Ethanol Technology | Ethanol Fuels News for 11/23/2008



N.J. lags in promoting alternative fuels for drivers
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 push is on for cellulosic ethanol - The Wichita Eagle

The push is on for cellulosic ethanol
The Wichita Eagle, KS - 20 hours ago
The Georgia plant, which is being built by Colorado-based Range Fuels, is the only one to have started construction. Abengoa received $76 million to build .
Corn crop down, soybeans increase High Plains Journal
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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fuel from food? The feast is over
EDITOR'S NOTE _ In a time of sky-high food prices, a hungrier world may have to curb its appetite for fuel made from corn...

The Death of Biofuels
This AP story claims that corn-based ethanol is dead and that Mexico's tortilla crisis in 2006 killed it ...

Stepping on the ethanol may help reduce emissions - Times Union
Q: Several months ago, I noticed a difference in the smell of gasoline at a Mobil station in Clifton Park. I also noticed a new sticker on the pump, which said the gas contained 10 percent ethanol. A manager told me that a new state law mandated the ...

N.J. lags in promoting alternative fuels (Asbury Park Press)
The first part of a two-part series on alternative-fuel vehicles . 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...

Brazil's once booming ethanol sector hits brakes (AP via Yahoo! News)
Brazil's biofuel industry just months ago was being flooded with billions in new investments for vast new sugarcane plantations and gleaming distilleries that churn out the cheapest ethanol on earth...

Debating Pros, Cons of Ethanol - istockAnalyst.com (press release)

Debating Pros, Cons of Ethanol
istockAnalyst.com (press release), OR - 18 hours ago
Those are the competing views of Bob Dinneen, president and chief executive officer of the Renewable Fuels Association, an industry group, and Kenneth P. .
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Federal green-fuel fleet actually full of gas guzzlers
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...

Does Ethanol Help or Hurt? (New York Times)
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Problems Plague U.S. Flex-Fuel Fleet - Washington Post
Tonya Jackson, a Postal Service worker, fills up her flex-fuel vehicle at the Brentwood facility in Washington. (By Dayna Smith For The Washington Post) But the costly effort to put more workers into vehicles powered by ethanol and other fuel ...

Large Illinois Ethanol Maker Scraps One Plant, Delays Construction Of . - All Headline News
Aurora, NE (AHN) - A major U.S. ethanol producer has halted construction of a new bio-fuels refinery in Nebraska and slowed the construction of another facility in Indiana. Aventine Renewable Energy's Indiana plant had been scheduled to open early ...

Problems Plague Flex-Fuel Fleet - Washington Post

Problems Plague Flex-Fuel Fleet
Washington Post, United States - Nov 22, 2008
. 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 .
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BRA applications being accepted
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said that applications are being accepted for loan guarantees under the Biorefinery Assistance Program , authorized by the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, . The ...

Top Ethanol Lobbyist Says Tough Times Ahead For Industry - All Headline News
Washington, DC (AHN) - More ethanol companies may soon declare bankruptcy, and the industry will likely experience increased consolidation, the head of an ethanol trade group told a Washington, D.C. audience this week. Bob Dineen, the president of ...

When agriculture and technology meet - Bureau County Republican
Visitors to the grand opening of the Patriot Renewable Fuels ethanol plant near Annawan last week had the opportunity to tour the Monsanto Mobile Technology Unit. In addition to a film and displays, the unit included a table-sized model of the entire ...

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

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...

Fuel from food? The feast is over (AP via Yahoo! News)
In future years we may look back at the Great Mexican Tortilla Crisis of 2006 as the time when ethanol lost its vroom...

Gas prices continue to fall
Gasoline prices continued to sink, falling for the 67th day in a row, according to a national survey of gas station credit card swipes released Sunday...

Scarcity of ethanol stations plagues federal alternative-fuel fleet
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...

Honda producing wetlands, soybeans as well as cars
Honda Motor Co. is constructing wetlands to cleanse water that flows through its property...

BioFuels Journal - News & Information for the Ethanol and .
. 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, ICrystal Inc, ...

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...

Fuel from food? The feast is over (AP via Yahoo! News)
In future years we may look back at the Great Mexican Tortilla Crisis of 2006 as the time when ethanol lost its vroom...

Gas prices continue to fall
Gasoline prices continued to sink, falling for the 67th day in a row, according to a national survey of gas station credit card swipes released Sunday...

Scarcity of ethanol stations plagues federal alternative-fuel fleet
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...

Honda producing wetlands, soybeans as well as cars
Honda Motor Co. is constructing wetlands to cleanse water that flows through its property...

BioFuels Journal - News & Information for the Ethanol and .
. 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, ICrystal Inc, ...

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 ...

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. ...

Energy Issues To Get Boosts From Obama
As president, Barack Obama will introduce policies to broadly alter the US energy landscape...

Biodiesel Maker Hits The Brakes
A progress report lists the final task, "Use biodiesel and ethanol fuels when locally available," as "ongoing." Higdon says the state needs to make good on its promise to use biodiesel if Florida's producers are to survive. ...

With corn prices down, criticism of ethanol industry also declines
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 ...

Brazilian ethanol to sponsor Indy races (The Des Moines Register)
The Indy Racing League has taken on a Brazilian ethanol producer as its major fuel sponsor, but the IRL says that doesnt mean that Brazilian sugar cane ethanol will be in the tanks of Indy cars at the Indianapolis 500 or Iowa Corn 250 races next season...

The push is on for cellulosic ethanol (The Wichita Eagle)
FEDERAL MANDATES, FINANCIAL SUPPORT Long before cellulosic ethanol became a hot biofuel topic, Doug Rivers was deep into researching the product. From the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, Rivers worked for Gulf Oil for three years and the University of Arkansas for five years researching ways to make it economically feasible to produce cellulosic ethanol on a commercial scale. "We were ...

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?..

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 ...

N.J. lags in promoting alternative fuels
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...

U.S. and Brazil collaborate on biofuel development
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has signed an agreement with Petroleo Brasilerio S.A. that could accelerate the development and international commercialization of biofuels...

Starke County town misses ethanol boom
The air smells clean and sweet off the sprawling corn and spearmint fields, but for this unincorporated town of 156, it is the smell of failure: the failure to reap the rewards of the ethanol boom...

Minnesota Farm Bureau president defends ethanol production - Bemidji Pioneer

Minnesota Farm Bureau president defends ethanol production
Bemidji Pioneer, MN - 16 hours ago
EURœWe have seen renewable fuels become the scapegoat for a whole variety of problems,EUR he said. Opponents of corn-based ethanol maintain that diverting corn .
Senators say any new economic plan must include rural America Bemidji Pioneer
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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 ...

Gas prices continue to fall - CNNMoney.com

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Gas prices continue to fall
CNNMoney.com - 14 hours ago
Ethanol: Meanwhile the price of E85, an 85% ethanol blend made primarily corn, has also fallen to $1.673 a gallon from $1.681, according to AAA. .
Gas Prices Spiral Down to Near $2 Wall Street Journal
Good morning, America! Enjoy the temporary slump in gas prices . Delta County Independent
Rep. Waxman new head of House Energy and Commerce Committee MarketWatch
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IndyCar Signs Ethanol Deal With Brazil Company - Inside Indiana Business
The Indianapolis-based Indy Car Series has announced a partnership with APEX-Brasil to become the North American open-wheel circuit's official ethanol supplier. The deal includes cooperation from the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA ...

Obama Under Pressure Over Role of Ethanol in Energy Policy (US News & World Report)
Environmental groups are unhappy with his support of corn-based ethanol during the campaign...

Fuel from food? The feast is over
In future years we may look back at the Great Mexican Tortilla Crisis of 2006 as the time when ethanol lost its vroom...

BlueFire Ethanol to Present at the Cellulosic Ethanol Summit - MarketWatch

BlueFire Ethanol to Present at the Cellulosic Ethanol Summit
MarketWatch - Nov 13, 2008
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. was established to deploy a commercially ready, patented, and proven Concentrated Acid Hydrolysis Technology Process for the .
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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 ...

Man Aims To Wean World Off Petroleum
In Fred Robinson's auto repair shop near Stagecoach, items that can run on alternative fuels abound...

Fuel from food? The feast is over - The Associated Press

Fuel from food? The feast is over
The Associated Press - 10 hours ago
. mix in transport fuels by 2020, and the US set a production target of 36 billion gallons of ethanol by 2022 EUR” compared with 6.5 billion last year, .
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Minnesota Farm Bureau president defends ethanol production
Minnesota farmers and ranchers face challenges but also opportunities, says the head of the state's largest farm organization...

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 ...

Sudan Wants Brazil's Flex-Fuel Cars and Its Ethanol Know-How - Brazzil Magazine

Brazzil Magazine

Sudan Wants Brazil's Flex-Fuel Cars and Its Ethanol Know-How
Brazzil Magazine, Los Angeles - 6 hours ago
"Brazil is interested in spreading the cultivation of sugarcane for production of ethanol as we need to replace the more polluting fossil fuels," said the .
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Bumbling, Fiddling, Meddling Government
Putting government in charge of anything is not only risky, ita s costly and absolutely, positively stupid...

Butanol Could be a Much Better Gas Replacement Than Ethanol : Gas 2.0
Also, from a performance point of view, the ethanol fuels have higher octane than gasoline, so significantly smaller engines can be made to run high turbo boost, delivering the sort of performance fat Americans (guilty! ...

Missing the Ethanol Boom (AG Weekly)
SAN PIERRE, Ind. - The air smells clean and sweet off the sprawling corn and spearmint fields, but for this unincorporated town of 156, it is the smell of failure: the failure to reap the rewards of the ethanol boom...

Pit Stop: Ethanol Battles Roar Into the Indy 500 - Wall Street Journal Blogs

Wall Street Journal Blogs

Pit Stop: Ethanol Battles Roar Into the Indy 500
Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY - Nov 21, 2008
Next May, the iconic Indy 500 will be fueled by Brazilian ethanol, which has sparked a heated response from US Renewable Fuels Association boss Bob Dinneen: .
RFA: IndyCar Needs to Rethink Brazilian Ethanol Decision AgWeb
Brazilian ethanol to sponsor Indy races DesMoinesRegister.com
Indy Chooses Brazilian Ethanol Domestic Fuel
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Biodiesel Maker Hits The Brakes - Tampa Tribune

Biodiesel Maker Hits The Brakes
Tampa Tribune, FL - 22 hours ago
A progress report lists the final task, "Use biodiesel and ethanol fuels when locally available," as "ongoing." Higdon says the state needs to make good on .
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Minnesota Farm Bureau tackles food vs. fuel issue
" Minnesota farmers and ranchers face challenges but also opportunities, says the head of the state's largest farm organization...

Sorghum newsletter
The new United Sorghum Checkoff Program Board of Directors held its first meeting this week at the USDA headquarters in Washington , D.C. The Board discussed important issues such as a formal name for the ...

Researchers push ethanol's close cousin
Ethanol might reign as the king of biofuels, but several companies are betting that a close cousin could overcome some of its shortcomings...

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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