Biomass for electricity or liquid fuel

I found this article during my weekly read literature hour.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/324/5930/1019.pdf

It concludes that using biomass to produce electricity and utilizing that electricity to power a car gives more miles/quantity of biomass compared to making a biomass into a liquid fuel. With this result, should we be focusing on electric cars? Also, we already have the infrastructure to deal with electricity. Wouldn't this be a better solution than having to install infrastructure for ethanol (some of the other biofuels function in the existing gasoline infrastructure for the most part)? How is electric car technology to date?

End of Quarter!

Now that the quarter is over, I realize I need to devote more time to researching many of the topics that may come up during the IGERT project next year.

Here's a partial list of things I need to investigate more thoroughly:

1. WA State Policy about renewable electricity
2. NW cap and trade
3. Kettle Falls Power Plant
4. Colville Tribe
   

It is now clearly summer in Seattle. Hopefully everyone is getting a good deal of Vitamin D to compensate for its winter dearth.