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What will gas be selling at by Memorial Day? Anybody’s guess is as good as anybody else’s, but DTN’s Man on the Floor of the CBOT and CME Gary Wilhelmi says the U.S. needs to keep looking for the ultimate replacement for imported energy.
NBB Offers First Biodiesel Fuel Card for Truckers, [...]
Today in Biofuels: Oil cos accused of rigging US markets; 20 percent export duty on crude palm oil; McCain’s record
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Top Story:The Consumer Federation of America accused the US oil industry of conspiring to create tight markets for oil, with resulting increases in prices. The report said that widespread gasoline availability, falling demand and increasing use of ethanol have not had a price impact because of oil company manipulation of refinery [...]
NBB Offers First Biodiesel Fuel Card for Truckers, Fleets
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The National Biodiesel Foundation announced in a news release that it has begun offering a biodiesel fuel card that highlights a network of truck stops that carry biodiesel. Known as the BioTrucker Fuel Card, truckers and fleets pay cash price on all fuel and no fuel transaction fee for biodiesel at [...]
Today in Biofuels: Shell ventures into biogasoline; US corn exports up 6 percent in ‘07 in food vs. fuel surprise; India condemns Western ethanol policies, doubles ethanol requirement
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Top Story:In the Netherlands, Royal Dutch Shell and Virent Energy Systems announced a 5-year partnership to make biogasoline from a catalytic process from biomass. The Virent Bioforming process uses undisclosed catalysts to convert plant-based sugars into gasoline-resembling hydrocarbons, instead of fermenting into ethanol The process uses non-food feedstocks. Shell did not [...]
Distributor to Open 1,000 E85 Retail Sites on East Coast
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Alternative Fuel Distributors, Inc. said in a news release that it plans to construct and operate 1,000 convenience stores providing only E85 and other alternative automotive fuels on the East Coast over the next three years.
Nova Biosource Completes Funding for Ill. Biodiesel Plant
PetroSun Algae Farm to Begin Operations April 1
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Today in Biofuels: GM’s Lutz says Americans will not sacrifice to go green; algae venture in major expansion; flap over corn ethanol carbon footprint may derail incentive schemes
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Top Story:General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said that only “a very narrow portion of the population will make a financial sacrifice to be green. I don’t think we can count on the majority of the American public to make a financial sacrifice….even as gasoline goes to $4 a gallon, you’re [...]
Focus on Fuels 3-24-08
Submitted by DTN Ethanol Blog
A strange thing happened to crude oil last week — it fell like a lead pigeon. Overall consumption of oil and its products fell by 3.2 percent in the last month and gas demand contracted by 1 percent. However, gas prices are up about 70 cents from a year ago at [...]
Today in Biofuels: USDA, DOE enter biocrude race with $944,000 grant; D1 Oils founder may bid for company; Africa lacks infrastructure for biofuels
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Top Story:In Iowa, the USDA and Department of Energy announced a $944,000 grant to support a project at Iowa State using fast pyrolysis, gasification and nanotechnology based catalyzation to produce ethanol. Project director Victor Lin, a professor of chemistry and director of the Center for Catalysis, told Science News said that [...]
API Launches Renewable Fuels Credits Data Clearinghouse
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The API said in a news release that it has launched an internet-based data clearinghouse known as the API Credit Exchange or ACE to help companies buy and sell renewable fuels credits.
Renewable Energy Group Withdrawing Plans for IPO
CFTC Seeks Comments on OTC Ethanol Futures ClearingChange
CleanTech to Demonstrate Ethanol Conversion Technology
Marquis’ Illinois [...]
Today in Biofuels: first commercial algae farm for biofuels in US; sizzling Khosla, Branson articles; 30 Hungarian ethanol projects dropped
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Top Story:In Texas, PetroSun will open the first US commercial-scale algae farm for biofuels near South Padre Island. The 1,831 acre site includes 157 separate ponds, and the company said that extraction of algae from water and oil from algae were studied and solved at the company’s pilot farm in Opelika, [...]
$3 billion US ethanol subsidy produced $6 billion reduction in farm subsidies: researcher
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In Florida, an editorial in the Tampa Tribune quoted findings Bruce Dale, professor of biobased technologies at Michigan State University, that the US ethanol subsidy cost $3 billion last year, but resulted in a $6 billion reduction in farmer subsidies, and a $15 billion reduction in foreign oil imports.
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Focus on Fuels 3-17-08
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High energy and food prices, a weak dollar and mortgage problems are weighing on average U.S. citizens, according to DTN’s Man on the Floor of the CBOT and CME Gary Wilhelmi.
Raven Biofuels Merges with Pure Energy
Agreement Expands Cellulosic Ethanol
NC to Put Fuel Standards for Ethanol Blending on Books
Algae-to-Biofuel Farm to Open [...]
Today in Biofuels: Vinod Khosla TKOs American Petroleum Institute in “Food Fight”; EU Biofuels Road Map; US Fed says labor, energy costs driving food prices; ethanol tariff update
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Top Story:In New York, Vinod Khosla and Big Oil conducted a “food fight” at the Wall Street Journal’s ECO:nomics conference, where Khosla accused the American Petroleum Institute for linking food price increases to ethanol production, saying ““The API started issuing press releases about food. Suddenly they got interested in the welfare [...]
Today in Biofuels: Continental Airlines to become first US carrier to test biofuels; Coskata raises $19.5 million; EU reconsidering biofuels targets as food-vs-fuel concerns bite
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Top Story:Continental Airlines will become the first US airliner to conduct a biofuels test flight. The company announced that, in partnership with GE and Boeing, it would schedule a test biofuels flight in 2008. The companies said that the test would include a different set of feedstocks than those tested in [...]
Today in Biofuels: Shouting grows for release of 7 million acres from US Conservation program to ease grain price, shortage concerns; Russia to develop 30 ethanol plants
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Top Story:The American Bakers Association joined a chorus of organizations calling for release of seven million acres of land from the US Conservation Reserve Program, which it said could be accomplished “without sacrificing environmental goals.” House Agriculture Chairman Colin Peterson floated the proposal, favored by ethanol producers as well as livestock [...]
Missouri Senate Passes Law Requiring 5% Biodiesel Blend
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The Missouri Senate has passed a bill that would require all diesel fuel sold in the state contain a 5 percent biodiesel blend.
Dallas Fort Worth Terminal Begins Ethanol Operations
Focus on Fuels 3-10-08
Former Arizona Senate President Bennett to be GeoBio CEO
GreenHunter Inks Tank Storage Deals at Houston Facility
Tenaska BioFuels Acquires Omaha’s Edible [...]
Today in Biofuels: Big Oil ramps up development of bio-crude; new one-step cellulosic ethanol enzyme; Clintons linked to “degrading” ethanol operation in Brazil
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Top Story:The Wall Street Journal has profiled the sharply increased tempo of activities of Bio Oil in the research and production of bio-oil, or bio-crude. The current energy-transportation system “has been a hundred years and billions of dollars in the making,” Rick Zalesky, vice president for biofuels and hydrogen at Chevron’s [...]
Crude oil prices just keep rising and according to DTN’s Man on the Floor of the CBOT and CME Gary Wilhelmi, politically unrest around the world doesn’t help the situation.
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Former Arizona Senate President Bennett to be GeoBio CEO
GreenHunter Inks Tank Storage Deals at Houston Facility
Tenaska BioFuels Acquires Omaha’s Edible Oil Marketing
Minnesota Study Indicates Seamless Move from E10 to E20
Enterprise to Use VE85 for Flex-Fuel Rental Cars in S.D.
USDA, Energy Dept. to Invest $18.4M in Biomass Projects
EIA Chief: US Won’t Meet [...]
Today in Biofuels: Venezuela initiates fuel from food ethanol drive; switchgrass ethanol for $0.44 per gallon; famine in 36 countries as food crisis spreads
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Top Story:In Venezuela, the state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela announced that it will commence making sugarcane and cassava into ethanol, reversing the previous Chavez government policy opposing the conversion of staple foodstocks into ethanol. Petroleos said it will construct four plants and will commence production in the first quarter of [...]
Former Arizona Senate President Bennett to be GeoBio CEO
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GeoBio Energy, Inc. announced in a news release the appointment of Ken Bennett, a former Arizona State Senate President, as chief executive officer of the company. Bennett is currently the CEO of GeoAlgae, Inc., which GeoBio intends to acquire this month.
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GreenHunter Inks Tank Storage Deals at Houston Facility
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GreenHunter BioFuels, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of GreenHunter Energy, Inc., said in a news release that it has entered into two separate transactions with undisclosed entities that include loading, unloading, bulk storage, throughput management, vessel scheduling and logistical management for several bulk liquid products at the company’s GreenHunter Renewable Fuels Campus [...]
Tenaska BioFuels Acquires Omaha’s Edible Oil Marketing
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Omaha, Neb.-based Tenaska BioFuels, LLC said in a news release that it has acquired the business of Edible Oil Marketing, LLC, a biodiesel and vegetable oil marketing and trading company also headquartered in Omaha.
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Minnesota Study Indicates Seamless Love From E10 to E20
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A study released by the State of Minnesota shows increasing the amount of ethanol blended into gasoline from 10 percent to 20 percent does not present problems for current vehicles or fuel dispensing equipment. The year-long research effort determined that going from E10 to an E20 blend provided similar power and [...]
Today in Biofuels: Bush says rising corn prices should prompt more R&D, not retreat from biofuels; DARPA says ahead of schedule on biomas jet fuel
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Top Story:Speaking at the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC), President George W. Bush said that the United States needed to “get off oil” and backed cellulosic ethanol as the best path to reducing energy dependence in the face of rising oil prices. The President acknowledged the effect of rising corn [...]
Enterprise to Use VE85 for Flex-Fuel Rental Cars in S.D.
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Enterprise Rent-A-Car and ethanol producer VeraSun Energy Corp. announced in a news release the opening of the first VE85-flexible-fuel rental branch location in South Dakota. Enterprise will commit to fueling its Sioux Falls flexible-fuel vehicles with VeraSun’s branded VE85—a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. Approximately 30 percent [...]
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