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TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
British Car Auctions (BCA) has released new information examining the price performance of petrol, diesel and alternative fuel vehicles. The results show a rising demand for alternative fuels. According to an analysis of data on volume product from both the fleet and lease sector, volumes of alternative fuelled vehicles and hybrid cars remain small, but they [...]
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Domestic Fuel (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol and the University of Tennessee Research Foundation have announced a partnership to construct an innovative pilot-scale biorefinery and state-of-the-art research and development facility for cellulosic ethanol in Vonore, Tenn. According to DuPont Danisco, the pilot-scale biorefinery will develop the commercial package for the partnership’s leading cellulosic ethanol...
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Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Jamaica Broilers on Wednesday decided to proceed with the expansion of its ethanol business, and will pump US$15 million (J$1.1 billion) of new capital into expanding the plant at Port Esquivel. The project will double capacity from 60 million gallons of wet ethanol ...
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Our view on energy: Ethanol production soars, but its allure plummets Diversion of corn crop to fuel raises food costs, stokes instability abroad. For the past quarter-century, U.S. energy policy has been generally non-existent. To the extent there has been...
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Opposing view: Ethanol offsets oil prices Without biofuels, you’d be paying even more for gasoline. By Bob Dinneen Our reliance on foreign oil is driving up all consumer prices today, including food. Americans know this. They know that soaring oil...
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Domestic Fuel (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (EPIC) has unveiled a new Renewable Fuels Experts Database to help fight public misconceptions about ethanol. EPIC is the first organization to offer such a media resource containing experts from the renewable fuels industry. The database is an online tool that allows journalists to find experts by searching keywords [...]
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Driive (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Rendering of a waste-to-ethanol plant being built in the Midwest by Coskata Inc., a start-up firm financed venture capitalists and by General Motors Corp. Los Angeles County's decision the other day to give BlueFire Ethanol a permit to build a $30 million waste-to-fuel plant in California's high desert raised a question: How much money is being pumped into efforts to produce oil-replacing automotive...
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Domestic Fuel (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Members of a House Agriculture subcommittee are expressing concerns that restrictions under the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) in the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act could be detrimental to the development of second generation ethanol using biomass. The House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research held a hearing to review the RFS implementation and [...]
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Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | yesterday
In an article titled “Uprising Against the Ethanol Mandate”, the New York Times profiled the fight led by Texas Governor Rick Perry to reduce the ethanol mandate to 4.5 billion gallons in 2009. Governor Perry told the Times that the grain used for fuel would be better used as livestock feed. Uprising against the ethanol [...]
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Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist: “Corn-based ethanol’s supporters are whining, again. They want to keep governmental mandates to use the fuel. Too bad.” Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman and Secretary of Agriculture Ed Shaefer in a letter to Senator Bingaman of New Mexico: “During the first 4 months of 2008, the all [...]
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Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | yesterday
In Australia, researchers at the University of Tasmania have constructed a prototype, plug-in hybrid ethanol-electric vehicle. The prototype used a Toyota Corolla body, and follow up from a successful development of a plug-in hybrid motor scooter last year. The prototype placed electric engines in each of the car’s four wheels, and would generate power during [...]
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Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | yesterday
In California, the Los Angeles County Planning Commission gave the go-ahead to the proposed $30 million BlueFire Ethanol plant in Lancaster. The waste to ethanol project, using the Arkenol process, will commence construction this fall if no appeals are filed to the Planning Commission ruling by August. The plant will use yard and paper wastes, [...]
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Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | yesterday
In Iowa, Amaizing Energy will install a SmaartOil corn oil extraction system at its 55 Mgy corn ethanol plant in Denison. The system, made by Primafuel, will provide a third income stream for the plant in the sale of corn oil to the biodiesel and food markets, in addition to ethanol and distiller’s grains sales. [...]
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Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | yesterday
In India, Shree Renuka Sugars will invest $6 million to acquire two biofuels-related companies in Maharashta. The company will acquire a sugar mill with 1250 tonnes in capacity and a 3 Mgy ethanol plant, as well as acquiring Godavari Biofuel, a company which holds a license to produce ethanol and will also contribute 5 acres [...]
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
A proposal to build the nation's first commercial ethanol production plant using yard trimmings, paper, wheat straws and other green wastes was approved Wednesday by Los Angeles County officials. Irvine-based BlueFire Ethanol plans to build a $30 million facility north of Los Angeles.
