The clock is ticking down on the comment period for the expanded Renewable Fuels Standard, better known as RFS2. The Environmental Protection Agency will be taking comments until September 25th – just 18 days from now.
Bob Dinneen, president and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) is urging ethanol supporters to make their voices heard now on this important issue. “I am concerned that (the EPA) get this regulation implemented right,” Dinneen said during an interview last week at Farm Progress Show. “This is the first time the agency has been tasked with the responsibility of determining the carbon footprint of an industry and they are learning that’s not an easy thing to do and there is no scientific consensus to do it.”
Dinneen calls the principal of indirect land use being considered by the EPA “not just not scientifically sound, but silly” because it literally equates an acre of land used to grow ethanol in the United States with an acre of Brazilian land forest being destroyed. “This is a very big issue and we’re a long way from having it resolved.”
RFA has provided a simple way for people to make comments to the agency through an online advocacy tool at the website ChooseEthanol.com. Comments need to be received by EPA no later than September 25, 2009.
CEO Leonard Kosar says America needs a hero in the biofuels business. “HERO BX stands for high-quality biodiesel and that is what we produce everyday using multiple feedstocks,” said Kosar. “In the future, we will utilize our proprietary blending technology to determine what the most efficient and cost competitive second and third generation feedstocks are and add them to our feedstock portfolio. We are not only a biodiesel company, we are a fuel technology company.”
Two years ago, a biodiesel-powered motorcycle made a 3,000 km (1,800 miles) trip across Australia(see 
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Approximately 55 percent of the crop, or 438.56 million tons, is intended for ethanol production, which will generate 9.13 billion liters of 
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) hosted officials from the Environmental Protection Agency last week for a tour of agriculture and biofuels in Iowa. Gina McCarthy, Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation, and Margo Oge, Director of the Office of Transportation and Air Quality, represented EPA on the visit that included the BioCentury Research Farm in Boone, an Iowa family farm and the 
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A group that touts its efforts to promote “the sustainable production and equitable distribution of energy and food in communities across Minnesota” has issued a report on the renewable fuels used for transportation in this country.
[W]e do intend for Transportation Biofuels in the United States to act as a tool to provide an overview of the current status of major developments in the biofuels industry. We highlight recent changes in biofuels production processes, biomass development, and federal level policies such as the Biomass Crop Assistance Program. We also review unavoidable issues including the food versus fuel debate and the difficult indirect land use change debate. Our intention is not to criticize, cheerlead, or otherwise deny or approve particular results or arguments. Instead, our purpose is to provide information, pose questions, and seek objective analysis of the information that is currently available. Only through an open discussion may we most effectively find root problems and appropriate solutions. We believe that through honest evaluation and analysis, this wave of biofuels will not only stay together, but carry us all in the right direction.