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Or both? In Senegal, fossil fuel shortages are forcing government leaders to explore every option.
By Andrew Leonard
October 23, 2007
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Follow these rules and you will get social justice, a healthy environment and renewable energy. It's easy!
By Andrew Leonard
September 28, 2007
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Brazil's president, Lula, appears on Charlie Rose, and suggests rich countries should treat biofuel imports as "reparations"
By Andrew Leonard
September 27, 2007
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Global inventories of the grain are plunging and prices are surging. Is the biofuel boogeyman to blame?
By Andrew Leonard
September 4, 2007
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The presidential candidate says there's no need for Americans to choose between their love for monster cars and saving the environment.
By Amanda Griscom Little
September 3, 2007
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Corn? Soybeans? It's time to put away yesterday's biofuel feedstocks and bow to a new contender: The incredibly oleaginous hazelnut.
By Andrew Leonard
August 14, 2007
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But Monsanto says we can do much, much better. So how exactly will the company repeal the laws of corn physics?
By Andrew Leonard
August 10, 2007
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The price of corn is on the rise, the price of sugar is in decline. So which one makes more sense as a biofuel feedstock?
By Andrew Leonard
July 23, 2007
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Europe has too much wine. But does converting the excess into biofuel make even drunken sense?
By Andrew Leonard
June 26, 2007
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What do Chinese government policy toward cellphones and corn-based ethanol have in common?
By Andrew Leonard
June 13, 2007
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First, the biofuel industry came for my tortillas. But then, my tequila? And my beer? Is the apocalypse nigh?
By Andrew Leonard
May 30, 2007
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The president's ethanol push is discouraging the industry from investing in new refinery capacity, executives say. What does the White House think of that?
By Andrew Leonard
May 24, 2007
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Which is the bigger threat to Brazil's rain forest: Locally grown sugar cane, or American corn?
By Andrew Leonard
May 17, 2007
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Who's the culprit in Japan's fruit juice price hikes? Florida weather or Brazilian sugar cane?
By Andrew Leonard
May 11, 2007
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How to simultaneously achieve border control and energy independence, with the help of a "noxious weed"
By Andrew Leonard
May 10, 2007
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First there was a sugar rush. Then a gold rush. Both left unsightly scars on the history of Brazil. What will the ethanol rush bequeath?
May 2, 2007
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All hail the soil scientist: the future of humanity is crumpled in their hands
By Andrew Leonard
April 26, 2007
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Michael Pollan is optimistic that the time has come to remake the farm bill. Has he been to South Dakota lately?
By Andrew Leonard
April 23, 2007
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If the foreign investment in the Brazilian ethanol industry constitutes a new "Great Game," who might end up the loser? A lesson from Afghanistan.
By Andrew Leonard
April 18, 2007
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But is the real villain here biofuels? What about trade rules written at the behest of multinational agribusinesses?
By Andrew Leonard
April 6, 2007
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Robert Rapier, the blogosphere's most dedicated crusader against corn-based biofuel, gets sick in Scotland
By Andrew Leonard
April 6, 2007
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John Deere, the tractor manufacturer, can't get enough of that biofuel love.
By Andrew Leonard
March 29, 2007
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Biofuel demand is boosting sales of the latest biotech crop products.
By Andrew Leonard
March 26, 2007
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Talking that "free trade" talk, the president heads to Brazil to pump up ethanol. Why would anyone doubt his sincerity?
By Andrew Leonard
March 7, 2007
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A House hearing on energy development shockingly features politicians asking experts substantive questions about ethanol and peak oil.
By Andrew Leonard
March 1, 2007
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