Last Thursday, the group Public Policy Virginia held a public forum on the use of biofuels to help ease the nation’s addiction to oil. Dan Daniels of the Charlottesville Podcasting Network has edited down the event to a one-hour digest. Speakers include: Tom Whipple, columnist for the Falls Church News-Press and editor of a daily newsletter on Peak Oil; Kevin Comer, Senior Project Manager with Antares Group, Inc.; Chad Freckmann, Executive Director of Blue Ridge Clean Fuels and organizer of the quarterly Virginia Biofuels Forum; and Al Weed, Chairman of Public Policy Virginia.

 
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This Public Policy Virginia event received corporate support from Colonial Auto Center, Jim Price Chevrolet, Greenlight Energy, and Piedmont Equipment Company/John Deere, Whole Foods Market and Old Mill Power Company. The forum was co-sponsored by Democracy for America, the Virginia Organizing Project, the Virginia Grassroots Coalition, the League of Women Voters, Piedmont Environmental Council, the Piedmont Group of the Sierra Club, Blue Ridge Clean Fuels, and the UVA student Environmental Science Organization.