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The recent opinion piece by Mark Hendrickson is an unnecessarily vicious attack on farmers and bioethanol based on ignorance of laws, facts, and realities.

By Doug Durante, Executive Director, Clean Fuels Development Coalition Special to the Digest Economics 101 teaches us the way to increase value of any product is to increase demand for that product. In the case of ethanol our historic increase in production has been a result of a corresponding demand increase, driven by a combination of renewable requirements, tax incentives, and just plain value. With tax incentives long gone and RFS requirements leveling off, new demand will require creativity and further defining our value. A recent report by economists at CoBank looked at Forces that Wil...

by Doug Durante (Clean Fuels Development Coalition/Biofuels Digest) … The changing political landscape of the elections and the bi-partisan concern over carbon emissions and potential climate change is an opportunity for biofuels to be a major contributor. Two opportunities are likely to surface early in the new Congress and the Biden Administration. The first is anything to do with Covid-19. The fact that the virus is transmitted through the air ties it to particulate emissions, which we know we can reduce through ethanol blends. Second is what will certainly be a re-boot of the fuel econo...