Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 03/19/2009



Sugar Prices Rise as Fuel Costs Increase; Orange Juice Gains - Bloomberg
March 19 (Bloomberg) -- Sugar futures rose the most in two weeks on speculation that surging energy costs will boost demand for crop-based fuel. Orange juice also climbed. Crude oil rose as much as 8.5 percent, topping $52 a barrel, and gasoline ...

Feds consider upping ethanol levels - Rosemount Town Pages
ST. PAUL EUR Federal officials have until year's end to decide whether gasoline may contain more than the common 10 percent ethanol. "We are not going to kneel at the altar of big oil in this country forever," said Doug Peterson, a former state ...

BioFuels Journal - News & Information for the Ethanol and .
Irvine, CAEUR”BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. (OTC BB:BFRE), a company changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of ethanol from non-food cellulosic wastes, announced March 10 a Technology Development Services ...

V8s face new era - West Online
The domestic V8 supercar Championship is moving into the unknown this year - where results will come less from raw performance than from astute management and fuel efficiency. It will be the last frontier for the environmentalists - cracking the ...

Amendments may kill energy legislation
Amendments to lift restrictions on nuclear plant construction in Kentucky and allow drilling for oil and gas on state property might be enough to nuke Gov...

Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. Announces Appointment of Chief . - Earthtimes
OMAHA, NE -- 03/19/09 -- Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRE) announces the appointment of Wayne B. Hoovestol as Chief Strategy Officer ("CSO") effective March 16, 2009. As CSO, Mr. Hoovestol will be responsible for assisting the Chief ...

Bipartisan Senate bill seeks lower tariffs on ethanol imports (New York Times)
A bipartisan group of senators is seeking to lower U.S. tariffs on ethanol imports to achieve "parity" with the blender's cre...

Rekindling the debate
The steep drop in energy prices from last year's peaks has cooled the food-versus-fuel debate for the moment, but the battle may be rekindled by an eventual global economic recovery or energy price rebound...

Oil refiner bids hello to ethanol in big way
Valero Energy Corp., the largest U.S. oil refiner, will enter the ethanol business after its $477 million bid for seven plants and other assets of VeraSun Energy Corp...

Valero buys seven ethanol units - Tulsa World
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. EUR” Valero Energy will buy seven ethanol plants from VeraSun Energy for $477 million, the largest biofuel buyout in terms of production capacity. VeraSun, the country's second-largest ethanol producer, filed for Chapter 11 ...

Biofuel maker Virent still sees green for biofuel
Lee Edwards isn't phased by the credit crunch, low gasoline prices or a glut of oil on the market as he steers Virent Enegy Systems Inc...

Valero buys seven ethanol units (Tulsa World)
The refiner gets a discount deal in the VeraSun bankruptcy. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. EUR” Valero Energy will buy seven ethanol plants from VeraSun Energy for $477 million, the largest biofuel buyout in terms of production capacity...

Canadian company wants trash to fuel your car - Reuters Blogs
Enerkem Inc ,  a private company based in Montreal, wants to kill two birds with one stone EUR” fuel your car while getting paid for reducing trash mountains. They say they can do it by using garbage and biomass as feedstocks for plants that make ...

newnet news - BlueFire Ethanol Fuels teams up with Applied Power .
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels teams up with Applied Power Concepts to develop biofuel technology...

Valero to to Pay $477 Million for VeraSuns Ethanol Plants (New York Times)
Valero Energy , the countrys largest independent refiner, said on Wednesday that it would buy seven ethanol plants from VeraSun Energy for $477 million, giving the biofuel industry a lift at a time when it is suffering from excess production capacity and falling gasoline consumption, The New York Timess Clifford Krauss reported...

Manmade biomass coal offers storage and fuel - CNET News
A new machine dubbed the "Black Phantom" can turn biomass into manmade coal. Carbonscape , a New Zealand-based start-up, describes its invention as an industrial-sized microwave that can cook plant waste, wood waste, and "even sewage" into coal ...

Brazil wants help lifting US ethanol tariffs
Brazil wants help lifting US ethanol tariffs March 19, 2009 11:48 AM CDT Associated Press NEW YORK - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday implored American businessmen to help convince the United States to lift the 53-cent-per-gallon import tariff it places on his country's ethanol fuel...

Ethanol fuels said to violate Islamic law
A prominent Saudi scholar warned youths studying abroad of using ethanol or other fuel that contains alcohol in their cars since they could be committing a sin, local press reported Thursday. Sheikh Mohamed Al-Najimi, member of the ...

Stockguru.com: Stocks to Watch for March 19, 2009 - RGLC, VSUNQ, COBT, TBIO, MLSS, and SOPW
RDATE:19032009 Our Stocks to Watch today include : Regal Life Concepts, Inc. , VeraSun Energy Corporation , C2 Global Technologies Inc...

University of Illinois Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research .
Ethanol Fuels Big Three Bail Out Caravan. Domestic Fuel - Alternative Fuel News Posted by Cindy Zimmerman The Big Three auto makers traveled to Washington this week to ask for a bailout in fuel efficient, high mileage cars, ...

Senators work to fix renewable fuel definition
Senators John Thune, R-S.D.; Jon Tester, D-Mont.; and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., reintroduced legislation Wednesday that they say will fix the flawed definition of renewable biomass in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007...

Community.GJSentinel.com » Blog Archive » City and county should .
My experience primarily involved promoting and developing ethanol fuels from agricultural sources in the Midwest. With a great deal of help, these efforts were very successful. Several years ago, I continued promoting ethanol fuels and ...

Genius Investor Dumps BlueFire Ethanol Fuels | BNET Energy Blog | BNET
Yesterday mornings Clean Technology Insight contains a tidbit on BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, a publicly-traded ethanol startup. Quercus Trust, one of its investors, is dumping shares in the company at a loss, according to CTI. ...

Roush Propane F-150
When people talk about alternative fuels, propane isn't usually the first topic that comes up...

Feds consider upping state ethanol levels - Republican-Eagle
If you feel a comment violates the terms listed below please choose the report violation link associated with the offending comment and file a report. It also takes enormous amounts of water to make ethanol, as well as the irrigation for all the corn ...

Ethanol Groups Endorse Higher Blends, OPEI Not So Sure .
The studies also will provide information necessary to educate consumers about the use of mid-level ethanol fuels on existing and future products. Printable Format |; E-mail this article ...

DOE to Award Up to $15M for High-Tonnage Supply Systems for Biomass.
The US Department of Energy will award up to $15 million to stimulate the design and demonstration of a comprehensive system to handle the harvesting, collection, preprocessing, transport and storage of sufficient volumes of high-impact feedstocks required to achieve the rapid expansion of the commercial domestic cellulosic biofuels industry...

Valero deal unsettling for ethanol advocates (Lincoln Journal Star)
In a Nebraska ethanol advocates vision of the ideal future, farmers own all the ethanol plants debt-free and their city cousins drive around in vehicles powered exclusively by corn...

Will Obama Leave Our Children Powerless? By Dennis T. Avery and Alex Avery
President Obama just killed the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility--and with it any realistic chance of actually slashing U.S. carbon emissions without massive consumer costs...

Valero Energy outbids rivals for VeraSun assets
US refiner Valero Energy Corp has outbid its rivals for seven facilities of the bankrupt ethanol maker VeraSun Energy Corp, for a price of $477 million...

Enerkem announces plans to enter the United States with.
Project will allow the recycling and conversion of 60% of Three Rivers region's waste material MONTREAL, March 19 /CNW Telbec/ - Enerkem Inc., a leading advanced biofuels and green chemicals technology company, today announced its plans to build and operate a second-generation biofuels production facility located in Pontotoc, Mississippi, USA...

Minnesota ethanol plant included in Valero buy - Minneapolis-St Paul Business Journal
San Antonio-based Valero (NYSE: VLO) will spend $477 million on the seven existing plants and one plant site in Reynolds, Ind., still under development. VeraSuns (OTCBB: VSUNQ) original bid package included plants that are located in Charles City ...

Tate & Lyle Stops Building Ethanol Plant in Iowa (Update1) (Bloomberg)
March 19 (Bloomberg) -- Tate & Lyle Plc , maker of Splenda sweetener, suspended construction of a $260 million ethanol plant near Fort Dodge, Iowa, until the biofuel market improves...

Valero Sees Dollar Signs In Ethanol (Forbes)
The refiner bought seven of VeraSun Industries' ethanol plants at auction for $477.0 million...

E85 Boondoggle Of The Day: Mandatory Flexibility | The Truth About .
The only waivers for this mandate would be for OEMs who can prove that ethanol fuels prevent plug-in hybrids and other alt-energy vehicles to flunk state emission standards. Meanwhile, as rules are being written for the Renewable Fuel ...

Ethanol projects get new owners (Journal & Courier)
As it tries to emerge from bankruptcy, VeraSun Energy Corp. has found buyers for a number of its properties, including an ethanol plant in Linden and a partially built ethanol facility in Reynolds...

Google aims for renewable energy priced below coal
The project, dubbed Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal, is hiring dozens of engineers and targeting investment financing at advanced solar thermal power, wind power, enhanced geothermal systems and other new technologies, Google said...

RFS Utilizes Forest Waste to Improve Environment and Economy
The Renewable Fuels Standard created by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 mandates the use of second-generation cellulosic ethanol derived from non-food biomass...

More On The Ethanol Fuel Hoax (Wizbang Blue)
Further ethanol is expensive to produce that fossil fuels, and not ethanol fuels are used to power the production of corn into this fuel. The process involves just 8% usable material for fuel that must be separated from 92% water, ...

Sumitomo invests in UK fuel cell start-up Acal Energy
Sumitomo has announced that it has invested in UK fuel cell start-up Acal Energy ...

Valero buys seven ethanol units
Valero Energy will buy seven ethanol plants from VeraSun Energy for $477 million, the largest biofuel buyout in terms of production capacity...

Minnesota ethanol plant included in Valero buy (BizJournals)
Valero Energy Corp. has secured the rights to buy eight ethanol plants owned by bankrupt VeraSun Energy Corp. (VLO)..

NCGA comments on sale of VeraSun facilities to Valero
NCGA comments on sale of VeraSun facilities to Valero Mar. 19, 2009 VeraSun Energy's selection of Valero Renewable Fuels as the successful bidder for several Midwest ethanol production facilities, confirmed yesterday by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, was noted by farmers concerned about their contracts to provide corn...

BioFuel Elects New Chairman - Biloxi Sun Herald
DENVER, March 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BioFuel Energy Corp. (Nasdaq: BIOF) announced today that Mark W. Wong, a Director of the Company since January 2008, had been elected Chairman of the Board. Mr. Wong currently serves as Chief Executive ...

Here's the dirt on washer fluid
While snow can certainly clean a windshield, it's better to keep your washer fluid reservoir full...

Lignol Project Awarded $1.82 Million in Additional Funding from SDTC
VANCOUVER, March 19 /CNW/ - Lignol Energy Corporation , a leading technology company in the cellulosic ethanol and biorefining sector, today announced that a project led by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Lignol Innovations Ltd., has been awarded up to $1.82 million in additional funding contributions from Sustainable Development Technology Canada ...

Ethanol Fuels from Corn | Economics Blog
Readers Question: The federal gov. requires that all US cars use some form of ethanol fuels from cornEUR¦EUR¦EUR¦so what effect will that have on Beef? Price...

Ethanol refiner acquires 7 plants (The Washington Times)
Valero Energy will buy seven ethanol plants from VeraSun Energy for $477 million, the largest biofuel buyout in terms of production capacity...

Oil Refiner to Buy 7 Ethanol Plants (New York Times)
Valero Energy?s move to buy the ethanol plants from VeraSun Energy for $477 million gives the biofuel industry a lift at a time when it is suffering from excess production capacity...

Sustainable Development Technology Canada and Government of Canada:.
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