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The article comments on the energy bill proposed in the U.S. Congress. It is opined that the provision involving fuel economy is one of the important issues and it should be approved. It is commented that the provision related to the use of renewable fuels, which offer a cleaner and more promising approach to oil dependency than coal-to-liquids, must be amended to make sure that the surge in biofuel production does not destroy valuable forest and conservation lands.

The article reports that Richard Gross, a professor of chemistry at Polytechnic University, has made a fuel-latent plastic that can be used in different ways. Apart from being used as a packaging material, the plastic can also be used as fuel. Gross has used plant oil as bioplastic. According to the Defense Advanced Projects Research, biofuel will have to go through additional chemical processing to meet the standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.