May be a driver of emerging markets and industrializing countries, where conditions are favorable to growing next-generation biofuel crops, and fossil oil importation is currently prohibitively expensive.
For the transportation industry, biofuels can be integrated without the high costs of infrastructure modification. Car engines that run on ethanol, for example, can be easily converted to run on bioethanol or biodiesel, and the fuel can be dispensed just as gasoline is today.
Biofuels may provide a regional solution as part of a nation-wide transformation to renewable fuels. The mid-west, for example, could support locally produced and sold biofuels.