Biofuels - At What Cost? Government support for ethanol and biodiesel in the United States: 2007 Update.

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Biofuels - At What Cost? Government support for ethanol and biodiesel in the United States: 2007 Update.
Coverage: USA
Resource Type: Energy
Object Type: Publication or article
Attributed Authors: Doug Koplow
Publication Date: Oct 31, 2007

Abstract

ReportSummary slides from release.  Growing production and more subsidies converge to trigger an estimated $93 billion in support to ethanol and biodiesel for the 2006-12 period.  The report also contains a detailed review of the large and potentially environmentally harmful biofuels subsidies in the pending Energy and Farm bills. Prepared fo the Global Subsidies Initiative. (Oct. 2007).

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