Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 04/30/2009

Will California Shuck Corn Ethanol? - Investors Business Daily
Energy Policy: California regulators are ready to conclude that corn ethanol cannot help the state fight global warming. It seems they've discovered putting food in our cars would destroy the earth in order to save it. California regulators have ...

AFBF: Ethanol blend to 15 percent
The federal government should increase the ethanol blend level up to 15 percent, which will promote environmental protection, help create jobs and reduce dependence on foreign oil, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation...

Hydrogen Engine Center Canada Announces Involvement in World's Biggest Hydrogen Project
Hydrogen Engine Center, Inc. announced today that it will be involved in an $11 million hydrogen energy technology demonstration project at Montreal's Pierre Elliot Trudeau International Airport...

Stop the EPA Push for 15-Percent Ethanol Fuel - ST-Owners.com Forums
While fuel tanks, hoses and seals on most new boats are designed to withstand today's 10 percent ethanol fuels, dealers report that fiberglass fuel tanks, fuel hoses and seals on older boats are already being damaged by the ethanol ...

Jon Kraushar - the First 100 Days: Obama Deserves a Failing Grade
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has given the Obama administration a "B-plus" for its first 100 days and has graded the news media a "strong A;" but both should be flunked for failing to admit that Barack Obama is rationing where he shouldn't and not rationing where he should...

Biomass conference draws 1,000 to Expo Center
A conference on biomass at the Portland Expo Center drew more than 1,000 attendees from 25 countries today...

Ken Gansmann: Ethanol in fuel is a rip-off (Summit Daily News)
There are some well-known but little-published facts about the fuels we use to move our vehicles...

E85 Ethanol Comes to Main Street - 1457 Cities selling E85 .
As long as ethanol production and usage increases the demand for oil will decrease keeping gasoline as well as ethanol fuels competitively priced for the consumer. More information: www.e85prices.com About E85Prices E85Prices.com is the ...

Propel Fuels Partners with Enterprise on Industry-leading Green Program (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SACRAMENTO, Calif.----Propel Fuels, a leading retailer of clean, renewable fuels, announced today a partnership with Enterprise Rent-A-Car, to fuel Enterprise's rental cars in the Sacramento area with renewable E85 Flex Fuel...

California adopts low-carbon fuel rule - ONE News
California adopted a first-ever rule to slash carbon emissions in automotive fuels, and spur the market for cleaner gasoline alternatives, after a last-ditch appeal to ethanol advocates who fought the plan. The low-carbon fuel standard approved by ...

Hoover mayor considering run for governor
Hoover Mayor Tony Petelos is considering a 2010 run for the state house in Montgomery...

Propel Fuels Partners with Enterprise on Industry-leading Green Program (The Auto Channel)
SACRAMENTO, Calif.--Propel Fuels, a leading retailer of clean, renewable fuels, announced today a partnership with Enterprise Rent-A-Car, to fuel Enterprises rental cars in the Sacramento area with renewable E85 Flex Fuel. This first-of-its-kind program in the area helps educate Enterprise customers on how to EURœfuel green and save greenEUR with Propel E85 (85 percent ethanol and 15 percent ...

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 ...

As Calif. aims at carbon, Canada sees itself in bull's-eye (New York Times)
Canadian oil exporters fear that a low-carbon fuel standard adopted by California last week threatens to upset a thriving Nor...

Calif. approves nation's first low-carbon fuel rule; oil and ethanol . - Newsday
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) EUR” California air regulators on Thursday adopted a first-in-the-nation mandate requiring low-carbon fuels, part of the state's wider effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The California Air Resources Board voted 9-1 to ...

John Lott's Website: EPA wants to mandate even higher Ethanol Mix
Auto makers offer so-called flex-fuel vehicles designed to accept up to 85% ethanol fuels. But many current and older model cars aren't designed for ethanol concentrations above 10%. Alan Adler, a spokesman for General Motors Corp., ...

KQA kids get green lesson
Milliken-based Knowledge Quest Academy elementary students got outside for a day of learning and fun April 21...

SBA Study Finds Sole Proprietorships Pay Lowest Tax Rate of Small Businesses
When starting up a new business, entrepreneurs need to decide what legal form the company will take and how it will report for tax purposes...

Guest column: Renewable fuels a bright spot for jobs
Fort Dodge Senior High School recently honored 109 seniors for their achievements in math and science...

Following the (battery) pack
Fortune magazine is no one's idea of a tree-hugger's handbook. But the April 27 issue features a green cover and a front-page photo of billionaire Warren Buffett in front of a BYD E6, an electric car from China in which Buffett is investing...

In the Wake: Discover Boating
What could be more fun than rafting-up on the river under a full moon? That's what Port St...

California carbon laws to hurt ethanol (Queensland Country Life)
California has become the first state in the US to mandate carbon-based reductions in transportation fuels, which will have big impacts for the future of biofuels...

California to limit greenhouse gas emissions of vehicle fuels - Los Angeles Times
UC Davis student Sarah Raridon, 20, pickets as the state air regulators considered new low-carbon fuel rules. The Air Resources Board adopts a landmark regulation expected to slash gasoline consumption by 25% and encourage development of low-carbon ...

Provinces on board with ethanol commitments
REGINA a ' Ottawaa TMs target of five per cent biofuels content in gas and diesel by 2010 has been given the OK by the provinces and territories...

FedEx to boost biofuel use to cut costs, emissions
FedEx Corp. will attempt to get 30 percent of its fuel from petroleum alternatives by 2030 to slash the shipping giant's air-transportation costs and greenhouse gas emissions, the company's chairman, president and CEO said today...

Ethanol 'disaster' risk for boats
In Victoria, the Boating Industry Association's general manager, Robert Coco, last month warned boat owners "not to use ethanol fuels in the boats to avoid potentially costly damage to engines and fuel systems". ...

California adopts landmark low-carbon fuel rule - Reuters UK
SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 23 (Reuters) - California on Thursday adopted a first-ever rule to slash carbon emissions in automotive fuels, after a last-ditch appeal to ethanol advocates who fought the plan. The low-carbon fuel standard approved by the ...

From Smokestacks to Your Tank (New York Times)
One audacious idea about what to do about CO2 emissions: recycle the carbon by turning it into liquid hydrocarbon fuels...

Nordic cleantech companies aim for world stage
Not familiar with the state of clean technology innovation in Scandinavia? Fifty handpicked leading companies were introduced today to investors at Cleantech Forum XXII in Copenhagen...

California seeks ethanol support for fuel standard - Reuters UK
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California regulators preparing on Thursday to adopt landmark rules curbing carbon emissions from transport fuels made an eleventh-hour bid to woo critics who call the measures unfair to corn-based ethanol. Transport alone ...

United States: A $100-million bet on making fuel from trash
There, in the high desert of the Antelope Valley, Klann's company, BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, plans to build a $100-million plant to convert raw trash into an alcohol-based fuel that will help power the cars and trucks of the future. ...

From Smokestacks to Your Tank (New York Times)
One audacious idea about what to do about CO2 emissions: recycle the carbon by turning it into liquid hydrocarbon fuels...

Revolutionary electric-propulsion car coming from GM
General Motors says work on an electric car capable of driving 500 miles on a single U.S. gallon of gasoline is so advanced, the car could be on sale by 2010...

Thomas Elias: California leads the world in fighting pollution
Anyone who visits Athens, Greece, or Haifa, Israel, or Barcelona, Spain, or Tokyo, Japan, this year will surely notice that visibility is far greater and the air far cleaner than it was five to 10 years ago...

Calif. Expected To Adopt Low-carbon Fuel Rules - CBS News
(AP) California air regulators are considering first-in-the nation rules to require low-carbon fuels as part of the state's wider effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The California Air Resources Board on Thursday is expected to adopt standards ...

Knox landfill secures ethanol contract
The Knox County Landfill has secured a contract with an ethanol company that should generate revenue of about $200,000 a year...

Farm Bureau Supports Raising Blend Wall
The American Farm Bureau Federation says the federal government should increase the ethanol blend level to 15 percent, which will promote environmental protection, help create jobs and reduce dependence on foreign oil...

Govt turns attention to long-term stimulus
Thailand's 1.56-trillion-baht infrastructure megaproject programme will be the first step towards a broad economic restructuring that paves the way for long-term sustainable growth, Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij says...

Calif. expected to adopt nation's first low-carbon fuel rules; oil . - Minneapolis Star Tribune
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California air regulators on Thursday were considering first-in-the-nation rules requiring low-carbon fuels, part of the state's wider effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The standards expected to be adopted by the ...

California takes lead in turning trash into fuel - Herald Tribune
ANAHEIM, Calif. Arnold Klann has a green dream. It began 16 years ago in a sprawling laboratory in Anaheim. This year, he hopes, it will culminate at a Lancaster garbage dump north of Los Angeles. There, in the high desert of the Antelope Valley ...

Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo: Biofuel from Corn Ethanol Is Not .
So called "next generation" advanced cellulosic ethanol fuels from non-food plants and plant parts, including forest biomass, will not resolve these problems. All industrially produced biofuel crops from biomass, edible or not, ...

Ken Gansmann: Ethanol in fuel is a rip-off
There are some well-known but little-published facts about the fuels we use to move our vehicles...

Ethanol deal could net Knox County $200,000 (The Galesburg Register-Mail)
The Knox County Landfill is on the verge of securing a contract with an ethanol company that should generate revenue of about $200,000 a year...

BlueFire Ethanol Fuels teams up with Applied Power Concepts to .
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, an ethanol transportation fuel company, has struck a technology development services agreement with Dr William Farone and his company Applied Power Concepts...

Propel Fuel Inks E85 Supply Deal with Enterprise (Auto Rental News)
Propel Fuels will fuel up Enterprise Rent-A-Car's flexible-fuel vehicle (FFV) fleet in Sacramento, Calif., with E85, a blend of roughly 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline...

April 15, 2009 Mary D. Nichols Chairwoman California Air Resources .
Sincerely,. Abengoa Bioenergy. BioEnergy International, LLC. BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. California Ethanol & Power, LLC. Ceres, Inc. Coskata. Iogen Corporation. Novozymes. Pacific Ethanol. Qteros, Inc. Verenium. ZeaChem Inc...

EPA considers higher ethanol mix
Earlier this year Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. recalled 214500 Lexus vehicles sold in the U.S. that were vulnerable to corrosion problems in their fuel-delivery pipes when some ethanol fuels were used. Pushing against the auto industry's ...

Calif. adopts nation's first low-carbon fuel rule - KGO
SACRAMENTO, CA (KGO) -- The California Air Resources Board adopted new standards Thursday, requiring low carbon fuels. The proposal could spell doom for the ethanol industry, since the new clean fuel standards take into account all the green house ...

Letters for April 29, 2009
Former Education Secretary Margaret Spellings stated those who believe public education in America is sound "are kidding themselves." Is Ms...

AFBF Calls for Increasing Ethanol Blend up to 15 Percent (American Farm Bureau)
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 29, 2009 EUR The federal government should increase the ethanol blend level up to 15 percent, which will promote environmental protection, help create jobs and reduce dependence on foreign oil, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation...

Guest Appearance: Oh, those Washington jokers: Meddling produces more unintended consequences (Fernley Leader)
To promote the development of alternative fuels, which unfortunately cost a pantload, Congress, in 2007, expanded the tax credit for using non-fossil fuels, offering firms 50 cents a gallon to blend renewable fuels such as ethanol with traditional fossil fuels like diesel...

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