Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 04/25/2009



Ethanol Makers Vow To Keep Fighting California Carbon Rules (INO News)
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--Ethanol makers lost a major battle this week over California vehicle fuel regulations but pledged to continue fighting...

New Fuel Regulations Boost Competitive Alternatives
The state's new mandate to cut carbon emissions from transportation fuels is being cheered by many start-up's in Silicon Valley...

Will California Shuck Corn Ethanol? (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
Energy Policy: California regulators are ready to conclude that corn ethanol cannot help the state fight global warming. It seems they've discovered putting food in our cars would destroy the earth in order to save it...

John Lott's Website: EPA wants to mandate even higher Ethanol Mix
Auto makers offer so-called flex-fuel vehicles designed to accept up to 85% ethanol fuels. But many current and older model cars aren't designed for ethanol concentrations above 10%. Alan Adler, a spokesman for General Motors Corp., ...

Worm's turn as tequila fuels car - Stuff
It has powered many a wild night and now it might power your car. Researchers in south-east Queensland are hoping the plant that fuels tequila madness can fuel internal combustion engines as well. Agave tequilana, used to make the potent spirit, is ...

We still can make more improvements to save Earth
As Earth Day 2009 becomes a memory, it is important to note how far we've come since 1970...

Calif. approves nation's 1st low-carbon fuel rule - AP
A A A" California air regulators on Thursday adopted a first-in-the-nation mandate requiring low-carbon fuels, part of the state's wider effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...

California: Low-Carbon-Fuels Mandate (New York Times)
California air regulators have adopted the nation?s first mandate for low-carbon fuels, a major step in the state?s effort to reduce emissions of heat-trapping gases...

Cupertino firm to supply ethanol to special sites (The Sacramento Bee)
A Cupertino company has signed an agreement to supply cellulosic ethanol to renewable fuels filling..

EPA considers higher ethanol mix
Earlier this year Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. recalled 214500 Lexus vehicles sold in the U.S. that were vulnerable to corrosion problems in their fuel-delivery pipes when some ethanol fuels were used. Pushing against the auto industry's ...

RTSea Blog: keeping an eye on Nature: California: sets a new .
Estimated cost per gallon: about $2, according to Arnold Klann of BlueFire Ethanol Fuels. "California's low-carbon fuel standard is going to set the standard for the U.S. and, I expect, the standard globally," said Graeme S.S. Sweeney, ...

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 ...

California seeks ethanol support for fuel standard  (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
California regulators preparing Thursday to adopt landmark rules curbing carbon emissions from transport fuels made an eleventh-hour bid to woo critics who call the measures unfair to corn-based ethanol. ..

Can your car handle more ethanol? | Radio Vice Online
Auto makers offer so-called flex-fuel vehicles designed to accept up to 85% ethanol fuels. But many current and older model cars aren't designed for ethanol concentrations above 10%. And, as a result, most car warranties use that ...

Worm's turn as tequila fuels car
IT HAS powered many a wild night and now it might power your car. Researchers in south-east Queensland are hoping the plant that fuels tequila madness can fuel internal combustion engines as well...

Racer has fuel options
Jerry Price and his propane-fueled Corvette will compete in the 100th anniversary run of the Great Race, a New York-to-Paris trek covering more than 23,000 miles...

California adopts landmark low-carbon fuel rule - Zee News
Sacramento, California, April 25: California on Thursday adopted a first-ever rule to slash carbon emissions in automotive fuels, and spur the market for cleaner gasoline alternatives, after a last-ditch appeal to ethanol advocates who fought the ...

California's low-carbon fuel standard has oil companies anxious - Sacramento Bee
In car-crazy California, a new fuel standard ordered by state officials to curb greenhouse gases could dramatically change how vehicles run. It also could have a huge effect on cost. The petroleum industry and some economists say the new standard ...

ANALYSIS-California rule could end ethanol's honeymoon (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters By Timothy Gardner NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters) - California's newly adopted low-carbon fuel standard may mark the beginning of the end of ethanol's coveted status as the sole U.S. alternative motor ...

Cupertino firm to supply ethanol to special sites
A Cupertino company has signed an agreement to supply cellulosic ethanol to renewable fuels filling station pumps statewide, including Sacramento-area stations...

Comments Open for Ethanol Blend Increase - Domestic Fuel
The world is in a race to produce ethanol fuels, if the United States doesn't want to be the leader it looks like other countries will be glad to supply us. The EPA stall tactics are sure making it easier for refiners like Valero to ...

Calif. approves low-carbon fuel rule
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California air regulators on Thursday adopted a first-in-the-nation mandate requiring low-carbon fuels, part of the state's wider effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...

Ethanol 'disaster' risk for boats
In Victoria, the Boating Industry Association's general manager, Robert Coco, last month warned boat owners "not to use ethanol fuels in the boats to avoid potentially costly damage to engines and fuel systems". ...

California's Low-Carbon Fuel Rule: A Boon for Alternative Fuels? (Fast Company Magazine)
California passed the country's first low-carbon fuel standard law yesterday, with a goal of cutting carbon emissions 10% by 2020. The allowable carbon intensity of fuels will lower incrementally beginning in 2011. As a result, everyone from fuel providers and refiners to importers and blenders will have to work on getting their environmental act together. It's a move that could lead to a ...

EPA opening discussion on more ethanol in gas - Coshocton Tribune
The federal government agreed Thursday to begin taking public comment on a proposal that could boost the amount of ethanol in gasoline by 50 percent - a small, early victory for suppliers seeking to expand sales of ethanol, usually made from corn ...

CA Adopts Nation's First Low Carbon Fuel Rule
California air regulators on Thursday adopted a first-in-the nation mandate for low-carbon fuels, telling the petroleum industry it must help combat global warming by offering cleaner-burning alternatives...

California's low-carbon fuel standard has oil companies anxious
In car-crazy California, a new fuel standard ordered by state officials to curb greenhouse gases could dramatically change how vehicles run...

Paper Tax Credit
Slaying victim was - a beautiful editorial Paper Tax Credit The unintended use of an alternative energy tax credit by paper mills is reminiscent of the country's misguided rush to ethanol as an environmentally friendly alternative to gasoline...

Earth Day, 2009 | SolveClimate.com
California is preparing to adopt the world's first regulation to reduce the carbon footprint of fuel, and it is looking to companies like BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, which converts raw trash into fuel. ...

California adopts low carbon fuel standard
The California Air Resources Board, or CARB, voted late Thursday to adopt new fuel regulations, known as the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard, designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 10%, or 16 million mt, by 2020...

Panda sells Hereford ethanol plant - Amarillo Globe-Times
A federal court on Friday approved the sale of a Hereford ethanol plant for a little more than 12 percent of its construction and outfitting cost. Hereford Biofuels, one of four subsidiaries of Panda Ethanol that filed for bankruptcy Jan. 23, was the ...

Energy-Latin America: Us Proposes 'Variable Geometry'
The United States will work on energy issues with the other countries of the Americas based on "a variable geometry," allowing governments to choose to cooperate in some areas but not others, said Jeremy Martin, head of the energy programme at the Institute of the Americas at the University of California San Diego...

Green firms First Solar, GT Solar Intl, Archer Daniels appeal to investor
Green firms First Solar, GT Solar International and Archer Daniels Midland were recommended on Friday as solid targets for investors by Brent Wilsey, President of Wilsey Asset Management...

Ethanol industry disappointed with California's low-carbon fuel standard
The Renewable Fuels Association , a representative for the ethanol industry, is "disappointed" about California's decision on Thursday to adopt a low carbon fuel standard because it says is "unfairly penalizing ethanol." "Adopting this standard sets a dangerous precedent about the application of unproven science to industries across the country...

Calif. approves nation's 1st low-carbon fuel rule - Chippewa Herald
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California air regulators on Thursday adopted a first-in-the-nation mandate requiring low-carbon fuels, part of the state's wider effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The California Air Resources Board voted 9-1 to approve ...

California Votes For New Low Carbon Fuel Standard
The California Air Resources Board adopted a new standard for fuel that will aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles by ten percent by 2020...

U.S. Corn Ethanol Outlook
It also requires far less energy to produce and refine into ethanol fuels. I guess taking a weed and turning it into our future fuel is'nt the most profitable, is that why you never hear about it? Comment by b. clark on 2009-04-18 ...

Biofuels groups react to California decision
Friday, April 24, 2009, 4:42 PM by Julie Harker, John Perkins, Dave Russell, Bob Meyer The California Air Resources Board passed their low-carbon fuel standard which will require fuel manufacturers to cut the so-called carbon intensity of fuels sold in the state 10 percent by 2020...

Good news, Earthlings - A California engineer makes a $100-million .
There, in the high desert of the Antelope Valley, Klann's company, BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, plans to build a $100-million plant to convert raw trash into an alcohol-based fuel that will help power the cars and trucks of the future...

Will California Shuck Corn Ethanol? (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! Finance)
Energy Policy: California regulators are ready to conclude that corn ethanol cannot help the state fight global warming. It seems they've...

Environmentalism is bad for the Environment
If we can sum up the current push for environmental legislation, we need to penalize carbon producing industries, including the energy sector , and invest in "alternative energy sources, like biofuels, wind power, and solar power...

April 15, 2009 Mary D. Nichols Chairwoman California Air Resources .
Sincerely,. Abengoa Bioenergy. BioEnergy International, LLC. BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. California Ethanol & Power, LLC. Ceres, Inc. Coskata. Iogen Corporation. Novozymes. Pacific Ethanol. Qteros, Inc. Verenium. ZeaChem Inc...

Calif. gets nation's first low-carbon fuel rule
When California air regulators adopted a mandate requiring low-carbon fuels, part of the state's wider effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the state became the first in the U.S. to do so...

California rule could end ethanol's honeymoon - Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - California's newly adopted low-carbon fuel standard may mark the beginning of the end of ethanol's coveted status as the sole U.S. alternative motor fuel. The U.S. state with the most cars late on Thursday approved the world's ...

AE Biofuels to Supply Cellulosic Ethanol to Pearson Fuels E85 Stations in California (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CUPERTINO, Calif.----AE Biofuels, Inc., , a global vertically integrated biofuels company, today announced that it has signed a strategic agreement with Pearson Fuels to supply cellulosic ethanol to the renewable fuels filling stations developed by Pearson Fuels across the state of California...

Ready or not, California's fuel rules are changing
In keeping with a 2006 law called AB32, the world's first carbon-fuel emission standards were set April 23 by the California Air Resources Board, or ARB, in Sacramento...

Company to market ethanol variant (San Diego Union-Tribune)
A San Diego company developing alternative-fuel stations may be the first in the country to sell motorists ethanol made from grasses and agricultural waste rather than corn kernels or sugarcane. Inn Corporation. Novozymes. Pacific Ethanol. Qteros, Inc. Verenium. ZeaChem Inc...

Calif. gets nation's first low-carbon fuel rule
When California air regulators adopted a mandate requiring low-carbon fuels, part of the state's wider effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the state became the first in the U.S. to do so...

California rule could end ethanol's honeymoon - Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - California's newly adopted low-carbon fuel standard may mark the beginning of the end of ethanol's coveted status as the sole U.S. alternative motor fuel. The U.S. state with the most cars late on Thursday approved the world's ...

AE Biofuels to Supply Cellulosic Ethanol to Pearson Fuels E85 Stations in California (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CUPERTINO, Calif.----AE Biofuels, Inc., , a global vertically integrated biofuels company, today announced that it has signed a strategic agreement with Pearson Fuels to supply cellulosic ethanol to the renewable fuels filling stations developed by Pearson Fuels across the state of California...

Ready or not, California's fuel rules are changing
In keeping with a 2006 law called AB32, the world's first carbon-fuel emission standards were set April 23 by the California Air Resources Board, or ARB, in Sacramento...

Company to market ethanol variant (San Diego Union-Tribune)
A San Diego company developing alternative-fuel stations may be the first in the country to sell motorists ethanol made from grasses and agricultural waste rather than corn kernels or sugarcane. In a deal announced yesterday, Pearson Fuels said it would begin selling cellulosic ethanol made by AE Biofuels of Cupertino at its pumps in San Diego County, Riverside County and Northern California...

Calif. Approves Nation's 1st Low-Carbon Fuel Rule
California air regulators on Thursday adopted a first-in-the-nation mandate requiring low-carbon fuels, part of the state's wider effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...

Cupertino firm to supply ethanol to special sites - Sacramento Bee
A Cupertino company has signed an agreement to supply cellulosic ethanol to renewable fuels filling station pumps statewide, including Sacramento-area stations. AE Biofuels Inc. said it will supply ethanol to stations developed by San Diego-based ...

Ethanol 'disaster' risk for boats - Brisbane Times
ETHANOL blend fuel pose a risk for boat owners and is "potentially disastrous for any vessels that use petrol fuel tanks more than a few years old," industry experts say. Government and industry adviser Gary Fooks said the blended fuel might be all ...



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