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



Low CO2 Canadian-Made Cellulosic Ethanol Fuels Premier's .
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or daily email newsletter. | Sourced From Marketwire.com |OTTAWA, ONTARIOEUR(Marketwire - Aug. 4, 2009) - Canadian-made cellulosic ethanol will fuel the official vehicle fleet ...

Terra Grain Fuels eyes ethanol plant completion
Terra Grain Fuels' $140-million, 150-million-litre-per-year ethanol plant under construction at Belle Plaine is on time and on budget, according to Tim LaFrance, president of Regina-based Terra Grain Fuels...

Producers seek higher ethanol limit in gas (The Des Moines Register)
Washington, D.C. - The Obama administration is under pressure from some in Congress to allow a higher amount of corn ethanol in gasoline, a move that would provide a jolt to ethanol producers...

Thune: EPA rule hurts S.D. ethanol effort (The Argus Leader)
WASHINGTON - Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., accused the Obama administration Friday of undercutting the ethanol industry by using what he called a flawed rule-making model to update the federal renewable-fuels standard. The model, detailed Friday, is the basis for a rule the Environmental Protection Agency proposed in May that Thune said would hurt ethanol producers because it tries to measure ...

Illinois Congresswoman Halvorson Supports E15
Illinois Congresswoman Debbie Halvorson yesterday voiced her support of increasing the blend of ethanol in gasoline to 15 percent...

ADM says US ethanol blend likely to rise in 2010 - Reuters
CHICAGO, Aug 4 (Reuters) - U.S. agricultural processor and ethanol producer Archer Daniels Midland Co ( ADM.N ) said on Tuesday that it expected the percentage of ethanol allowed in the U.S. fuel supply to increase in 2010. Current guidelines allow ...

Expansions hurt ethanol plants
The ethanol industry is one that is growing every year. But a broad expansion has caused financial difficulties for some ethanol plants...

Experts say electric cars are on the way
Automakers, biofuel companies and battery makers are rushing to bring two new technologies to the nation's auto fleet: plug-in electric hybrids and cellulosic ethanol...

'No subsidy' until $90
The government will not subsidise fuel prices unless world oil prices exceed $90 per barrel, or diesel prices top 35 baht a litre, says Pornchai Rujiprapha, the permanent secretary to the Energy Ministry...

Driver beware: Ethanol fuels confuse some motorists EUR High Point .
Driver beware: Ethanol fuels confuse some motorists High Point Enterprise (subscription) Many gas pumps across the country and in the Triad contain stickers alerting a customer if they are pumping an ethanol blend of fuel, ...

The Petri Dish Overfloweth with Algae Advancements
Algae, algae, algae. The research that is occurring on this second generation fuel has overfloweth the petri dish as just this week there have been five major algae announcements...

Experts say electric cars are on the way (Detroit News)
Traverse City -- Automakers, biofuel companies and battery makers are rushing to bring two new technologies to the nation's auto fleet: plug-in electric hybrids and cellulosic ethanol...

How SA could liberate power and fuel from its sugar cane fields - Engineering News
If South Africas sugar industry is to grow, it has to keep an eye on new markets and opportunities, one of which may, once current restrictions are overcome, manifest in sugar cane-based energy. Based on revenue generated through sugar sales in ...

Ethanol's Deadly Brew - Bloomberg.co.jp
Ethanol's Deadly Brew Thousands of Brazilian sugar cane workers are injured and scores die each year in the rush to produce a fuel that Presidents Bush and Lula celebrate as a path to energy independence. By Michael Smith and Carlos Caminada ...

Ethanol Industry Concerns About EPA Peer Review
The Environmental Protection Agency's peer review of the renewable fuel standards lifecycle analysis released today is being characterized by corn and ethanol industry groups as biased, bizarre and puzzling...

Low CO2 Canadian-Made Cellulosic Ethanol Fuels Premier's .
Low CO2 Canadian-Made Cellulosic Ethanol Fuels Premier's Conference in Regina...

Expansions hurt ethanol plants (Fergus Falls Daily Journal)
Despite the negative profit margins loan defaults dont occur in the ethanol industry any more than in any ...

If Cash for Clunkers Survives, Will Ethanol Funding Suffer? - The Daily Green
Congress saves the day! It miraculously comes up with $2 billion to save the bankrupt Cash for Clunkers program , which somehow ran through it's meager funding in just four days! But the $2 billion wasn't just lying around--it was effectively ...

Ethanol Producers Group Calls for Congress to Repeal International.
Tom Buis, CEO of Growth Energy , responded to the publication of the Environmental Protection Agency peer review study of the proposed international land use change provision in the Renewable Fuel Standard rule by calling for Congress either to repeal the ILUC provision or to require a review by the National Academy of Sciences...

Is Corn Ethanol Cleaner than Crude Oil? - Wall Street Journal
Its anything but an academic questionEURit could determine, in part, how America fuels its cars in the future. The Environmental Protection Agency dealt a big blow to the ethanol industry earlier this year when it decreed that the corn-based fuel ...

Low CO2 Canadian-Made Cellulosic Ethanol Fuels Premier's .
Sourced From Marketwire.com | OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Aug. 4, 2009) - Canadian-made cellulosic ethanol will fuel the official vehicle fleet at the...

"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 ...

Independent U.S. Ethanol Producers Will Not Survive as Price Takers - Newsblaze.com
The issue is whether the proper development of an advanced biofuel industry in the United States is feasible when: (a) independent ethanol producers in the U.S. are at the mercy of volatile commodities markets for feedstock; and (b) the price of ...

Surely Some Flora Out There Can Fuel My Car
Serious efforts to find an economically sound and carbon-smart biological-based fuel a ' such as cellulosic ethanol or algae and bacteria-derived fuel a ' continue...

Thune: EPA rule hurts S.D. ethanol effort
WASHINGTON - Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., accused the Obama administration Friday of undercutting the ethanol industry by using what he called a flawed rule-making model to update the federal renewable-fuels standard...

BMW gets set for all-electric EURCityEUR driving (The Post and Courier)
Last week this column reported on BMWs principal product plans. Today we will cover plans for the companys upcoming electric car. That will follow key points of a letter from Charleston resident Peter C. Stabovitz Jr. regarding alternate fuels. His letter is too good to delay in publishing. See if you agree EUR..

Low CO2 Canadian-Made Cellulosic Ethanol Fuels Premier's Conference in . - Market Wire
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Aug. 4, 2009) - Canadian-made cellulosic ethanol will fuel the official vehicle fleet at the 2009 meeting of the Council of the Federation in Regina, August 5 to 7. A blend of low CO2 cellulosic ethanol, produced from ...

Freedom Fuels bioplant likely sold to Iowa firm (The Globe Gazette)
MASON CITY EUR Faced with more than $30 million in debts, Freedom Fuels LLC, the biodiesel plant that opened in 2006, is being sold to a company in Marcus...

Ethanol tariff inflates the price of US corn - Arizona Daily Star
President Obama's nominee as ambassador to Brazil, Thomas A. Shannon Jr., is a longtime diplomat trained to speak honestly without giving unnecessary offense. So when Sen. James Webb, D-Va., asked Shannon during his July 8 confirmation hearing about ...

UM Native American Lab Snags Big Green Energy Grant
NARL Director Michael Ceballos. Photo by UM. Big dollars for green energy - and for a unique University of Montana program - arrived this week at the UM Native American Research Laboratory , considered the only such research facility in the nation for Native college students...

DF Cast: Pure Energy Goes on the Air
There's a new radio show in town and its focus is something near and dear to the hearts of many of you who read this blog...

'Reality Pricks Corn Ethanol's Bubble'
Does corn ethanol have a future? Let's hope not: Reality Pricks Corn Ethanol's Bubble, by Doug Struck, Miller-McCune : .Corn-based ethanol was seen as such an ideal solution for our transportation fuel that Congress leaped to write it into law...

International Bio-diesel Day on 10th : Bio-diesel can reduce reliance on imported oil
International Bio-diesel Day on 10th : Bio-diesel can reduce reliance on imported oil By Ijaz Kakakhel ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is highly dependent on imported fuels, however, sustainable production of bio-diesel presents an opportunity to reduce reliance on imported oil, save foreign reserves, reduce poverty and unemployment...

Ethanol's Future In Doubt
Once touted as a key solution to America's energy problems, ethanol's future is very much in doubt...

Exactly why corn-based ethanol fuels are a BAD IDEA
Exactly why corn-based ethanol fuels are a BAD IDEA View the site for full entries!..

Low CO2 Canadian-Made Cellulosic Ethanol Fuels Premier's Conference in Regina (Marketwire)
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Aug. 4, 2009) - Canadian-made cellulosic ethanol will fuel the official vehicle fleet at the 2009 meeting of the Council of the Federation in Regina, August 5 to 7. A blend of low CO2 cellulosic ethanol, produced from wheat straw at Iogen Corporation's cellulosic ethanol demonstration plant in Ottawa, will fuel a total of 40 flexible fuel Dodge Caravans at the ...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Of Corn Ethanol Production (CattleNetwork.com)
In last months article we discussed recent University of Nebraska research showing the Net Energy Balance, Ethanol to Petroleum ratio and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from the corn ethanol industry. Variations in these coefficients under alternative ethanol production systems were described...

Economic consequences of Waxman-Markey
After a truncated debate and last-minute changes, the House of Representatives narrowly passed climate-change legislation on June 26, 2009, designed by Henry Waxman and Edward Markey ...

Types of Ethanol Fuel and Vehicles
What types of ethanol fuels can run in certain vehicles? The truth is that all gasoline vehicles are capable of operating on gasoline/ethanol blends with up to 10% ethanol. In fact, some states require the seasonal or year-round use of ...

Thousands Support Nebraska Corn Board Effort to Increase Ethanol Blend Rate (PRWeb)
Ethanol production, demand remain strong. (PRWeb Aug 6, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Nebraska_Corn_Board/Ethanol/prweb2722034.htm..

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...

Thousands Support Nebraska Corn Board Effort to Increase Ethanol Blend Rate (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Ethanol production, demand remain strong...

Ethanol Now Fuels over Half of Brazilian Vechiles | Localcooling
If all vehicles currently equipped to operate on ethanol were to make a total switch to ethanol fuels, there are questions as to how long our food supplies would last. If large amounts of food crops were diverted to fuel production, ...

Corn ethanol industry strikes back against greenhouse gas emission charge
As there's rarely an attack without pushback, the Renewable Fuels Association has decided to interpret that report from their point of view and has found that certain sources of oil do indeed have a worse negative impact than corn ethanol...

Ethanol's Future In Doubt - Nuwireinvestor.com
Once touted as a key solution to America's energy problems, ethanol's future is very much in doubt. Pending regulation could make it more difficult to profit from ethanol fuel production which already faces many other challenges. To learn more see ...

India violating Indus Treaty: Zardari - Nation
ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the government is moving in right direction to address the problems of the people of Balochistan through dialogue and constitutional means. Addressing the members of the Youth Parliament at the ...

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

Ethanol tariff inflates the price of US corn
The following editorial appeared Wednesday in the Washington Post: President Obama's nominee as ambassador to Brazil, Thomas A. Shannon Jr., is a longtime diplomat trained to speak honestly without giving unnecessary offense...

Posts about motorcycle event as of August 4, 2009
More than 7,000 people are expected to attend the sixth annual East Coast Sturgis Motorcycle Rally that officially begins today at Apple Mountain off Exit 68 of Interstate 68, according to event promoter Ken Appel...

Oreg. increasing reliance on locally madebiodiesel
Pulling up to the pump in a diesel car or rig? In Oregon from now on, a small portion of the fill-up will be soybean squeezings or recycled cooking grease...



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