In Massachusetts, a team composed of REAP Coalition founder Brooke
Coleman, American Biofuels Council executive director Sean O’Hanlon,
and a college student defeated a team including Energy Tribune editor
Robert Bryce and American Enterprise Institute scholar Kenneth Green in
“The Great Debate” staged yesterday at Boston University.
The topic of the debate was “Should biofuels and the renewables be critical components of U.S. energy policy?”
Will Thurmond, author of Biodiesel 2020, observed that the
affirmative team won “against a polished but unconvincing littany of
half-baked theories and critiques without solutions. I think college
students can see through the veneer of the opposing team’s
pre-conceived normative ideology using negative criticism tactics.”
"I don't have all the answers. I don't need all the answers right now. All I have to do is solve the problems one at a time. More importantly, I won't be doing it by myself."-- Sean O'Hanlon
