Here’s something to consider for those trying to hit a moving target like advancing biofuels technology. These are noteworthy quotes from seemingly intelligent people who underestimated the impact of progress.
“Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific
advances.”
Dr. Lee DeForest, inventor of the vacuum tube, the first true amplifying device.
“There is no [...]

Following precisely the pattern demonstrated by the Clueless One with his surge in Iraq, Oregon League of Conservation Voters (OLCV) gives a pat on the back to the Oregon legislators who helped distort and weaken our energy systems even further by voting yes for HB 2210 in their new 2007 session legislative scorecard.
The biofuels [...]

In an article in today’s Salem Statesman-Journal, reporter Steve Law outlines some of the measures we might see on the 2008 ballot:

Climate Change
Coal Fired Electricity Production
Last year we reported that China was bringing one 400 mw coal burning power plant online every week. The picture has changed. They are now bringing two 400 mw generators online each week. A hundred a year. India promises to build a hundred during the next decade.
Atmospheric Carbon
We reported that [...]

As with all addictions, when supply is threatened, we set about finding alternatives, and we become insistent that our need for those alternatives is paramount–so much so that we’re essentially willing to do anything to obtain them.
Yet another savvy observer is trying to warn us that substitutes (hydrogen, biofuels, whatever) are not the solution, only [...]