Ethanol Statistics, a Netherlands-based market research and business information publisher, recently went to the expert on ethanol to do a feature about the future of the industry.

Bob Dinneen, president of the Renewable Fuels Association, is much more positive about ethanol in the United States because he knows why consumption has been lagging behind, because he knows what are and what aren’t showstoppers for the industry, and more importantly, because he probably knows more about upcoming legislation than anyone else. In an interview with Ethanol Statistics he ‘announced’: “It will be a busy 12 months with respect to legislation in Washington, I suspect.”

Ethanol Statistics also reports that Dinneen is pretty optimistic that the Senate will get an energy bill done by the end of the year, even though he thinks that “Washington is a dysfunctional place right now, in which it is far more easy to stop legislation than to pass legislation.”