WI Renewable fuels bill delayed

from The Capital Times
by Mike Ivey

Madison, WI The state Senate is delaying consideration of a bill to require a 10 percent blend of renewable fuels in all motor fuels sold in Wisconsin starting in 2009.
The Democrat-controlled Senate on Thursday stopped short of taking a roll call vote and sent the measure back to its organizational committee.

The measure has been speeding through the Legislative process and has the support of Gov. Jim Doyle and farm groups that stand to benefit from increased production of corn-based ethanol.

But the oil industry is against it and it's not clear how the bill would be met in the Republican-controlled Assembly.

The measure would mandate a 10-percent renewable fuel blend -- at this point mainly corn-based ethanol -- by 2009 and increases it gradually to 25 percent by 2025. It also mandates a 5 percent biodiesel blend by 2010.

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