Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 11/26/2008



Ethanol Fuels Debate in Nebraska
Candidates for an open US Senate seat in Nebraska faced off at the state fair in Lincoln this weekend and ethanol was a topic of debate. Republican Mike Johanns, Democrat Scott Kleeb and Green Party candidate Steve Larrick all discussed ...

Stratos Renewables Secures Land Agreements in Peru to Produce Up to.
LOS ANGELES & LIMA, Peru-- --Stratos Renewables Corporation , an emerging agro-energy company developing a South American sugarcane ethanol operation, today announced that the company has secured enough land in ...

Ethanol in your boat fuel? -
Are marine engines compatible with ethanol fuels? The fuel-system components of most marine engines will withstand up to 10 percent ethanol in gasoline , the maximum level currently allowed in the U.S. ...

State Must Proceed in Search for Alternative Fuels
An ethanol producing company headquartered in Crisp County has been accused of violating Environmental Protection Division rules and regulations at a Bleckley County site...

Pit Stop: Ethanol Battles Roar Into the Indy 500 - Wall Street Journal
You dont have to be a corn belt politician, lobbyist, or international trade wonk to weigh in on the latest chapter in the great corn-versus-sugar ethanol debate. Pit strategy meets trade policy (AP) The war of words between U.S. corn ethanol and ...

Renewable Energy in Illinois
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 9:34 p.m. F armers in I llinois are working to keep those gas prices low...

American Coalition for Ethanol : News
In addition, Duane Kristensen of Chief Ethanol Fuels and Lars Herseth, the board's at-large representative, will also serve on the ACE Executive Committee. "We are honored to have such diverse grassroots leadership and experience ...

People running out of gas, bio-fuels not a fix - Pitt News
People are quickly running out of natural gas. But one environmental expert said that bio-fuels arent the solution. Pat Atkins, CEO of sustainability consulting firm Atkins 360, said he believes that bio-fuels, fuels produced from natural sources ...

First signs of consolidation in ethanol industry (INO News)
(AP:SIOUX FALLS, S.D.) The first salvo may have been fired this week in a long-awaited shakeout for the U.S. ethanol industry...

Sugar Rises Most in 2 Weeks as Oil Gain May Boost Ethanol Use (Bloomberg)
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Sugar surged the most in two weeks on speculation that a weakening dollar will boost the value of crude oil and alternative fuels, including ethanol made from cane...

Ethanol Makers Reject Blame For Food Prices (The Tampa Tribune)
Food retailers are wrongfully blaming the ethanol industry for jacking up the cost of a Thanksgiving Day feast, the Renewable Fuels Association said Tuesday...

As ethanol shipments grow, safety remains a concern - Environmental News Network
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Surging U.S. ethanol production may force the industry to step up transport safety measures in the face of growing concern that communities are ill-prepared to deal with the volatile, flammable liquid. Despite efforts to work ...

Ethanol Makers Seek Political Advantage In Detroit Bailout - CNNMoney.com

Ethanol Makers Seek Political Advantage In Detroit Bailout
CNNMoney.com - 11 hours ago
The Big Three US automakers together offer dozens of so-called flex-fuel vehicles that can run on gasoline that is 85% ethanol, but a dearth of e85 fueling .
Rising commodity prices delay biofuel momentum Portland Business Journal
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Ethanol plant delayed (Georgia Public Broadcasting News)
A Colorado-based company is delaying the opening of its ethanol plant in Soperton. One year ago Range Fuels broke ground on the nation's first cellulosic ethanol plant in Soperton. It was supposed to be finished by the end of the year...

GEFA head discusses energy needs in Perry - Macon Telegraph

GEFA head discusses energy needs in Perry
Macon Telegraph, GA - 57 minutes ago
By Chuck Thompson - cthompson@macon.com PERRY EUR Visiting the city that boasted the states first public E-85 ethanol fuel pump, Chris Clark predicted that .
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Fuel from food? The feast is over - Auburn Citizen

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Fuel from food? The feast is over
Auburn Citizen, NY - 15 hours ago
Last year, 139 US ethanol plants produced fuel equal to 5 percent of US gasoline consumption. As of July, however, just 33 cellulosic ethanol plants were in .
Children of the Corn: VeraSun, POET Talk Up Ethanol Deals Wall Street Journal Blogs
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The first in Oswego County: e85 pump includes ethanol from . - Fulton Valley News (subscription)

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The first in Oswego County: e85 pump includes ethanol from .
Fulton Valley News (subscription),  USA - 11 minutes ago
It looks and fuels just like regular gasoline; however, ethanol does not contain many of the harmful carcinogens and other toxic chemicals found in gasoline .
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Grant fuels installation of 29 ethanol stations (BizJournals)
Small oil and renewable fuel companies are making a big push to bring an ethanol-blend fuel into the Sacramento area...

Standards for the next generation of renewable fuels poised for release
A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency senior policy adviser said that the agency is generally "seeing positive greenhouse gas benefits from renewable fuels" in its tensely anticipated lifecycle analysis of ...

BRAZIL: Using Science and Thinking Small to Relaunch Biofuels
Clean and renewable energy sources are the new "El Dorado" in these times of economic crisis and global warming...

Leading Project Developers, Capital Providers and Contractors Will.
The entire project finance community -- leading project developers, capital providers and contractors -- will gather at "Projects & Money," produced by Infocast, to be held in New Orleans, LA, January 12-14, ...

Farmers Linked To VeraSun Challenged By Its Uncertain Future - CattleNetwork.com

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Farmers Linked To VeraSun Challenged By Its Uncertain Future
CattleNetwork.com, KS - 10 hours ago
"We'll still produce more ethanol in 2009 than we did in '08 and the federal Renewable Fuels Standard is there," he said.
VeraSun Receives Non-Binding Indication of Interest for Purchase . MarketWatch
Ethanol slump blindsides US corn growers guardian.co.uk
UPDATE 1-VeraSun says received unsolicited interest Reuters
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BlueFire Ethanol to Present at the Cellulosic Ethanol Summit
IRVINE, Calif., Nov 13, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. (OTC BB:BFRE.OB), a company changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of ethanol from non-food cellulosic wastes, ...

Ethanol-gas should not cause undue worry - Stillwater News Press
They can be seen across Oklahoma: Conspicuous signs at gasoline stations citing that fuel may contain up to 10 percent ethanol. EURśIt didnt take very long for the questions to start after July 1, when gasoline stations in Oklahoma were required to ...

Feds Get It Wrong Again: Ethanol, a Troublesome Substitute for Oil,.
Why did Republicans lose in the 2008 elections? The Republican party is too conservative The American people do not agree with its issues and positions The party has forgotten its principles and lost its way ...

First signs of consolidation in ethanol industry (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
The first salvo may have been fired this week in a long-awaited shakeout for the U.S. ethanol industry. VeraSun Energy Corp., the nation's No. 2 ethanol producer, announced it had received an unsolicited takeover bid one month after seeking bankruptcy protection, and just hours after the nation's biggest producer, Poet LLC, said it was talking with other companies about buyouts...

First signs of consolidation in ethanol industry - Houston Chronicle
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. EUR” The first salvo may have been fired this week in a long-awaited shakeout for the U.S. ethanol industry. VeraSun Energy Corp., the nations No. 2 ethanol producer, announced it had received an unsolicited takeover bid one month ...

Ethanol Makers Reject Blame For Food Prices
Food retailers are wrongfully blaming the ethanol industry for jacking up the cost of a Thanksgiving Day feast, the Renewable Fuels Association said Tuesday...

BlueFire Ethanol To Present At The Cellulosic Ethanol Summit
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc., a company changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of ethanol from non-food cellulosic wastes, has been invited to...

The Energy Roadmap - Novozymes opens world's largest bioenergy .
Bioenergy companies must continue to lower costs while scaling up their technologies, but this new sector facility is good news for start ups that go beyond corn feedstocks- Mascoma, Iogen, Verenium, Bluefire Ethanol Fuels, ...

UT fuels switchgrass revolution; Blount farmers encouraged to join bioenergy initiative
"How many of you have heard of switchgrass?" Just a few hands went up at the annual meeting of the Blount County Farm Bureau...

Bruce E. Dale: Thinking Clearly about Oil and Alternative Fuels
E85 corn ethanol fuels my American made car. What a concept, we can make our own fuel today. Reply Favorite Flag as abusive Posted 08:28 PM on 11/19/2008. - + NoWMDs See Profile I'm a Fan of NoWMDs I'm a fan of this user permalink ...

Ethanol Makers Blame Retailers For Costlier Holiday Meals
Food retailers are misleading the public, claiming increased ethanol use has driven up the price of corn, which is used in most food production, the trade association said...

With corn prices down, criticism of ethanol industry also declines - Arizona Daily Star
Q Now that corn prices have plunged, is the ethanol industry still in the hot seat for driving up prices? A Corn prices, like most commodities, have plunged since the summer buying frenzy, falling from almost $8 in July to $4.25 in October. Ethanol ...

Water Funding, Ethanol, Livestock Issues on Farm Bureau Agenda
Delegates to Nebraska Farm Bureau's 2008 convention next month will discuss repealing the water checkoff, increasing the amount of ethanol in blended gasoline, providing incentives for Livestock Friendly ...

U-M Researchers Developing Interactive Tool to Assess Viability of.
Researchers at the University of Michigan are launching a project to develop a Web-based, interactive modeling tool that can be used to analyze the likely impact and potential viability of proposed technologies ...

Planes, Trains and Automobiles
But a few changes may have been made during the recording of this audio podcast...

As gasoline prices tumble, retailers take a pass on ethanol
Depending on the retailer, Missouri drivers could be filling up their tanks with an ethanol blend well below the state-mandated 10 percent, and in some cases even pure regular unleaded...

ASTM Developing New Test Method for Relative Corrosivity of .
Test results will indicate the degree to which corrosion of iron components can be expected from ethanol fuels. The test will rate the fuels anti-rust properties in preparation for the various stages through which the tested product ...

First signs of consolidation in ethanol industry
The first salvo may have been fired this week in a long-awaited shakeout for the U.S. ethanol industry...

World Ethanol Market to Reach 27.7 Billion Gallons by 2012 .
. Ancom Berhad, Archer Daniels Midland Co, Aventine Renewable Energy Inc, Cargill Inc, Chief Ethanol Fuels Inc, Copersucar, Cosan S/A Ind e ComĂrcio, Delta-T, Glacial Lakes Energy LLC, Greenfield Ethanol Inc, Green Star Products Inc, ...

Report: Ethanol fuels state economy - Grand Island Independent
Despite difficulties currently facing the nation's ethanol industry, a new report says it has been a boon to Nebraska's and the nation's economy over the last 30 years. According to the report released this week from the economic consulting firm LECG ...

As gasoline prices tumble, retailers take a pass on ethanol (Columbia Missourian)
COLUMBIA EUR” Depending on the retailer, Missouri drivers could be filling up their tanks with an ethanol blend well below the state-mandated 10 percent EUR” and in some cases even pure regular unleaded.   Falling gas prices have allowed many retailers to take advantage of a provision in Missouri's renewable fuels standard. Under the law, if wholesale ethanol blends are more expensive than regular ...

Grant fuels installation of 29 ethanol stations - Sacramento Business Journal

Grant fuels installation of 29 ethanol stations
Sacramento Business Journal, CA - 17 hours ago
Small oil and renewable fuel companies are making a big push to bring an ethanol-blend fuel into the Sacramento area. Gas station owners and fleet-fueling .
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Deny the Bailout for the Big Three, save Detroit - Spero News

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Deny the Bailout for the Big Three, save Detroit
Spero News - 17 hours ago
When we say open-fuel or multi-fuel, we are not talking about the governmental cash cow currently going to the corn ethanol-big oil combine. .
Vic Doolan--Level the playing field AutoWeek
Congress Needs Homework Assignment Too Ward's Auto (subscription)
Hoping Not to Repeat the Mistakes of the Past New York Times
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US ethanol sector pushes automakers for support - Reuters

US ethanol sector pushes automakers for support
Reuters - 7 hours ago
Federal law requires the use of 9 billion gallons of renewable fuels this year, 10.5 billion gallons in 2009, eventually rising to 36 billion gallons by .
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Minnesota Farm Bureau president goes on ethanol production's defense (Grand Forks Herald)
Renewable fuels have been 'scapegoat for a whole variety of problems,' he says One of the largest challenges for farmers and ranchers is debunking the charge that diverting corn to ethanol production has raised food costs, according to the president of Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation. "We cannot afford to have agriculture divided as we face our upcoming challenges - we cannot have agriculture ...

IndyCar Series Partners with APEX-Brasil as Official Ethanol Supplier - PR Inside
In an effort to communicate the many options in which ethanol can be produced and to enhance its position as a global commodity, the IndyCar Series -- which has been at the forefront of the greening of racing and embraced renewable fuels since 2006 ...

VeraSun gets unsolicited buyout offer
The nation's second-largest ethanol producer, which is under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, said it has received an unsolicited buyout offer...

Ethanol Makers Reject Blame For Food Prices - Tampa Tribune

Ethanol Makers Reject Blame For Food Prices
Tampa Tribune, FL - 42 minutes ago
Food prices are higher than last year because retailers have failed to pass on savings from lower fuel prices to their customers, the Renewable Fuels .
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Scarcity of ethanol stations plagues federal alternative-fuel fleet (Columbia Missourian)
WASHINGTON EUR” The federal government has invested billions of dollars over the past 16 years, building a fleet of 112,000 alternative-fuel vehicles to serve as a model for a national movement away from fossil fuels. But the costly effort to put more workers into vehicles powered by ethanol and other fuel alternatives has been fraught with problems, many of them caused by buying vehicles before ...

Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly | Trouble in Your Tank?: Ethanol .
Ethanol Fuels More Problems Than It SolvesEURť by Thomas Millette, MHC associate professor of geography. He selected these sites. EUR˘ A January, 2008, article from U.S. News & World Report discusses EURśThe Pros and Cons of 8 Green Fuels.EURť ...

Stratos Renewables Corporation (OTCBB:SRNW) just released some important news.
Stratos Renewables Corporation - Stratos Renewables Secures Land Agreements in Peru A dedicated Chat Room for Stratos Renewables Corporation has been created at STOCKWIRE.com to discuss this news event...

Bankrupt U.S. ethanol producer VeraSun gets unsolicited buyout offer (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - America's second largest ethanol producer, which is under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, said it has received an unsolicited buyout offer...

Obama Under Pressure Over Role of Ethanol in Energy Policy - US News and World Report
Environmentalists agree with President-elect Barack Obama on many points, but his policy on ethanol isn't one of them. In the ongoing debate over the future of the country's energy policy, biofuels occupy a unique and precarious position: reviled in ...

N.J. lags in promoting alternative fuels - Asbury Park Press
President-elect Barack Obama wants to usher in an era of cleaner, more fuel-efficient vehicles, but New Jersey lags far behind its neighbors in promoting alternative fuels for drivers. The state doesn't have a single public station that sells E85, an ...

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A coalition of national producer, environmental and taxpayer groups met last week in Washington, D.C., to call for an end to subsidies for corn-based ethanol...

Problems Plague U.S. Flex-Fuel Fleet
Read the full story in the Washington Post. The federal government has invested billions of dollars over the past 16 years, building a fleet of 112,000 alternative-fuel vehicles to serve as a model for a ...

Agricultural, ethanol industries argue for the lowering of food costs for consumers
Representatives of Ohio's agricultural and ethanol industries at a news conference today in Columbus called on big food companies to pass on savings to the consumer...

Ethanol maker Poet in "serious" acquisition talks - Forbes

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Ethanol maker Poet in "serious" acquisition talks
Forbes, NY - 7 hours ago
Now it is slowing demand for motor fuels. In a Reuters interview September 29, Broin said Poet could not just pick up any ethanol plant. .
Poet in buyout talks with other ethanol producers CNNMoney.com
1st signs of consolidation in US ethanol industry eTaiwan News
Summary Box: Poet in buyout talks Chicago Tribune
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