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Earth Biofuels Changes Name to Evolution Fuels, Defines New Business Focus (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
DALLAS, Texas, May 1, 2009 -- Earth Biofuels, Inc. today announced that it has changed its name to "Evolution Fuels, Inc." in order to better reflect the Company's strategy of developing demand and providing pump capacity for renewable transportation fuels at the retail level...

BlueFire Ethanol Fuels teams up with Applied Power Concepts to .
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, an ethanol transportation fuel company, has struck a technology development services agreement with Dr William Farone and his company Applied Power Concepts...

US weekly ethanol margins at break even on corn (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News)
NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) - Average weekly U.S. ethanol profits held near break even on strong corn prices and soft fuel demand, market players said on Friday...

US weekly ethanol margins at break even on corn - Reuters UK
NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) - Average weekly U.S. ethanol profits held near break even on strong corn prices and soft fuel demand, market players said on Friday. "Overall demand for ethanol remains soft, and it looks like it will be that way through ...

AE Biofuels partners with Pearson Fuels to distribute cellulosic .
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels ready to break ground on waste-to-ethanol plant in Calfornia; BlueFire Ethanol Fuels is ready to break ground by April on its 3.1 Mgy waste-to-ethanol plant near Lancaster, California. The company is awaiting its ...

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 ...

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". ...

Record Amount of Supercomputer Time Means New Science (Wired News)
The Department of Energy plans to release 1.3 billion supercomputer processing hours to the scientific community in 2010. That means scientists can tackle difficult new questions about astrophysics, climate, fuels, diseases and more...

California carbon laws to hurt ethanol (North Queensland Register)
California has become the first state in the US to mandate carbon-based reductions in transportation fuels, which will have big impacts for the future of biofuels...

White House finishes review of ethanol draft rule (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
The White House has finished a review of a rule that aims to cut emissions from alternative motor fuels like ethanol, federal environmental regulators said on Thursday. ..

Two Billion Cars - Guardian Unlimited
Or, as the subtitle rather optimistically puts it, "Driving Towards Sustainability". Sounds a bit like tree-felling towards biodiversity. Well, there are already more than 1bn cars on the planet, and these authors, energy and transport mavens, see an ...

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...

Propel Fuels Partners with Enterprise on Industry-leading Green Program (The Auto Channel)
SACRAMENTO, Calif.--Propel Fuels, a leading retailer of clean, renewable fuels, announced today a partnership with Enterprise Rent-A-Car, to fuel Enterprises rental cars in the Sacramento area with renewable E85 Flex Fuel. This first-of-its-kind program in the area helps educate Enterprise customers on how to EURœfuel green and save greenEUR with Propel E85 (85 percent ethanol and 15 percent ...

RFA: Ethanol Industry Disappointed In California Low Carbon Fuel . - CattleNetwork.com
Renewable Fuels Association CEO Bob Dinneen Says Standard Sets Dangerous Precedent This edition of the Ethanol Report features comments from Renewable Fuels Association president and CEO Bob Dinneen on the vote by the California Air Resources Board ...

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 ...

Propel Fuels Partners with Enterprise on Industry-leading Green Program (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SACRAMENTO, Calif.----Propel Fuels, a leading retailer of clean, renewable fuels, announced today a partnership with Enterprise Rent-A-Car, to fuel Enterprise's rental cars in the Sacramento area with renewable E85 Flex Fuel...

BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc. Partners With William Farone 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 ...

Ken Gansmann: Ethanol in fuel is a rip-off (Summit Daily News)
There are some well-known but little-published facts about the fuels we use to move our vehicles...

Earth Biofuels Changes Name to Evolution Fuels, Defines New Business . - MSN MoneyCentral
Evolution Fuels will focus its business operations on establishing retail fueling locations that carry blends of ethanol and biodiesel. The Company plans to build on the model of the Willie's Place Truck Stop at Carl's Corner, TX -- to provide ...

California Adopts Landmark Low-Carbon Fuel Rule - Post Chronicle
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 plan. The low-carbon fuel standard ...

Annawan ethanol plant begins international shipments (Bureau County Republican)
ANNAWAN EUR” Patriot Renewable Fuels CEO/Chairman Gene Griffith recently announced the company has begun to ship containerized shipments of Distillers Dried Grains as a way to add value to the company...

Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo: Biofuel from Corn Ethanol Is Not .
So called "next generation" advanced cellulosic ethanol fuels from non-food plants and plant parts, including forest biomass, will not resolve these problems. All industrially produced biofuel crops from biomass, edible or not, ...

Annawan ethanol plant begins international shipments - Bureau County Republican
ANNAWAN EUR” Patriot Renewable Fuels CEO/Chairman Gene Griffith recently announced the company has begun to ship containerized shipments of Distillers Dried Grains as a way to add value to the company. EURœBeing located on Interstate 80 and not far ...

Investors see bright future in wind energy - AZCentral.com
DES MOINES, Iowa - When President Barack Obama stood in front of wind turbine towers in a Newton, Iowa, factory last week he was not only pushing his green energy policies but promoting an industry that has been growing rapidly and gaining favor with ...

Calif. approves nation's first low-carbon fuel rule; oil and ethanol . - Newsday
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) EUR” 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 ...

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...

Culver Asks EPA For Ethanol Waiver - WHO-TV
Governor Culver is requesting a waiver from the federal governmethanol fuels from non-food plants and plant parts, including forest biomass, will not resolve these problems. All industrially produced biofuel crops from biomass, edible or not, ...

Culver Asks EPA For Ethanol Waiver - WHO-TV
Governor Culver is requesting a waiver from the federal government to allow the sale of E-15 ethanol in Iowa. Culver made the request Friday to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He says increasing the amount of ethanol that can be blended ...

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., ...

AFBF Calls for Increasing Ethanol Blend up to 15 Percent (American Farm Bureau)
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 29, 2009 EUR The federal government should increase the ethanol blend level up to 15 percent, which will promote environmental protection, help create jobs and reduce dependence on foreign oil, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation...

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