Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 06/10/2009



Indiana Grain Company, LLC: Blogs - Can The US Produce Enough Corn .
Posted: 06/09/09. Ethanol Fuels, I think, will be behind a big forthcoming shift at the USDA in ethanol policy for this country. Guest. Posted: 06/09/09. Who are we kidding! Ethanol blends would spike food overnight! Who wants that? ...

Despite headwinds, ethanol fuels hopes of economic stability in .
Despite headwinds, ethanol fuels hopes of economic stability in the Corn Belt. by Bridget Macdonald May 14, 2009. BigRiver. (www.bigriverresources.com). Undeterred by the current overcapacity in the ethanol industry, Big River Resources ...

Eric Ehrmann: How Sweet It Is. Brazil's Sugar Ethanol Fuels .
Ethanol trade has helped make China Brazil's top trade partner, replacing Uncle Sam, who had been top dog ever since Herbert Hoover was in the White House...

Brazil offers to help Africa boost food output - Stabroek News
DAKAR, (Reuters) - Brazil is ready to provide its  experience and technology free of charge to African nations  seeking to improve food production and develop biofuels, its  minister for development, industry and trade said yesterday. Brazil, a ...

Senator Invites EPA's Boss Down to the Farm
Sen. Charles Grassley , a genuine Republican farm boy from Iowa, a genuine farming state, has invited EPA administrator Lisa Jackson to join him on genuine American family farm...

Shell sells straw-based biofuel
Royal Dutch Shell is selling a biofuel made from straw at one of their service stations in Canada...

Lose-Lose on Biofuels?
Forcing the market to produce large amounts of renewable fuel will harm consumers...

End Human Trafficking - Change.org: Ethanol Fuels Debt Slavery in .
If you think ethanol is always a better fuel choice than gasoline, think again. A recent report from Catholic Land Pastoral links a rise in debt slavery in Brazil to a rise in the production of et...

Shell Service Station to Fill Tanks With Cellulosic Ethanol - Bloomberg
June 10 (Bloomberg) -- Royal Dutch Shell Plc , Europes largest oil company, said one of its service stations in Canada will become the first in the world to fill tanks with gasoline that contains advanced biofuel made from wheat straw. For one ...

Identity-Preserved Corn Could be Next for Ethanol Industry (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
Farmers could have to deliver identity-preserved corn to ethanol plants if the plants are to remain eligible for ethanol mandates, according to proposed Renewable Fuels Standard rules from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to Agriculture Online...

Education Center (CattleNetwork.com)
If the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grants a petition to allow a 50 percent increase in the allowable limits of ethanol in gasoline, livestock, poultry and food producers will face higher commodity costs, according to two new studies released today by Advanced Economic Solutions and FarmEcon LLC...

Ethanol made from straw flows at Shell pump (CNET)
Cellulosic ethanol company Iogen delivers ethanol made from agricultural residue to a pumping station in Ottawa but commercial-scale production is still not ready...

Energy future tied to national policy
Congressman Harry Teague, D-District 2, listens to concerns from Dr. Cecelia Williams, of Sandia National Laboratory, during a recent biofuels policy summit meeting...

Customers at Pa. gas Station may Have Pumped Higher Ethanol Blends (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
Giant-To-Go in Manheim Township, Pa. announced in a news release Friday that motorists who bought fuel at the Manheim Township location between 1:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. on May 30 may have pumped fuels that contained higher than E10 ethanol levels, according to the Lancasteronline.com in Lancaster, Pa...

Eric Ehrmann: How Sweet It IsEUR¦ Brazil's Sugar Ethanol Fuels .
Read full article China has made a $10 billion investment in energy giant Petrobras strengthening Brazil's efforts toward sustainability and putting sugar...

Leaders must target incremental change - Statesman Journal
The ethanol farce has demonstrated the unintended consequences of increased fuel costs, decreased mileage, damage to vehicles, global food shortages and higher food and animal feed costs. Millions of taxpayer dollars are ready to vanish into bankrupt ...

Coal-To-Liquids, Climate Change, and Energy Security (World Resources Institute)
On May 2nd, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee marked up the first major energy bill of the new 110th Congress. As of May 13th the bill includes incentives for biofuels, energy efficiency, and carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). At one point the Committee consideredEURbut ultimately rejectedEURa mandate for coal-to-liquids (CTL) fuels...

Ethanol to meet auto numbers
Millions of viewers saw Brazilian race car driver Helio Castroneves cross the finish line first at the Indianapolis 500 a couple of weeks ago...

Ethanol and Biodiesel Testimony Presented at EPA Hearing
The Environmental Protection Agency's public hearing on the proposed rule for the Renewable Fuels Standard is now underway in Washington, DC...

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

If ethanol is giving you gas pains, let the feds know - Statesman Journal
If youre a person who weighs anchor, then you might want to weigh in. Given the grief that gasoline with ethanol has given to boat motors, officials with the Oregon State Marine Board are asking boaters to chime in with comments on a federal ...

UVa Leads New Methane Research Center
Almost every time you fill up your car with gasoline it has 10 to 15 percent ethanol mix in...

AutoWired - Automotive news and information. Live (AutoWired)
Royal Dutch Shell is selling a biofuel made from straw at one of their service stations in Canada. The station in Ottawa will sell a blend of cellulosic ethanol and petrol...

Proposed EPA rules penalize ethanol, biodiesel
An Environmental Protection Administration hearing Tuesday on the proposed rulemaking for the Renewable Fuels Standard focused on the controversial theory called indirect land use change...

Higher U.S. ethanol blends seen spiking food prices - Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Raising the allowable levels of ethanol in conventional U.S. gasoline would help push up prices for corn and other grains and ultimately meat and dairy, economists associated with food groups said on Tuesday. The government ...

US faces complicated choices in electrifying auto fleet: report
Requirements for the US federal government to buy plug-in hybrid electric vehicles conflict at times with other energy-use obligations, and the Department of Energy along with other agencies should propose legislative fixes that would provide clearer guidance, the Government Accountability Office concluded in a report released Tuesday...

Biofuel Producers Give EPA an Earful on Renewable Fuel Standard
WASHINGTON, DC , June 9, 2009 - Biofuel and farm groups objected to the U.S. EPA's revisions to the National Renewable Fuel Standard today at a public hearing in Washington...

Is Oil Shock 2.5 Imminent?
The rebound of oil prices has been getting a good deal of attention, lately, though we haven't yet reached the point at which, like much of last year, the daily closing price of WTI is reported on every evening news broadcast...

RFA: EPA overstepped mandate in considering indirect land use
Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 2:45 PM by Ken Anderson The Renewable Fuels Association - RFA - says the EPA may have overstepped its mandate from Congress in making indirect land use changes part if its RFS rule-making process...

Biofuel Market - India - companiesandmarkets.com adds new report
Favourable government policies and initiatives are driving the Ethanol and bio-diesel production in India...

Biofuel Producers Give EPA an Earful on Renewable .
WASHINGTON, DC , June 9, 2009 - Biofuel and farm groups objected to the U.S. EPA's revisions to the National Renewable Fuel Standard today at a publicrifying auto fleet: report
Requirements for the US federal government to buy plug-in hybrid electric vehicles conflict at times with other energy-use obligations, and the Department of Energy along with other agencies should propose legislative fixes that would provide clearer guidance, the Government Accountability Office concluded in a report released Tuesday...

Biofuel Producers Give EPA an Earful on Renewable Fuel Standard
WASHINGTON, DC , June 9, 2009 - Biofuel and farm groups objected to the U.S. EPA's revisions to the National Renewable Fuel Standard today at a public hearing in Washington...

Is Oil Shock 2.5 Imminent?
The rebound of oil prices has been getting a good deal of attention, lately, though we haven't yet reached the point at which, like much of last year, the daily closing price of WTI is reported on every evening news broadcast...

RFA: EPA overstepped mandate in considering indirect land use
Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 2:45 PM by Ken Anderson The Renewable Fuels Association - RFA - says the EPA may have overstepped its mandate from Congress in making indirect land use changes part if its RFS rule-making process...

Biofuel Market - India - companiesandmarkets.com adds new report
Favourable government policies and initiatives are driving the Ethanol and bio-diesel production in India...

Biofuel Producers Give EPA an Earful on Renewable .
WASHINGTON, DC , June 9, 2009 - Biofuel and farm groups objected to the U.S. EPA's revisions to the National Renewable Fuel Standard today at a public hearing in Washington...

Hybrid Ferrari To Launch At LA Auto Show In December?
The F430 bio-fuel powered prototype is on the stand at Detroit in recognition of the growing interest in the U.S. for alternate fuels...

Wilmington port to store gas, ethanol for Wawa - Delaware Online
Wawa and its partners unveiled giant fuel-storage tanks at the Port of Wilmington on Monday, symbolizing the convenience-store chain's growth in the regional gasoline market. Wawa is leasing 11 new tanks and two older ones from Magellan Midstream ...

Valero, biofuels producers differ on emissions
Washington, D.C. - The newest big player in ethanol, Valero Energy Corp., is not on the same team as the rest of the industry when it comes to measuring the greenhouse gas emissions of biofuels...

University of Illinois Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research .
Despite headwinds, ethanol fuels hopes of economic stability in the Corn Belt. Medill Reports by Bridget Macdonald May 14, 2009. In June 2008, corn prices soared to $7.50 a bushel on high demand after spring flooding in the Midwest ...

Sugar Rebounds in N.Y. as Weaker Dollar Fuels Commodity Rally (Bloomberg)
June 9 (Bloomberg) -- Sugar futures rebounded in New York as a weaker dollar increased the appeal of commodities as a hedge against inflation. An index measuring the dollar against six other currencies fell as much as 1.5 percent, making commodities valued in the greenback cheaper for overseas buyers...

Ensus Prepares to Produce Britains First Wheat-Based Biofuel (Bloomberg)
June 10 (Bloomberg) -- Ensus Ltd. is preparing to start production at Britains first wheat-based bio-ethanol plant as the country increases requirements for cleaner-burning fuel...

Plant closings, other factors cut Ethanol Board revenue - Kearney Hub
KEARNEY EUR” Three of four idled Nebraska ethanol plants are expected to begin production under new ownership by Aug. 1, which is good news for the states economy and the Nebraska Ethanol Boards revenue stream. Ethanol Project Manager Steve ...

CPC in talks to plant jatropha for biofuel in Indonesia or Cambodia
CPC Corp., the state-owned Taiwanese oil refiner, said it's in talks to plant jatropha trees in either Indonesia or Cambodia for biofuel at a cost of "billions" of Taiwan dollars over the next six years...

Valero, biofuels producers differ on emissions (The Des Moines Register)
Washington, D.C. EUR” The newest big player in ethanol, Valero Energy Corp., is not on the same team as the rest of the industry when it comes to measuring the greenhouse gas emissions of biofuels...

Public Interest Energy: Carbon Recycling, Not "Sequestering" Our .
As reported in the N.Y Times, Big Oil, never one to miss out on a chemical engineering revolution, is beginning to throw their substanital weight behind ethanol fuels. Because this entire field is based upon creating new fuels out of ...

Shell first to sell gasoline blended with advanced biofuel
From today, customers at a Shell service station will become the first in the world to fill their tanks with gasoline containing advanced biofuel made from wheat straw...

R-Squared Energy Blog: How to Calculate Ethanol's Value
Optimist, the new Direct Injection, Variable Valve Timing, Turbocharged engines will, when combined with variable turbo-charging, pretty much "optimize" Gasoline, AND ethanol fuels. The "straight" gasoline versions are coming out This ...

Valero, biofuels producers differ on emissions - Des Moines Register
Washington, D.C. EUR” The newest big player in ethanol, Valero Energy Corp., is not on the same team as the rest of the industry when it comes to measuring the greenhouse gas emissions of biofuels. Trade groups representing most ethanol and biodiesel ...

Garbage never smelled so sweet | June 7, 2009
Jeff Surma, a founder of InEnTec and CEO of S4 Energy Solutions: “If we ever get to a hydrogen economy, this technology would be a fantastic source that would make hydrogen available all across the country.” 'Melting' garbage: How it works InEnTec's Plasma Enhanced Melter, pictured below at the company's research facility in Richland, ...

End ethanol subsidies - Baltimore Sun
Gal Luft was absolutely right in stating that we (and the world) are indeed in for an oil price shock ("We're in for a shock," June 2). However, Mr. Luft's proposed remedy - an open fuel standard and removing tariffs from imported ethanol - holds ...

Delay new biofuels rule one year: U.S. oil industry
The government should delay new rules that expand U.S. use of biofuels until 2011, the oil industry said on Tuesday, because there is too much work to do on the ground-breaking rules to start sooner...

"Ethanol fuels with low moisture content will corrode the internal .
"Ethanol fuels with low moisture content will corrode the internal surface of the fuel rails." Posted May 26th, 2009 by Prometheus 6. in. Economics · The Great Ethanol Scam Not only is ethanol proving to be a dud as a fuel substitute ...

Sudan inaugurates biofuel plant - Middle East Online
Sudanese President says plants production is forecast to reach 200 million litres in two years. KHARTOUM - Sudan will begin producing ethanol from sugar cane with a target of 200 million litres in two years, President Omar al-Beshir said on ...

California Adopts Renewable Fuels Program (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
The California Energy Commission adopted the states first Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicle Technology Program Investment Plan, according to Ethanol Producer Magazine, which is expected to award some $176 million in the next two years to stimulate green transportation projects and innovation on climate change policies...



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