Wonder what life will be like under the Dems? Just look at the EU?

BRUSSELS (AFP) - An internal European Commission study, seen by AFP Friday, criticises an EU plan to boost the use of biofuels in transport, concluding that their costs outweigh the benefits.

A Commission spokesman downplayed the study and insisted that the use of biofuels remained at the centre of its strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions in Europe.

The unpublished working paper by the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission's in-house scientific body, makes uncomfortable reading for the EU's executive body ahead of a meeting Wednesday where it is to detail a plan for biofuels to make up 10 percent of all transport fuels in the EU by 2020.

The cost-benefit study looks at whether using biofuels reduces greenhouse gas emissions, improves security of supply and creates jobs and delivers an unenthusiastic opinion on all three counts.

What the cost-benefit analysis shows is that there are better ways to achieve greenhouse gas savings and security of supply enhancements than to produce biofuels," says the report.

"The costs of EU biofuels outweigh the benefits," the researchers state.

EU taxpayers would have to fork out an extra 33-65 billion euros (48-95 billion dollars) between now and 2020 if the European Commission proposals go ahead, according to the study.

After all, the Dems do look toward Europe as their guide.

Heh, just look at California or New York. Can you say Bankruptcy.

Europe to me is just one big old museum and the building are old too

Bankruptcy as opposed to an inevitable destruction....hmmmm tough choice.

Let's see...$10 gallon fuel, $20 gallon water, $1 kw power,etc.... No Thanks.

well ****, we blew that much money last month in iraq - sounds like their energy security plan would make more sense than ours.

The EU has mass transit, uses efficient vehicles, and is building nuclear plants - they are ready for the end of oil - we are doomed because some people refuse to change - evolve or go extinct

Exactly like the EU!

The EU is ahead of the US in many areas. It's just stubborn blind patriots like you and neocons who refuse to accept that.
If we were more like the EU, we wouldn't be so f*cked up now.