RFA Chief Addresses World Conference
Dinneen asks for greater cooperation to move common vision forward.
Compiled by staff
Published: Nov 3, 2009
Speaking in Paris, France Tuesday, Bob Dinneen, President and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association, was expected to urge global biofuel leaders to work together to advance commonly shared goals. In his prepared speech at the F.O. Licht's World Ethanol 2009 Conference, Dinneen challenged the world ethanol industry to reject all the differences, divisions and diversions.
"We must come together behind our common agenda, take on our common threats, and put forward our common vision of producing energy, preserving the environment, and promoting economic opportunity for all the people on this planet," he said.
Dinneen said that petroleum is the problem and ethanol is part of the solution. Using the U.S. experience as the baseline, Dinneen also called on nations to implement consistent and sustainable public policies that encourage domestic biofuels development while meeting the energy, environmental and economic goals of each individual nation.
"We need to move forward together without cannibalizing each other's markets, or we all will fall behind separately with only the consolation that somewhere, someone is doing even worse than we are," Dinneen said.
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