BIOMASS HUB

Amory Lovins, chairman and chief scientist at the Rocky Mountain Institute, argues that oil is on its way out in an op-ed piece published by CNN.com.  Lovins, who has advised multinationals and governments worldwide, argues that oil is becoming uncompetitive “even at low prices before it becomes unavailable even at high prices.”  Biomass, he explains, will have a significant role to play:

Buy a good hybrid car or light truck and drive it right, and you’ll halve your oil use per mile. Make it from very light but strong materials, improve its tires and aerodynamics, and you’ll halve oil consumption again.

Fuel it with 85 percent ethanol made from woody, weedy stuff like switchgrass, and you’ll save three-fourths of the remaining oil without interfering with food production.

The rest of the article is available here.