Posts Tagged: ethanol

The rise and fall of a once promising biofuel

Image by JJ Gouin.

by KURT SCHUPARRA posted 08.14.2025

OPINION – Making a correction the commercial potential of cellulosic biofuels is hard, but not making one all but ensures a more disappointing outcome.

OPINION: When the Greek philosopher Aristotle presented fellow scholars with empirical evidence and scientific proof that the world was round—not flat—around 330 BC, he was called a lunatic and a charlatan. More than two millennia later, Sacramento has its own version of the Flat Earth Society — the California Air Resources Board (ARB). Only this time, the debate isn’t over the shape of the Earth; it’s over an obscure regulatory concept known as Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC), a component of the state’s Low Carbon Fuels Standard (LCFS).