Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 05/08/2009



Gasoline prices again top $2 in Corridor
After about a six-month respite, gasoline prices have moved back above $2 per gallon for self-serve unleaded with 10 percent ethanol...

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, ...

Support higher ethanol blend - Bismarck Tribune
On March 6, Growth Energy submitted a request to the Environmental Protection Agency seeking approval of the ethanol-gasoline blends of up to 15 percent. The EPA is now accepting comments on this proposal. As a farmer and supporter of ethanol ...

Bioelectricity better than biofuels for transport
Vehicles propelled by biomass-fired electricity would travel farther on a given crop and produce fewer greenhouse-gas emissions than vehicles powered by ethanol, researchers report today...

Critics Find Flaws in the Case Made by Ethanol Advocates (New York Times)
Studies from a trade group for the ethanol industry have been called into question by critics...

Rogers meets with Hollis Crossroads residents
U.S. Congressman Mike Rogers visited Hollis Crossroads recently and met with constituents at Buddy's Sports where he discussed the economy, the national budget, gas prices and bailouts...

10% ethanol fuels taking over.
Forum: Fuel Economy and Gas Related Discussion Posted By: Chris93Si Post Time: 05-02-2009 at 06:12 PM...

Biofuels bring down ethanol (The Triangle Online)
California made a decision April 23 to pass the Low Carbon Fuel Standard bill, which will limit the amount of carbon dioxide that can be produced by both the fuels being used as well as the process by which those fuels are created. One of the industries that will be hit hardest is the ethanol, and it's about time...

BlueFire Ethanol Fuels commends President Obama's Biofuels .
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels commends President Obama's Biofuels Interagency Working Group...

Caution Flags Raised Over Ethanol Industry?s 15% Solution (New York Times)
The E.P.A. will decide this year whether to grant the ethanol industry?s request to raise the maximum amount of ethanol that can be added to gasoline...

AE Biofuels to Supply Cellulosic Ethanol to Pearson Fuels Filling Stations (Automotive Fleet)
CUPERTINO, CA --- AE Biofuels Inc., a global biofuels company, said it has signed a strategic agreement with Pearson Fuels to supply cellulosic ethanol to the company's renewable fuels filling stations in California...

Caution Flags Raised Over Ethanol Industrys 15% Solution - New York Times
That request has engine manufacturers and consumer advocates worried about possible damage, service station owners in a tizzy over the financial and legal implications and a leading petroleum industry group saying the move is unwise and premature ...

Timeline: Shifting strategies a drag on Otter's road funding plans . - Idaho Statesman
March 2005: The path to Idaho's transportation funding woes begins when Gov. Dirk Kempthorne proposes borrowing $1 billion against future federal fuel tax revenues for new construction. At a lunch with the House Republican caucus, then-U.S. Rep ...

The Thing About Land-Use Changes
If an acre of corn becomes ethanol, an acre of forest or grassland will be planted to food crops to compensate, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere...

Georgia passes bill on unblended fuel | Biodiesel and Ethanol .
Domestic Fuel reports that Georgia has passed a bill requiring suppliers to make available an unblended gasoline grade for marketers who want to make their own ethanol fuels. Refiners also would be barred from interfering with a ...

EPA: Iowa to stay No. 1 in ethanol
Iowaa TMs status as the top producer of corn ethanol is safe for years to come, according to the EPA...

Support higher blend of ethanol - Bismarck Tribune
Ethanol has already proven itself as a major player in our country's effort to become energy independent, and as an engine for economic development and job creation, especially in rural America. Much more, however, can be expected from this vital ...

US prof says 'bioelectric' cars much better than biofuel - The Register
Analysis A prof in California has made the unsurprising observation that you can produce more transport miles from an acre of cropland by growing biomass for generators and using electric vehicles than by burning crop biofuels in ordinary engines ...

Emerson To Host Alternative Fuels/Biorefinery Summit
Emerson Process Management will host the third in its series of regional summits across the United States to address recommendations to help drive the successful commercialization of alternative fuels, specifically second-generation biofuels...

Grain Outlook: Ethanol concerns rattle corn market
The following market analysis is for the week ending April 24. CORN - When the dust settled after trading a wide range of 26 cents this week, May corn was up three-quarter cents at $3.77 and the December contract was down one-quarter cent at $4.06 3/4. The week started off with sharply lower crude oil and stock markets, a U.S. dollar at one-month ...

Bioelectricity Promises More 'Miles Per Acre' Than Ethanol
How can we maximize our "miles per acre" from biomass? Researchers writing in the online edition of the journal Science on May 7 say the best bet is to convert the biomass to electricity, rather than ethanol...

Commentary: Will Obama leave our children powerless?
President Obama killed the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility - and with it any realistic chance of actually slashing U.S. carbon emissions without massive consumer costs...

Subcommittee Examines Renewable Fuel Standard Implementation
Today, the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research held a hearing to review the impact of the indirect land use and renewable biomass provisions in the renewable fuel standard...

Ethanol: Back from the Dead?
Bluefire Ethanol Fuels (BFRE.ob) rose 26 cents (38.24%) to 94 cents. - Aventine (ABRNQ.PK) rose 2.8 cents (32.18%) to 11.5 cents. Let's see how long these stocks will ride the Obama wave. Link to original post ...

Cosmic Log: Ethanol vs. electricity
Quantum fluctuations in space, science, exploration and other cosmic fields. served up regularly by MSNBC.com science editor Alan Boyle since 2002...

Biofuels vs. Biomass Electricity
Credit: USDA ; US Dept. of Energy A study published today in Science concludes that, on average, using biomass to produce electricity is 80 percent more efficient than transforming the biomass into biofuel...

10% ethanol fuels taking over.
Used to be only the cheap stations ran ethanol in their gas but in the last week or so I've noticed those "may contain up to 10% ethanol" stickers at BP, Exxon and Chevron :( With government mandates requiring more ethanol be used every ...

Energy Roundup: Google Buys Carbon Credits, Ba-bye to Oil and Gas Tax .
Google scoops up carbon credits in effort to offset emissions - Google's effort "to do no evil" took a little longer than expected in the carbon credits arena...

Virent Energy, Shell Poised for Second-Gen Biofuels Race
Now that theA dust kicked up over theA Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rules for the biofuels industry has settledA just a little bit, it's worth taking a look Virent Energy Systems and Royal Dutch Shell,A companies A well-positioned in the advanced biofuels race...

Biofuels: better for charging batteries than making ethanol (Ars Technica)
The promise of biofuels is pretty simple: we've already got the infrastructure for putting liquid fuels into our mobile transport, so creating a renewable form of liquid fuel takes advantage of our already extensive investments. From there on out, however, things don't look quite as promising. It's easiest to produce ethanol from plant matter, and ethanol isn't a perfect fit for the existing ...

What sort of energy crops might Louisiana grow?
Energy needs and the resulting chase for more corn and soybean acres have already changed the nation's cropping landscape...

BlueFire Ethanol Applauds Formation of Biofuels Interagency .
IRVINE, Calif.EURBlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. (OTC BB:BFRE), a company changing the worlds transportation fuel paradigm through the production of ethanol from non-food cellulosic wastes, commends President Obama for forming ...

Paula Flowers Is Democratic Candidate For 3rd District Congress
Paula Flowers, Tennessee's former Commissioner of Commerce and Insurance, announced today her candidacy for Tennessee's open 3rd Congressional District seat...

Filmmaker Roy Szuper's new focus is car that uses air for fuel - New York Daily News
Filmmaker Roy Szuper and promoter of the AirPod and Shiva Vencat in Manhattan. Shiva Vencat and Roy Szuper met two years ago while watching their sons play soccer. Because of that meeting, Szuper, an Astoria, Queens -born filmmaker, will show the ...

Construction Law Developments: They Can't Even Agree On What to .
Still being fought along regional lines are battles over carbon credit cap and trade provisions, whether the carbon footprint of corn based ethanol fuels must take into consideration rain forest destruction the world over for cropland ...

Money » Dr stock Pick End Of Day May 7, 2009 TEC, ALTU, LBIX, DDRX .
OB); Bluefire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. (BFRE.OB); Alternative Green Technologies, Inc. (AGTI.PK); Baby Bee Bright Corp. (BBYB.PK); Intelecom Inc. (IECM.PK). signup3m. Dow -102.43 -1.20% Nasdaq -42.85 -2.44%; S&P 500 -12.14 -1.32% ...

Study: Electric cars may be more efficient than ethanol (San Jose Mercury News)
Study by Stanford and UC says an acre of crops can power an ethanol-fueled car for 8,000 miles, but an electric one for 15,000 miles..

Law could close Valero's Memphis refinery
A pending state law that would change the way fuel refiners prepare gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel for wholesalers could close Valero Energy Corp...

United States Considers Biofuel Emissions
The Obama administration unveiled its first proposals for how the United States should implement its biofuels policies yesterday , announcing a plan to analyze the direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions related to the renewable fuels...

Get more Ag News and search more ads on these Lee Agri-Media sites: - Prairie Star
Our friends in the ethanol industry have put forward a petition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to allow for the restriction on ethanol blends in gasoline to be raised from 10 percent to 15 percent. A very impressive array of scientific ...

Emerson To Host Alternative Fuels/Biorefinery Summit (ChemicalOnline)
Emerson Process Management will host the third in its series of regional summits across the United States to address recommendations to help drive the successful commercialization of alternative fuels, specifically second-generation biofuels..

Biofuels: better for charging batteries than making ethanol
The promise of biofuels is pretty simple: we've already got the infrastructure for putting liquid fuels into our mobile transport, so creating a renewable form of liquid fuel takes advantage of our already extensive investments...

Study: Electric cars may be more efficient than ethanol
Ethanol from plants can fill up drivers' gas tanks, but people could drive 80 percent farther if we converted those crops into electricity, according to a new study by Stanford and University of California researchers...

Cosmic Log: Ethanol vs. electricity (MSNBC)
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Researchers say using biomass to generate electricity is more efficient than turning it into ethanol, but that doesn't mean the ethanol option is obsolete...

Merle Anderson, Climax, Minn., letter: Resisting ethanol does no one . - Grand Forks Herald
Published May 07 2009 Merle Anderson, Climax, Minn., letter: Resisting ethanol does no one any favors The fuel supply folks in Grand Forks need to step up to the plate and get some ethanol pumps installed. The region has a lot of customers ...

White Energy, Ethanol Producer, Files for Bankruptcy (Update3) (Bloomberg)
May 7 (Bloomberg) -- White Energy Holding Co. , a closely held ethanol maker with plants in Texas and Kansas, filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors...

Bioelectricity promises more 'miles per acre' than ethanol - Science Centric
Biofuels such as ethanol offer an alternative to petroleum for powering our cars, but growing energy crops to produce them can compete with food crops for farmland, and clearing forests to expand farmland will aggravate the climate change problem ...

Bioelectricity: Forget Biofuels, Study Says, Go Electric - Wall Street Journal
A new paper in Science says that using biomassEUR”corn or switchgrassEUR”to make electricity rather than ethanol is the smarter move on all counts. EURœBioelectricityEUR offers more energy per acre of cropland, and fewer environmental impacts ...

Administration addressing ethanol, climate change (Jefferson City News Tribune)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration renewed its commitment Tuesday to speed up investments in ethanol and other biofuels while seeking to deflect some environmentalists' claims that huge increases in corn ethanol use will hinder the fight against global warming...

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 ...



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