Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 04/26/2009



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 ...

Calif. approves nation's 1st low-carbon fuel rule - Guardian Unlimited
Associated Press Writer= SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) âEUR” 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 ...

April 23, 2009 Letters to the a
"To those of you who called me stupid for what I wrote. You're the stupid one's. You only saw what " Attendees agree: Gay marriage "be careful geepah some one will tell you hollywood slots is not the reason for the crimes...

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...

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 ...

Biochar - menace or benefit?COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 24 April 2009.
It's sheer magic the way the system takes promising concepts, hands them over to the market and turns them into howling social and environmental disasters...

California rule could end ethanol's honeymoon
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...

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...

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 ...

California's Low-Carbon Fuel Rule: A Boon for Alternative Fuels?
California passed the country's first low-carbon fuel standard law yesterday, with a goal of cutting carbon emissions 10% by 2020...

Letter to the Editor: Ethanol can make air safer - Tri-State Neighbour
To the Editor: Mothers seldom make excuses for their smoking habit's risk factors for their infants: They just quit. Tragically, mothers and the rest of us have excused our complicity in creating a traffic area benzene cloud that increases children's ...

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. ...

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". ...

A $100-million bet on making fuel from trash - Los Angeles Times
Arnold Klann has a green dream. It began 16 years ago in a sprawling laboratory in Anaheim. This year, he hopes, it will culminate at a Lancaster garbage dump. There, in the high desert of the Antelope Valley, Klann's company, BlueFire Ethanol Fuels ...

Biofuel loses fight with California pollution regulators .
Instead of whining about the regulations perhaps the EUR˜biofuel' industry should reconsider the sham of corn and sugar cane based ethanol fuels. The real promise of biofuels will come from cellulosic waste materials with the potential of ...

VIDEO Planting a new seed: Woods, grasses seen as renewable fuel . - Petoskey News-Review
In Northern Michigans forests and croplands, some believe theres potential to reap fuel for vehicles and power plants in a renewable way. Having Problems? Update Flash. By 2012, a plant producing cellulosic ethanol from forest resources is ...

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..

Engines of change
The auto industry has a large variety of fuel-wise vehicles on the market, with more on the way...

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, ...

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...

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...

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., ...

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...

New study finds no significant fuel pump problems with E20
Increasing the amount of ethanol blended into gasoline from 10 percent to 20 percent causes no significant change in performance of automotive fuel systems, according to research conducted by the Minnesota Center for Automotive Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato...

Energy Crisis Answer: Your Trashcan?
At first glance, 303 Bear Hill Road in Waltham, Massachusetts, doesn't look like the scene of an environmental revolution...

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...

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...

Colwich ethanol company has time to switch gears (The Wichita Eagle)
Dave Vander Griend is a practical man, a little something he first learned while growing up on a farm in northwestern Iowa. "You had to make do with what you had," Vander Griend said...

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 ...

Adding fuel to the fire? - Tampa Bay Online
The Environmental Protection Agency, at the urging of some segments of the agricultural industry, is considering a proposal to allow an increase of ethanol in gasoline to 15 percent, from the current 10 percent maximum allowed nationwide. The public ...

Kinder mulls sending ethanol on Plantation line - Reuters
ORLANDO, Florida, April 22 (Reuters) - U.S. oil products pipeline company Kinder Morgan Energy Partners ( KMP.N ) is exploring sending ethanol on the Louisiana to Virginia Plantation duct as business for the alternative motor fuel expands. "We are ...

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'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 ...

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. ..

Biofuels Cause Global Warming
This is becoming a battle between environmentalist factions . The California Air Resources Board late Thursday approved the controversial Low Carbon Fuel Standard, which would force fuel producers to lower their "carbon intensity" of their products by 10 percent by 2020...

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...

Soy futures rise on export optimism
U.S. soybean futures ended firm on Friday due to surging soy exports and a weaker dollar that made U.S. commodities less expensive overseas...

AE Biofuels to Supply Cellulosic Ethanol to Pearson Fuels E85 Stations . - MSN MoneyCentral
AE Biofuels, Inc., AEBF , 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 ...

Opinion: In S.D., more E15, E85 could be in our future
With the summer driving season just around the corner, ethanol is sure to be a hot topic again soon...

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...

10 Biofuels Companies You Need to Know About
This blog is written by a member of our expert blogging community and expresses that expert's views alone...

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 ...

Third group adds voice to chorus backing ethanol - High Plains Journal
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP)--A new ethanol advocacy group, Growth Energy, has been created to help educate people on how ethanol and agriculture can provide both fuel and feed, its supporters say. "All of agriculture is struggling to define ourselves in ...

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 ...

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...

Decision day nears for Calif. carbon rule on fuels - New York Times
California air regulators will vote Thursday on a rule that would reduce the average carbon content of transportation fuels by 10 percent within 11 years, a proposal that the ethanol industry is fiercely opposing. The target of the industry's ...

Michael Barone: Obama's foreign policy goes back to future
As Barack Obama finishes up his second major foreign tour, a pattern in his approach to foreign policy seems to be emerging...

California Kicks Corn-based Ethanol to the Curb; Welcomes Futuristic Biofuels
The corn ethanol industry already reeling fromA low gasoline prices and higher corn and energy costs suffered another blow to its bottom line and possibly its future Thursday when the California Air Resource BoardA OK'd the nation's first low-carbon fuel standard ...

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...

Greenfield Ethanol gets $14 million injection (Kincardine News)
Tiverton's Greenfield Ethanol plant will see up to $14 million in federal funding over the next seven years to reinforce the company's fuel alcohol business in an uncertain economic climate.[.]..



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