Obama using Executive Power to sidestep (R) obstructionism of renewable energy
Biofuels are not considered a viable option for personal transportation, but they are going to be essential for heavy duty applications such as shipping, aviation, construction equipment and agriculture. To achieve the goal of affordable biofuels for these applications new processes for producing the fuel must be made practical and scaled up; a goal that requires a market that will attract private investment in the manufacturing facilities that compete against fossil fuels.
This is a small slice of one of the best ways I've seen our President exercise his Executive Powers. He has done it not only in the military with biofuels, solar, wind and energy efficiency; but also in almost every area of government that he has direct control over.
So while there has been almost no progress on climate/energy big-picture legislation or international agreements, his behind the scenes approach has been yielding remarkable success in laying the economic groundwork for a viable infrastructure to move us away from fossil fuels.
The naysayers who would have you believe otherwise are full of it.
Domestic, diversified military fuels or affordable fuels? "False choice!" says Obama.
By Jim Lane, Biofuels Digest
July 3, 2012
It's finally here. The Obama Administration has laid out an integrated strategy for commercializing advanced biofuels, with a focus in this phase on military advanced biofuels at cost-competitive prices with conventional fuels.
The vehicle is a joint program between the DOE, USDA and the Department of Defense (principally, starring the US Navy, though, as we’ll see, critically including other elements).
In his Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future released in March 2011, President Obama set a goal of reducing oil imports by one-third by 2025 and laid out an all-of-the-above energy plan to achieve that goal by developing domestic oil and gas energy resources, increasing energy efficiency, and speeding development of biofuels and other alternatives.
It’s a huge step in the journey toward those goals — a multi-step, integrated program that we’ll investigate in today’s Digest, and provide to you in a convenient 10-Minute Guide with links to the full funding announcements....
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/07/the-obama-plan-for-cost-competitive-military-biofuels-the-10-minute-guide?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-July4-2012
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