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Ethanol industry missing the point again

06/18/09

Ethanol industry missing the point again

Permalink 11:51:55 am, Categories: News items  

According to Ethanol Producer magazine, the CEO of BBI Mike Bryan expresses shock that the public is actually paying attention to indirect 'push back' issues related to agrofuels:

FEW: Ethanol industry must ‘take back the message’ about ethanol

Bryan misses the point at least twice in the following quote:

"Someone worked to create an image that is false: (that ethanol is a major cause for increased food prices and for deforestation in other countries)."

The first misconception is that there is a very recent conscious attempt to discredit an industry, rather than a longer-term careful consideration of the issues by scientists and other scholars. Scholars that were marginalized and therefore initially ignored by those on the biofuels bandwagon.

The second misconception is that the major concern is current increased food prices and current deforestation. Of course, these are concerns. But the big concern is what WILL happen if mandates demand a multifold increase in biofuels production. Current unintended ill-effects are minuscule compared to what MUST happen under projected increases in agrofuels crops.

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