HEAVYWEIGHT INFLUENCES
Obama has been advised by some heavyweight names from the ethanol and grains industry including Tom Dashle who is on the board of several ethanol producing companies. Mr Dashle’s job description at the Washington-based law firm Alston & Bird includes spending “a substantial amount of time providing strategic and policy advice to clients in renewable energy”. Barack has also repeated made use of corporate jets belonging to ADM, a world-leading agribusiness and biofuels producer.