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Biofuels trade press acknowledges excise tax credits duplicate renewable fuel standards
by dkoplow on Feb 8, 2011
During the early part of 2010, when the volumetric ethanol excise tax exemption (VEETC) looked like it was heading towards elimination, ethanol industry contortionist Bob Dinneen of the Renewable F
...Boyden Gray: Indirect land use impacts from biofuels just "flat wrong"
by dkoplow on Feb 9, 2010
It has been a banner couple of weeks for the ethanol industry. To my inbox come their daily proclamations and jubilations over a reprieve they have been given in a recent US EPA analysis of G
...A Boon to Bad Biofuels: Federal Tax Credits and Mandates Underwrite Environmental Damage at Taxpayer Expense
Federal Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) were nearly quintupled in the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act, mandating use of 36 billion gallons of biofuels per y
