PBS - Presidential Biofuels Station

President Bush welcomed the heads of Detroit’s Big 3 automakers to the White House Monday to discuss the role of ethanol and other biofuels in achieving the president’s goal of reducing gasoline consumption by 20 percent by 2017.  Using this as a hook, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer took a closer look at the merits as a replacement fuel for gasoline.

Participating in that discussion was RFA President and Promoter-in-Chief Bob Dinneen.  As you can tell from the transcript, the discussion did not lack passion as Dinneen took on ethanol armchair critic Robert Bryce over the wisdom of promoting the production and use of ethanol.

As Dinneen pointed out, ethanol is not the sole solution to our nation’s energy needs.  But it is a good foundation and logical place to start.  As he put it, if we don’t start taking steps now to diversify our energy supply, we will never achieve our energy goals.

The transcript can be viewed and heard here:

Online NewsHour: Analysis | President Urges Ethanol Cars | March 26, 2007 | PBS