Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 04/12/2009



Pouring Biofuel on the Fire
Hunger. Corruption. Bankruptcy. Other than that, the green-fuel boom has been a smashing success...

Report: Ethanol raises cost of food programs - Journal Gazette and Times Courier
WASHINGTON (AP) EUR” Food stamps and child nutrition programs are expected to cost up to $900 million more this year because of increased ethanol use. Higher use of the corn-based fuel additive accounted for 10 to 15 percent of the rise in food prices ...

Algae-Based Biofuels Part II: Algenol, the Ethanol Innovator - HispanicBusiness.com
In part one of our series on algae-based biofuels, we posited that algae has the potential to make petroleum a thing of the past. In part two, we look at traditional ethanol -- and why a blue-green algae version might fulfill ethanol's promise. Corn ...

CBO: Ethanol production pushed food prices up (The Hill)
Wider use of ethanol caused a 10 to 15 percent increase in food prices from 2007 to 2008, according to a...

Aventine, U.S. Ethanol Producer, Files for Bankruptcy (Update3) (Bloomberg)
April 8 (Bloomberg) -- Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings Inc. , a U.S. ethanol producer whose biggest investor is a unit of Citigroup Inc., sought bankruptcy protection from creditors after reporting a fourth-quarter net loss of $36.9 million on March 16...

Ethanol fuels - Cure or Curse?
Ethanol fuels - Cure or curse?The week the US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has made a recommendation to the government to increase the percentage of ethanol that can be blended into our fuel in order to boost the ...

Ethanol policies fuel food-price rise (The Washington Times)
Federal ethanol-fuel policies forced consumers to pay an extra 0.5 percent to 0.8 percent in increased food prices in 2008, and the government itself could end up paying nearly $1 billion more this year for food stamps because of ethanol use, according to a new government report. The report by the Congressional Budget Office helps answer questions raised by Congress last year as food prices shot ...

Oil Refiner Valero Plows More Money into Renewables with Terrabon Investment
The ink has barely dried on Valero Energy's A $477 million check for seven ethanol plants and a development site from bankrupt VeraSun and it's already investing more money into another renewable project...

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The proposed tax on the bonuses for AIG officials is an undemocratic and dangerous way to solve the problem...

Ethanol Fuels Iowa Caucuses » Market to Market - Feature
Ethanol Fuels Iowa Caucuses. Last week, the state of Florida proposed new ethanol blending rules that would open the door to the nation's third-largest gasoline market. Despite the Sunshine State's dominant role in sugar production, ...

Ethanol policies fuel food-price rise
Ethanol policies fuel food-price rise Federal ethanol-fuel policies forced consumers to pay an extra 0.5 percent to 0.8 percent in increased food prices in 2008, and the government itself could end up paying nearly $1 billion more this year for food stamps because of ethanol use, according to a new government report...

PM backs biofuels, despite criticism
Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Thursday defended his government's support for biofuels, arguing the production of such fuels accounts for a small proportion of the worldwide spike in food prices...

Touting the benefits of biofuel - Great Falls Tribune
The Montana Ethanol Project is prepared to build a $265 million plant northeast of Great Falls that would be a market for 12 million bushels of wheat and another 34 million bushels of barley EUR” at least that's what the company announced almost 20 ...

Study: Biofuel threatens water supplies
The production of bioethanol may use up to three times as much water as previously thought, a new study finds, becoming the latest work that could burst the biofuel bubble...

Ethanol producer files for bankruptcy (Lincoln Courier)
One of the areas largest ethanol producers has filed for reorganization bankruptcy. Pekin-based Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings Inc. said Wednesday it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the latest victim in an industry stung by volatile commodity prices and shrinking profit margins...

The Candy Bar Diet
After becoming increasingly frustrated with insubstantial US network evening news shows, larded with equal helpings of "pessimism porn" and "feel good" stories, my wife and I recently switched back to BBC America...

Debate over ethanol continues - Southern Illinoisan
WASHINGTON - At St. Charles Boat & Motor, owner and service manager Jerry Sims used to oversee the rebuilding of 30 carburetors in a year's time. Last year, Sims says, he stopped counting at 750. They were victims, he claims, of ethanol in gas. "It's ...

Ethanol policies fuel food-price rise - The Washington Times
Federal ethanol-fuel policies forced consumers to pay an extra 0.5 percent to 0.8 percent in increased food prices in 2008, and the government itself could end up paying nearly $1 billion more this year for food stamps because of ethanol use ...

Work likely to proceed on ethanol plant, despite bankruptcy | POLL (Evansville Courier & Press)
Work will progress on a ethanol plant in Mount Vernon, Ind., even though the company building it declared bankruptcy this week...

Congressional Report Says Ethanol Boosted Food Prices, Increased Costs Of Nutrition Programs
Defenders of highly subsidized corn-based ethanol are comparing really bad to far worse in rebutting proff that ethanol use caused a 10 to 15 percent increase in food prices from 2007 to 2008...

Biofuel threatens water supplies
Washington, April 11 : A new study has suggested that the production of bioethanol may use up to three times as much water as previously thought, thus threatening water supplies...

Aventine, U.S. Ethanol Producer, Files for Bankruptcy (Update4) (Bloomberg)
April 8 (Bloomberg) -- Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings Inc. , a U.S. ethanol producer that counts a unit of Citigroup Inc. among its biggest investors, sought bankruptcy protection from creditors after reporting a fourth-quarter net loss of $36.9 million on March 16...

The promise of ethanol - Tulsa World
Like the author of a recent letter to the editor ("Understanding energy issues," March 22), I am knowledgeable about cellulosic ethanol, but am optimistic our dependence on fossil fuels can at least be shifted from foreign to domestic sources ...

Peugeot adds flex-fuel 308 to its range
Supporting biofuels in its lineup is nothing new to Peugeot. All of the diesel-powered cars sold by Peugeot and Citron already support the use of B30 biodiesel blends...

OPEI Concerned About E15 Fuel- Appliance.Net - home and kitchen .
The DOE report, in fact, indicates that mid-level ethanol fuels could damage millions of forestry, lawn and garden, and other small engine products currently housed in consumers garages, boat slips, warehouses or being used by small ...

Touting the benefits of biofuel (Great Falls Tribune)
The Montana Ethanol Project is prepared to build a $265 million plant northeast of Great Falls that would be a market for 12 million bushels of wheat and another 34 million bushels of barley EUR” at least that's what the company announced almost 20 years ago...

CBO: Ethanol policies pushed food prices higher
This wona t surprise anyone at Hot Air, where wea ve covered the starvation model that comes from converting food into fuel , but now we have confirmation from the Congressional Budget Office of the inflationary effect of federal ethanol policies...

Report: Ethanol raises cost of nutrition programs
Food stamps and child nutrition programs are expected to cost up to $900 million more this year because of increased ethanol use...

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The recurring lesson emerging from the corn ethanol scam is this: too many mandates and subsidies are probably worse than none at all...

Ethanol fuels - Cure or Curse?
This week the US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has made a recommendation to the government to increase the percentage of ethanol that can be blended into our fuel in order to boost the ailing biofuel industry. ...

Ethanol producers fight slump with jobs in the balance
A double train track spur was built at Panda Ethanol in Hereford. More than 2½ years after its groundbreaking, the plant is not yet complete...

Ethanol Fuels from Corn
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 increase first, or Price decreased first, or demand increase first, or Supply increase ...

The green, green grass of home
A 1960s crooner and renewable energy have little in common except innovation; however, I think we can all agree that they both make us feel a certain sense of harmony...

Silobreaker: Organic Fuels of the Today and Future
SA farmers want ethanol mandate. The South Australian Farmers Federation Grains Industry Committee is calling on the state and federal governments to mandate the use of grain-based ethanol fuels. . - [03/26/2009 - ABC Online] ...

Oil Filters and Ethanol fuels?
Is there any reason to switch from a PF-44 to a UPF -44 oil filter on my 2003 50TH AE LS-1 engine? I've used a PF-44 and then the PF-46, but have read that the UPF-44 restricts the oil flow, which is not good and some say that it's ...

Study: Other factors, not ethanol, chief culprit in food price jumps
The bulk of last year's increase in food prices should be blamed on factors other than ethanol, according to a new study from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office...

Global warming reports: poor prospects for corn ethanol
Global warming could scorch the corn economy to the tune of about $1.4 billion a year, according to a report that compiles data from academia and government...

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

Aventine, U.S. Ethanol Producer, Files for Bankruptcy (Update2) (Bloomberg)
April 8 (Bloomberg) -- Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings Inc. , a U.S. ethanol producer, sought bankruptcy protection from creditors after reporting a fourth-quarter net loss of $36.9 million on March 16...

Sustainable Ethanol Industry Rapidly Forming in U.S. - Industry Week
Fuel made from crop waste and grasses will be as affordable as gasoline, says CEO of leading company President Obama's nomination of an alternative-fuels insider to a Department of Energy (DOE) post is the latest news that points to imminent large ...

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. ...

Terrabon gets first round of Valero funds
Terrabon LLC has received the first installment of an equity infusion from Valero Energy Corp...

Longtime grudge
There are a few outdoors columnists around the country who don't hold pro bass fishing in a very high regard, and Mike Jackson of the Daily Herald is one of them...

Pacific Ethanol fires its CFO in cost-cut move (The Sacramento Bee)
Sacramento-based Pacific Ethanol Inc. fired its chief financial officer on Friday, according to a fi..

Farmers' shield from recession weakens with crop prices - Honolulu Advertiser
WAHOO, Neb. EUR” Farming communities that were largely insulated from the recession last year by high crop prices and other factors are now feeling the nation's economic chill more acutely as corn, wheat and soybeans become cheaper and land values ...

Iowa approves $2 million for algae fuel project - Sioux City Journal
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Iowa energy officials have approved more than $2 million for an effort to grow algae at a southwest Iowa ethanol plant and use the material to make fuel. The 18-member Iowa Power Fund Board approved the $2,085,000 grant to ...

CBO: Ethanol production hiked food prices (The Hill)
Increased use of ethanol was responsible for about 10 to 15 percent of the rise in food prices from 2007 to...

Farm Bureau demands fairness for biofuels in carbon scoring
When rating fuels on the basis of their carbon content, biofuels should not be singled out and artificially degraded for so-called “indirect effects,” according to the American Farm Bureau Federation...

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 ...

Ethanol Industry Burning Through Equity - Herald & Review
Another ethanol refiner hoisted a white flag this past week. Aventine Renewable Energy at Pekin filed for chapter 11 federal bankruptcy protection, and while it is not the first, nor the biggest, its financial challenges point to continued stress for ...



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