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From: Bearcatbob	4/12/2008 3:03:29 PM
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Policy Matters? "Increase Renewable Fuel Standard: Obama will require 36 billion gallons of renewable fuels to be included in the fuel supply by 2022 and will increase that to at least 60 billion gallons of advanced biofuels like cellulosic ethanol by 2030." Time magazine ran a cover story last month bluntly titled "The Clean Energy Scam." "European lawmakers seem anxious to brake the biofuel bandwagon. On Thursday, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on G-8 countries "urgently to examine the impact on food prices of different kinds and production methods of biofuels, and ensure that their use is responsible and sustainable." France's agriculture minister has promised to unveil proposals at next week's European Union agriculture council that will ensure "absolute priority must be given to agricultural production for food" over biofuels. Germany's environment minister Sigmar Gabriel said this month that he was considering canceling laws requiring a minimum of 10% of petrol be plant-sourced by next year, and 17% by 2020. " "A peer-reviewed study in Science magazine last month suggests that, as countries bulldoze rainforest and peat swamp forests, considered critical "carbon sinks", to expand biofuel crops, the net impact on CO2 levels appear worse than sticking with oil." "But the political field is tilting. Cattle, turkey, chicken and pork producer associations, squeezed by feed prices, are demanding Congress abandon ethanol subsidies." Time magazine ran a cover story last month bluntly titled "The Clean Energy Scam."

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