Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 07/02/2009

Delray Oil Baroness Banks on Jatropha
Gevinson's Jatropha: Profitable and entirely legal! Teri Gevinson thinks money grows on trees...

Wesley Clark: Ethanol's field general (CNN Money)
If ever there were an industry in need of a general, it's the ethanol industry. Already under siege from food companies blaming biofuels for rising grocery prices, ethanol companies are now seeing their profit margins crushed by falling prices for their product. Compounding the problem, many environmentalists -- who five minutes ago seemed to be in ethanol's corner -- have turned against the ...

RFA's Moore: 'Ethanol Industry in Recovery Mode' (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
The Renewable Fuels Association's Kristy Moore told the Peoria Journal Star in Peoria, Ill. that 2009 appears to be the beginning of a profit recovery for the U.S. ethanol industry...

Crews contain major ethanol spill - Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Emergency services are still working to clean up a major fuel spill in Sydney's west. Around 6,000 litres of ethanol escaped from a leaking tanker at a Rosehill oil refinery last night, with some escaping down stormwater drains. But the Department of ...

E85 Ethanol in Every Car? - Wheels Blog - NYTimes.com
But such an economy would not support the current political-economic structure, including the massive subsidies needed to support ethanol fuels. It would contract until it was energetically sustainable. The landscape, the built ...

EPA extends comment period on biofuel standard - Reuters UK
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday said it was extending the comment period on a draft rule that aims to cut greenhouse gases emitted by biofuels. The proposed changes to the 2007 U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard ...

Rail Continues to be Primary Mode of Ethanol Transport (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
An estimated 70 percent of U.S. ethanol moves to market via rail, said Kristy Moore, technical director of the Renewable Fuels Association, and railways will continue to be the primary way to transport ethanol for the foreseeable future, according to the Rockford Register Star in Rockford, Ill...

EPA extends comment period on biofuel standard
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday said it was extending the comment period on a draft rule that aims to cut greenhouse gases emitted by biofuels...

Texas Considers Alternative Fuels In The Face of Oil Prices A Run .
These are not always technically distinguishable from hybrid models, as most electrically powered vehicles have a back-up system that runs on petroleum-based, biodiesel, or ethanol fuels. For the purpose of clarity, however, ...

Obama energy policy to cost taxpayers
President Obama has targeted oil, natural gas and coal - all carbon fuels - for higher taxation, an energy expert told a Tulsa luncheon on the eve of the a oecap and tradea vote last week in the U.S. House...

Volvo: Investment in Volvo's Fuel-Cell Technology to Create 100 New.
Volvo: Investment in Volvo's Fuel-Cell Technology to Create 100 New Positions STOCKHOLM, Sweden--Regulatory News: In partnership with international corporations Midroc and OCAS, the Swedish Energy Agency and the Volvo Group are investing SEK 200 M in Volvo's development of fuel cells...

Mansfield Oil Acquires C&N Companies
Today, $5.1 billion Mansfield Oil Company announces the acquisition of C&N Companies, a leading ethanol marketer that represents 500 million gallons of ethanol production and 150 million gallons of biodiesel production capacity...

Hawaii gas prices average $3.20 a gallon - Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Hawaii gas prices jumped by double digits this week, adding as much as 14 cents a gallon in the state that already had the most expensive fuel in the nation. The gas price hike came because state lawmakers failed to extend a general excise tax ...

EPA extends deadline for input on Renewable Fuel Standard - Argus Leader
In March, the ethanol trade group Growth Energy and 54 ethanol manufacturers submitted a green jobs waiver to the EPA to allow the nations gasoline supply to be blended with 15 percent ethanol, saying the increase from 10 percent would create jobs ...

DrumBeat: July 2, 2009
The alternative choice - Steven Chu wants to save the world by transforming its largest industry: energy WHETHER Steven Chu, America's energy secretary, would be flattered or horrified by the comparison is unclear, but he and Margaret Thatcher have something important in common...

Drop in foreign oil prices resulting in drop in ethanol sales (Minnesota Public Radio)
Minnesota has more ethanol, or E-85, gas stations than any other state, and with the fall in the price of foreign oil it means sales of ethanol have dropped...

Ethanol Industry Welcomes EPA Comment Extension
The Environmental Protection Agency today formally announced a 60 day extension of the comment period on the proposed rule revising the national Renewable Fuel Standard program, commonly referred to as RFS2...

Hawaii gas prices surge
Hawaii gas prices jumped by double digits this week, adding as much as 14 cents per gallon in the state that already had the most expensive fuel in the nation...

Dow Announces Plan To Build And Operate A Pilot-Scale.
The Dow Chemical Company announced recently that it plans to work with Algenol Biofuels, Inc...

Green spending and stimulus: Curiously slow
THE economy is wobbly, oil prices are rising and voters have climate change on their minds...

Central Illinoisan spreading the ethanol gospel (Peoria Journal Star)
Kristy Moore is a resident of Heyworth, just south of Bloomington, who travels the country spreading the word about ethanol - behind the scenes, that is...

Letter: Cap and Trade Bill nothing but a hoax - Dickinson Press & Advertiser
As you should know by now, the U.S. House passed HR 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. Better known as the Cap and Trade Bill. This disastrous and dangerous bill is truly a wolf in sheeps clothing. It supposedly addresses ...

EPA Official Wrong on Ethanol and Biodiesel Yields
A YouTube video of EPA official Margo Oge testifying before a House panel in May reveals her providing radically incorrect information about the amount of corn and soybeans it takes to make biofuels...

Planet Ark (Planet Ark)
A process operator shows a handful of corn at the GreenField Ethanol plant in Chatham, Ontario, in this April 10, 2008 file photo. Photo: Mark Blinch/Files..

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...

US weekly ethanol margins up on lower corn prices - Reuters
NEW YORK, June 26 (Reuters) - Average U.S. ethanol margins have risen over the past two weeks on lower prices for corn, the top raw material cost for distillers, experts said. "As long as corn prices stay under $4.50 a bushel level and we have a ...

The Ethanol Fuel Hoax « Journal of Whole Food and Nutritional Health
When it comes to U.S. ethanol fuels, we must not forget that we are burning food and taking millions of farm acres out of food production. When livestock is fed ethanol wastes, human pathogen counts go way up in the meat. ...

Solar cell prices continue decline, parity with fossil fuels by 2015 (Geek.com)
The Taiwan governments Ministry of Economic Affairs announced that effective July 1 the maximum subsidy for new installation of photovoltaic (PV) projects would be reduced by 20% from $4580 per kilowatt-hour-peak (KWp) to $3664 per KWp. In addition, all subsidies will be capped at 50% of the total cost of the installation. The reduction is not [.]..

Ethanol producers look to bright future (Bozeman Daily Chronicle)
Beneath a banner that read EURœEthanol: Helping Achieve Homeland Security,EUR people from 12 states, three Canadian provinces and Japan gathered in Bozeman Monday to discuss the future of their industry, which has come under intense scrutiny over the last year...

"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 ...

Bioethanol: five questions and answers - Autoblog UK
The German automobile association, ADAC, warns that the new ethanol fuels E50 and E85 are likely to cause costly damage to ordinary petrol-driven cars, since these are not adapted to run on them. It is a different story when the engine ...

New Technological Advances Hope to Increase Automobile Industry
With the automobile industry going through bankruptcy, there need to be new advances in order for the industry to become successful again...

E85 Boondoggle Of The Day: All Ethanol, All The Time | The Truth .
There might, someday, be a viable way to make ethanol fuels in quantity. On the other, this makes it easier to just mandate the fuel itself, which, until it's net-energy positive, is bad. SunnyvaleCA : June 23rd, 2009 at 1:24 pm ...

Dow Announces Plan To Build And Operate A Pilot-Scale Algae-Based Integrated Biorefinery With Algenol Biofuels (ChemicalOnline)
The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW ) announced recently that it plans to work with Algenol Biofuels, Inc. to build and operate a pilot-scale algae-based integrated biorefinery that will convert CO2 into ethanol. The facility is planned to be located at Dow's Freeport, Texas site..

Businessman narrows ethanol site selection - NWI.com
Earl Powers, president and chief executive officer of Powers Energy, said Tuesday he plans to chose from among one of four locations in the Interstate 65 and U.S. 41 corridors. "We have one offer out now on a piece of ground and another subject to ...

Volvo: Investment in Volvoa s Fuel-Cell Technology to Create 100 New Positions
In partnership with international corporations Midroc and OCAS, the Swedish Energy Agency and the Volvo Group are investing SEK 200 M in Volvo's development of fuel cells...

Better Living Through Chemistry: Dow Boosts Algae Biofuel
When Dow Chemical Co . decides to get into the algae biofuel business, ita s a sure sign that algae as a go-to alternative and renewable energy source has entered the big leagues...

Grassoline: Biofuels Beyond Corn
Scientists are turning agricultural leftovers, wood and fast-growing grasses into a huge variety of biofuels - even jet fuel...

AFBF Economist: 'Greater Corn Supplies Could Lead to Higher Ethanol Blend Rate' (DTN / The Progressive Farmer)
American Farm Bureau Federation Senior Economist Terry Francl said a USDA report that U.S. farmers planted the second-largest corn crop ever could encourage the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to move to a higher ethanol-blend rate, according to AFBF...

Wesley Clark: Ethanol's field general - CNN Money
(Fortune Magazine) -- If ever there were an industry in need of a general, it's the ethanol industry. Already under siege from food companies blaming biofuels for rising grocery prices, ethanol companies are now seeing their profit margins crushed by ...

Mansfield Oil Acquires C&N Companies Upstream Ethanol Market Extension . - CNBC
ATLANTA, Jul 02, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today, $5.1 billion Mansfield Oil Company announces the acquisition of C&N Companies, a leading ethanol marketer that represents 500 million gallons of ethanol production and 150 million gallons of biodiesel ...

Wesley Clark: Ethanol's field general
If ever there were an industry in need of a general, it's the ethanol industry. Already under siege from food companies blaming biofuels for rising grocery prices, ethanol companies are now seeing their profit margins crushed by falling prices for their product...

Magical Thinking in California - Spectator.org
California's a mess. A bankrupt fiasco. A state that has regulated and spent itself into a well of debt so deep it makes the economic situation in the other 49 states seem not half-bad. But instead of putting a chokehold on California's run-amok ...

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

Ethanol Production May Consume Too Much Water
UF post-doctoral researcher Jason Evans and professor Matthew Cohen say ramping up crop production for ethanol "would have significant impacts on both land use and water resources." [Photo: Ray Carson] From agricultural and energy company boardrooms to university laboratories, excitement is building over the potential for large-scale biofuel ...

EPA extends deadline for input on Renewable Fuel Standard
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday a 60-day extension for people to comment on the Renewable Fuel Standard...

Catalysing the fuels of the future
US biofuel producer Virent Energy Systems has been awarded the US Environmental Protection Agency 's Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Small Business Award for its development of a cost-effective and energy-efficient method of turning plant sugars into hydrocarbon fuels...

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...

Lots of Ink: Algae suddenly the glamour gunk of the sustainable fuel and energy biz
All of a sudden it seems that the news is full of big transparent cylinders and ponds teeming with algae...

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