Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 04/17/2009

EPA Considers Higher Ethanol Mix - Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has opened the door to allowing higher mixes of ethanol in gasoline, a potential boon to farmers and the struggling ethanol industry, but opposed by auto makers whose consumer warranties ...

Work likely to proceed on ethanol plant, despite bankruptcy - Evansville Courier-Press
Work will progress on a ethanol plant in Mount Vernon, Ind., even though the company building it declared bankruptcy this week. So says Jody Peacock, the director of public affairs for the Ports of Indiana-Mount Vernon, where Aventine Renewable ...

Report: Ethanol raises cost of nutrition programs - Caspar Star-Tribune
WASHINGTON - 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 about 10 percent to 15 percent of the rise in food ...

Pond full of scum produces a tank full of cheap diesel - Miami Herald
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- A Minnesota biofuels company that has attracted visits from financiers, scientists, customers and the federal government has produced a clean diesel fuel from algae harvested from a pond next door to its plant. The development ...

Green fuels produce twice as much carbon as fossil fuels (Daily Telegraph)
Green fuels could produce twice the carbon emissions of the fossil fuels they replace environmentalists claim...

How a Bad Bush Administration Energy Policy Begets More Bad Policy .
It also has less energy density per gallon than gasoline, which means that ethanol fuels provide fewer miles per gallon when you use a fuel with it, adding increased driving cost to the insult of taxpayer subsidies. ...

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. ...

U.S. will approve higher ethanol blend: group (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
The U.S. government will eventually allow higher levels of ethanol to be blended into gasoline, Renewable Fuels Association President Bob Dinneen said on Tuesday...

Cellulosic Ethanol Producers to California: Not so Fast!! « The .
The comments to ARB were jointly submitted by Abengoa Bioenergy; BioEnergy International, LLC; BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc.; California Ethanol & Power, LLC; Ceres, Inc.; Coskata; Iogen Corporation; Novozymes; Pacific Ethanol; Qteros; ...

How to Play It: Biofuels (BusinessWeek)
Investing in biofuels , as in most cutting-edge tech, can be treacherous. Ask anyone who snapped up stock in VeraSun Energy, a Sioux City (S.D.) company that briefly thrived as an ethanol titan...

Study ranks Iowa second-best in use of water to make ethanol (The Des Moines Register)
Washington, D.C. -EUR” Iowa not only makes a lot of ethanol but also produces it without using nearly as much water as many other states, according to a study...

Corn Rises as U.S. May Increase Content of Ethanol in Gasoline (Bloomberg)
April 16 (Bloomberg) -- Corn rose from a two-week low on speculation that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will allow higher blends of ethanol in gasoline, increasing demand for grain to make the fuel additive...

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 ...

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. ...

Natural Resources Canada: Government of Canada Provides New Funding for Tiverton Ethanol Plant (Marketwire)
TIVERTON, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - April 15, 2009) - Ben Lobb, Member of Parliament for Huron-Bruce, on behalf of the Honourable Lisa Raitt, Minister of Natural Resources, today announced that the Government of Canada's ecoENERGY for Biofuels program will provide up to $14 million for GreenField's Ethanol Inc.'s facility in Tiverton. "This investment is an example of how our Government is working ...

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 can cause problems with boat motors - Roanoke Times
Mark Taylor's Outdoors column and notebook appears regularly in The Roanoke Times. Being the head of Virginia's freshwater program doesn't mean you're immune to issues affecting the state's everyday anglers. An issue, for example, like a motor that ...

Green Fuels Group in Lacassine loses investor (KPLC Lake Charles)
Big changes at a Lacassine sugarcane mill are evident. Louisiana Green Fuels has confirmed that an investor has pulled out and there are other changes being made...

U.S. will approve higher ethanol blend: group - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government will eventually allow higher levels of ethanol to be blended into gasoline, Renewable Fuels Association President Bob Dinneen said on Tuesday. Ethanol is currently approved to make up 10 percent of gasoline ...

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, ...

Feds to pump millions into ethanol operation (Owen Sound Sun Times)
Greenfield Ethanols Tiverton plant will see up to $14 million in federal funding over the next seven years to reinforce the companys fuel alcohol business in an uncertain economic climate. The funding will be used to maintain the companys current operations and level of employment at the site.[.]..

Universal Energy Group Subsidiary Receives Equity Investment and Settles Lien Claim (CCNMatthews via Yahoo! Finance)
TORONTO, ONTARIO-- - Universal Energy Group Ltd. today announced that its biofuels subsidiary Terra Grain Fuels Inc. has completed a series of transactions with EllisDon Design Build Inc. including the exchange of mutual releases of pending litigation and the release of the $41 million construction lien filed against the Belle Plaine ethanol facility...

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 ...

The Biofuel Bubble EUR Royal Dutch Shell plc .com
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels (BFRE) hopes soon to break ground on a facility in Lancaster, Calif., that will use paper trash and other municipal waste. CEO Arnold R. Klann figures hell make ethanol for $1 per gallon by getting the waste he ...

Brazil's top automakers to distribute 2 million copies of the 'Ethanol Handbook' in partnership with the Brazilian . (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Starting in May, buyers of all flex-fuel vehicles manufactured in Brazil by Fiat, Ford, General Motors and Volkswagen will find extra reading material in the glove compartment of their new cars...

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

Fuel mix fight brewing - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
CHICAGO EUR” Picture a chain saw calmly idling. But then its blade suddenly starts spinning on its own, as if someone had goosed the throttle. The power equipment industry warns that such a scenario could happen if the federal government decides to ...

Renewable fuel to power collegiate Grand Prix - Toledo Blade
BOWLING GREEN EUR” A Bowling Green State University parking lot will be converted this weekend into a racing track to promote renewable energy. The universitys fourth annual Grand Prix will get under way at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Lot N next to Memorial ...

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

Americans Want Big Cars. Detroit Wants to Build Big Cars. So Let's . - The Auto Chanel
AUTO CENTRAL - April 17, 2009: Spacious, roomy, profitable big vehicles; its what the people want and its what the American car makers want to build. According to all reports in recent years (before the depression really hit), GM, Ford and ...

Latest Alabama News - Fox Birmingham
ALABAMA EXECUTION Ala. man executed for slaying during drug robbery ATMORE, Ala. (AP) - Jimmy Lee Dill has been executed in Alabama for killing a man in 1988 during a cocaine robbery. The 49-year-old Dill died by lethal injection at 6:16 p.m ...

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