Signaling a major retrenchment, European Union legislators on Monday proposed ratcheting back an ambitious target to raise Europe's use of biofuels.

"I think when we will look back we will say this was the beginning of a turning point for Europe on biofuels," said Juan Delgado, a research fellow specializing in energy and climate change expert at Breugel, a research organization in Brussels. "It will be very difficult now for Europe to stick by its targets."

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/07/business/fuel.php

Another Environmental "Solution" Starts To Fall Apart: EU Infatuation With Ethanol Grows
Cold, Canada, Too

http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/07/08/another-environmental-solution-starts-to-fall-apart-eu-infatuation-with-ethanol-grows-cold-canada-too/#more-5814

Unintended consequences. That should be the Democratic slogan.