.

There’s reason for Vilsack’s optimism. Over the next week, we’ll be profiling communities in Florida and Iowa where that promise is turning into local reality. We’ll also profiling several Caribbean communities where that promise might well be duplicated and provide tourism-driven developing communities with some of the same stability that renewable energy has brought to economies that were overly dependent on real estate and agriculture in Florida and Iowa.

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