On Camels and the Making of EU Biofuels Policy

A camel, it is said, is a horse designed by a committee. It is certainly tempting to draw a parallel to the European Union’s biofuels policy and the astonishingly odd ways it has been crafted in the past years. Now the EU has a chance to rectify the profound flaws in its policy as the European Commission has set in motion a series of proposals to overhaul Europe’s approach to increasing its use of biofuels. Yet again its committee-style approach is about to repeat past mistakes – and to espouse policies that will only make matters worse.