Biofuels: Their Future is Now

January 18, 2006

Presentation Materials

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The following materials are made available for your review to complement the teleconference program.

Agenda

Host Firms List

Speaker Biographies

Roger Feldman, Bingham McCutchen LLP
- Biofuels - How the Energy Policy Act of 2005 Will be Their Tipping Point

Todd Alexander, Chadbourne & Parke, LLP
- Successfully Siting and Financing an Ethanol Plant

David Fennema, Marathon Capital
- Biofuels - Capital Structures and Financing

Reid Detchon, Energy Future Coalition
- Realize the Possibilities: Accelerating the Transition to Alternative Transportation Fuels from Biomass

Additional Resources:

Marty Borruso, Environmental Alternatives Inc.
- Biodiesel, American Made Alternative Energy Today!

Todd Alexander, "Biodiesel: The Next Growth Opportunity?", Project Finance Newswire, August 2005

"The New Petroleum," Newsweek International, August 8, 2005

American Coalition for Ethanol summary of Energy Policy Act of 2005 provisions http://www.ethanol.org/rfs.html

Energy Future Coalition web site http://www.energyfuturecoalition.org/new_fuels.cfm

Bringing Biofuels to the Pump: An Aggressive Plan for Ending America's Oil Dependence, Natural Resources Defense Council, July 2005, http://www.nrdc.org/air/energy/pump/contents.asp

"Over a Barrel, Myths and Facts About US dependence on Foreign Oil" http://www.tcf.org/Publications/InternationalAffairs/
oildep_detchon.pdf

"Ethanol: Are Fears of Overcapacity Overblown?" in Ethanol Producer Magazine, May 2005, and Project Finance Newswire, April 2005, available at: http://www.chadbourne.com/publications/showPublication.asp?..
/memo/MapEPM.05_Market.pdf

"Ethanol Goes Prime Time" in The Desk, February 4, 2005, available at: http://www.chadbourne.com/publications/showPublication.asp?..
/memo/Feb4.05desk1.pdf

"Opening the Door to a New Financial Paradigm" in Ethanol Producer Magazine, October 2004, available at: http://www.chadbourne.com/publications/showPublication.asp?..
/memo/OctEPM_Finance(final).pdf

"Ethanol is Taking the Spotlight with Both Producers and Investors" in Houston Business Journal Energy Magazine, October 2004, available at: http://www.chadbourne.com/publications/showPublication.asp?..
/memo/EthanolSolutions10-04HBJarticle.pdf

"Ethanol: Wall Street Meets Main Street" in Project Finance NewsWire, August 2004, available at: http://www.chadbourne.com/publications/showPublication.asp?../
newsletters/pfnewswire/0408pfn.pdf

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