Fuelling the biofuels debate

Well you have to give it to the New York Times a couple of weeks ago I took severe exception to one of its columnists, Paul Krugman, who had written an appallingly smug piece, “Pointing the finger at biofuels won’t solve the problem“, about the biofuels market. According to Mr Krugman all the evils of the world could be laid squarely at the door of biofuels. In fact, if he were to be believed, we would rather have the four horsemen of the apocalypse trotting down the high street rather than countenance biofuels.

Well this week we have another op/ed columnist at the NY Times, Roger Cohen, whose piece “Bring on the right biofuels” rather neatly offers the other side of the story. In a nutshell he suggests that it is time to ditch the hysteria, look at the science and make positive choices about the biofuels that can help so many. It’s worth a read.

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