Andrew Stuttaford quotes a snippet of the UK's The Independent preaching about biofuels back in 2005:

At last, some refreshing signs of intelligent thinking on climate change are coming out of Whitehall. The Environment minister, Elliot Morley, reveals today in an interview with this newspaper that the Government is drawing up plans to impose a "biofuel obligation" on oil companies...

(Note the condescension -- any failure to adopt their preferred policy (biofuels) is equivalent to a lack of intelligence.)

And (of course) washing their hands of such advocacy this week:

The production of biofuel is devastating huge swathes of the world's environment. So why on earth is the Government forcing us to use more of it?

I dunno, Independent. Complete mystery. Must have been those right-wingers.