And More FUD

A NYTimes piece with more FUD about biofuels and greenhouse gas pollution:

"Almost all biofuels used today cause more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fuels if the full emissions costs of producing these “green” fuels are taken into account, two studies being published Thursday have concluded..."

“When you take this into account, most of the biofuel that people are using or planning to use would probably increase greenhouse gasses substantially,” said Timothy Searchinger, lead author of one of the studies and a researcher in environment and economics at Princeton University. “Previously there’s been an accounting error: land use change has been left out of prior analysis.”

There's also been some discussion about the issue in the comments of another post here on the biodiesel blog.

Virgin Air Biofuel

Here's a Chronicle piece about Virgin Atlantic testing biofuel in a London/Amsterdam flight sometime in February.

Film: Fields of Fuel

Fields of Fuel looks really good. Here's the trailer:

American Freedom Biodiesel

On a recent roadtrip through the northwest USA, I filled up on biodiesel in a bunch of places. Here's the brochure from American Freedom Biodiesel in Salt Lake City, UT:

Forbes on 2008+ Diesels

Forbes.com has an article about some diesels reaching all 50 US states in 2008 and beyond, including:

• 2009 Jetta TDI
• BMW X5 Xdrive 35d
• BMW 335d
• Audi Q7 TDI
• Audi A4 TDI
• Mercedes ML 320 Bluetec
• Mercedes R 320 Bluetec