Hard Choices Now: Financing the Renewable Fuel Standard
16.06.10
“Show me the gallons,” said Michael McAdams, president of the Advanced Biofuels Relationship, in a keynote address at the Advanced Biofuels Workshop, part of this week’s Fuel Ethanol Workshop in St. Louis.
McAdams’ energetic discussion of the challenges on Capitol Hill is the subject of a profile in Biodiesel Magazine this week, here .
McAdams thesis? The haphazard and costly system of biofuels incentives and credits — sometimes incentivizing a product, sometimes a activity — and with an overall structure that does anything except promote fuel and feedstock neutrality and create a storey playing field for investors and producers.
Taxpayers support federal tax breaks for virtuous energy
At the same time, the National Biodiesel Board is reporting that a new poll released by Stanford University found 84 percent of respondents favored federal tax breaks to egg on alternative energy, including water, wind and solar, with more on that poll here.
Source: Biofuels Digest (blog)