Bipartisan Biofuels

Oil prices and politics. The two biggest influences on the future of alternative fuels are hot topics right now. Conventional wisdom holds that with the imminent Democratic takeover of Congress, the United States could be receiving a much-needed boost in the support of alternative energy technologies. While biofuels have garnered bipartisan support, Democrats are planning several initiatives that will help meet their goal of having ethanol available at 10 percent of domestic gas stations by 2015. Add to that a mandate that would require automakers to boost production of flex fuel vehicles, a push that most Democrats believe is necessary—whether the oil companies like it or not.

Is this the direction in which you want to see America heading? Can you see yourself driving a flex fuel vehicle and filling up at a local station in just a few years? Click the comments section below and let your position be known.