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Cellulosic Biofuel Could Revive Farmlands Conservation Program

by Tiffany Stecker (ClimateWire/Scientific American)  A study looks into giving farmers permission to harvest cellulosic feedstocks on land set aside for wetlands and wildlife conservation Growing cellulosic feedstocks on federally subsidized conservation land could balance the biofuels emissions equation to be completely carbon-neutral,

August 11, 2011 Read Full Article

U.S. DOE Releases Billion-Ton Study Follow Up Report

by Lisa Gibson (Biomass Power and Thermal)  A follow-up report to the U.S. DOE’s 2005 “Biomass as Feedstock for a Bioenergy and Bioproducts Industry: The Technical Feasibility of a Billion-Ton Annual Supply,” commonly referred to as the Billion-Ton Study, has

August 10, 2011 Read Full Article

More Ethanol, Fewer Inputs, Increasing Benefits: More Corn on Fewer Acres, Less Water

by Geoff Cooper (Renewable Fuels Association)  Over the past 30 years, and in particular in the past decade, ethanol production has quietly become increasingly efficient.  From improvements in corn production to greater efficiencies at ethanol biorefineries, America’s leading renewable fuel

August 10, 2011 Read Full Article

EU Approval of Certification Standards for Biofuels Brings Transparency and Supports Planning by Sugar-Energy Industry

(UNICA)  The European Commission’s approval of certification schemes for biofuels, announced on July 19th, is an important step to add transparency to the issue and help Member States meet reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions. The measure will also benefit

August 10, 2011 Read Full Article

A&M Study Finds RFS Not Lowering Cattle Profits

(Southeast Farm Press/National Corn Growers Association)  The study, which utilized Texas A&M University’s Agricultural & Food Policy Center’s premier farm-level modeling system and data from the University of Missouri’s Food & Agricultural Policy Research Institute, determined that net cash farm

August 10, 2011 Read Full Article

3 Things You Need to Know about Biofuels

by Maggie Koerth-Baker (BoingBoing)  ...In a nutshell, that’s why liquid fuel is so valuable. So far, it’s the clear winner when we need energy for transportation—especially air transportation and heavy, long-distance shipping—because it allows you to stuff a lot of

August 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Bharat Petroleum, SG Biofuels Ink Deal for Massive Jatropha 2.0 Deployment in India

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In India, SG Biofuels and Bharat Renewable Energy, a unit of India’s second largest oil company, Bharat Petroleum, signed a landmark commercial agreement  to develop and deploy elite hybrids of Jatropha across a total 86,000

August 10, 2011 Read Full Article

European Biodiesel Board Slams EU Thinking on Biofuel Land Use Impacts

(Argus Media)  Europe's biodiesel producers have commissioned an independent review of a policy document on biodiesel's indirect effects on land use change, which the European Biodiesel Board (EBB) maintains has skewed the European Commission's thinking on the subject to the

August 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Have We Seen the End of Jatropha as a Potential Biofuel?

by Brian Westenhaus (OilPrice.com)  According to Promode Kant from the Institute of Green Economy in India and Shuirong Wu of the Chinese Academy of Forestry some 12.8 million ha (49,421 square miles) are expected to be planted with jatropha by

August 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Answers to Your Biofuels, Biopower and Biomaterials Questions

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  At the Biomass 2011 conference in Washington, a lively debate session provided a bumper crop of questions from the audience – too many to answer at the time. At the same time, it offers us

August 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Seeking Common Ground

by Julia Olmstead (Ethanol Producer Magazine) Traveling together to Brazil, Americans representing a range of perspectives on ethanol and environmentalism attempt to forge a shared path toward ethanol sustainability ...The divisiveness of the indirect land use change (ILUC) debate—the theory that

August 09, 2011 Read Full Article

Technique Measures Ethanol Isotopes from Vehicle, Plant Emissions

by Kris Bevill (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  Researchers at the University of Miami Rosentiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science recently developed a technique to measure ethanol isotopes and discovered that the ethanol found in urban air and vehicle exhaust has

August 09, 2011 Read Full Article

Big Green Bus Rolls on French-Fry Fumes to Teach Sustainability

by Marianne Brown (Dallas Morning News)  ...Thirteen students from Dartmouth College rolled into Dallas on Monday in their environmental classroom on wheels: a converted Greyhound bus that runs on biodiesel and vegetable oil. The cooking oil, donated from restaurants, must be filtered

August 03, 2011 Read Full Article

Malaysia Plans Green Palm Oil Certification Scheme- Paper

by Niluksi Koswanage   (Reuters Africa)  Malaysia, the word's No.2 palm oil producer, will come up with a certification scheme to ensure the tropical oil is grown without clearing forests and destroying wildlife, a newspaper reported on Monday. The Business Times quoted

August 03, 2011 Read Full Article

Pongamia Shines in New Asian Development Bank Study of Biofuel Production and Use

by Joelle Brink (Biofuels Digest Asia)  In the Philippines, a new study by that Asian Development Bank finds that “Pongamia provides better economic returns [than other Indian feedstocks]. Even under a 15% social discount rate Pongamia provides a positive NPV,

August 01, 2011 Read Full Article

Oozing Biofuel: Algae Could Solve World's Fuel Crisis

by Von Philip Bethge (Der Spiegel Online)  Genetically modified blue and green algae could be the answer to the world's fuel problems. Bioengineers have already developed algae that produce ethanol, oil and even diesel -- and the only things the

August 01, 2011 Read Full Article

House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment Hearing: Hitting the Ethanol Blend Wall – Examining the Science on E15; Testimony of W. Steven Burke ∙ President and CEO, Biofuels Center of North Carolina

W. Steven Burke  (Biofuels Center of North Carolina)  ...America will continue to seek more augmentation of petroleum-based fuels and thus needs new models to gain large amounts of liquid fuel from sources other than corn in places other than the Midwest. North Carolina

July 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels: What Do the Experts Think?

by Matthew Knight (CNN)  It wasn't so long ago that biofuels were being heralded as the savior of the planet and a thoroughly green solution to our climate woes. But fair winds have been replaced by persistent storms of criticism.

July 29, 2011 Read Full Article

SWAFEA Final Report Lays Groundwork for the Deployment of Sustainable Aviation Biofuels in Europe

(GreenAirOnline)  Although the aviation sector has a good track record in reducing its environmental impact through efficiency gains, it is highly unlikely to reduce or even stabilise its emissions through this means alone, but biofuels present a real potential for

July 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Poet Has Green Plan for Water

by Anna Jauhola  (The Daily Republic)  In a continuing effort to operate as green as possible, Poet Biorefining is the first ethanol plant in the state to apply to use storm water in the facility rather than discharging it. Through an

July 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Portland Says NOPE to Bio Fuels Energy Plant

(YouandFilms.com)  ...Nope (http://nope.org.uk/) has been campaigning against the biofuel electric plant for more than 2 years. The plant has been approved by the local government but no building works have started. If the plan gets built we will see vast

July 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Boeing and Embraer to Fund Sugarcane Biofuel Study

by Kerry Reals  (FlightGlobal)  Boeing and Embraer are to jointly fund a sustainability analysis into producing renewable jet fuel sourced from Brazilian sugarcane. The study, which is also being funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), will evaluate the environmental effects of

July 28, 2011 Read Full Article

New Study Finds U.S. Ethanol Production Growth Has Not Triggered Indirect Land Use Change

(PR NewsWire/-- Prior studies failed to compare land use predictions to historical data A new study published in the July 2011 Biomass and Bioenergy Journal on indirect land use change (ILUC) due to biofuels production indicates that the real impact of U.S. biofuels

July 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Future Prospects for Cereals That Fix Nitrogen

by Perrin H. Beatty and Allen G. Good (Science Magazine)  Nitrogen availability is limiting to plant growth and has long been overcome through applications of synthetic nitrogen-rich fertilizer. This has revolutionized crop yield and food production worldwide, but at substantial economic and environmental

July 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Biodiesel Achieves 5-to-1 Return on Fossil Energy

(American Soybean Association/Southeast Farm Press)   Newly published research from the University of Idaho and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) shows that for every unit of fossil energy needed to produce biodiesel, the return is 5.54 units of renewable energy. A

July 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Link Between Crops and Deforestation in Amazon Not So Cut and Dry

(InfoZine)  A Kansas State University geographer is part of a research team out to prove what environmental scientists have suspected for years: Increasing the production of soybean and biofuel crops in Brazil increases deforestation in the Amazon. ...Although this cause-and-effect finding

July 21, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels Mandates Around the World

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...The bulk of mandates comes from the EU-27, where the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) specifies a 10 percent renewables content by 2020 across the entire membership – though 7 percent of that will come from

July 21, 2011 Read Full Article

First EU Sustainability Schemes for Biofuels Get the Go-Ahead

(European Commission)  Brussels, 19 July 2011 - Biofuels can represent an environmentally-friendly replacement of fossil fuels. However, we need to make sure that tropical forests and carbon rich peatlands are not turned into oil palm or sugarcane plantations. We also

July 20, 2011 Read Full Article

Will the EU Reveal Judging Criteria for Biofuel Bodies?

by Jessica Shankleman Green groups slam Commission's "back room" processes for approving sustainable biofuel certification schemes Green groups will today learn if the European Commission is ready to lift the lid on the methods it used to decide whether biofuels can be certified as

July 19, 2011 Read Full Article

Purdue Economists Report on Causes of High Commodity Prices

by Keith Robinson  (Purdue University)    Growing demand for corn to use in biofuels and for soybeans to help feed a booming Chinese economy are among key forces driving commodity prices higher this year, according to a report by three

July 19, 2011 Read Full Article

Analysis: Ethanol to Edge Pigs for Corn Use, but Not Quite Yet

by Charles Abbott and Karl Plume  (Reuters)  Ethanol appears almost certain to win the food-versus-fuel contest in the United States. But not just yet. The Agriculture Department forecast that a tad more corn will be used to make ethanol than to feed livestock

July 19, 2011 Read Full Article

Alliance Releases Wood-to-Energy Policy Roadmap

(25 x '25)  The National 25x'25 Alliance released this morning a new National Wood-To-Energy Roadmap - A Guide for Developing Sustainable Woody Biomass Solutions. The report that shows how focused use of woody biomass can help meet America's energy needs

July 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Food Security Not Necessarily Threatened By Biofuels

(Rainharvest)  To achieve “win-win outcomes” for bio-energy, food security and poverty reduction, we must recognise that these outcomes are possible. This is what Prof Lee Lynd, of Dartmouth College and the Mascoma Corporation, told delegates during a seminar at Stellenbosch University,

July 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Future of Food: Meet the Farmers and Scientists Who Could Save Our Fragile Global Food System

by Robin Barton (The Independent)  ...So I called my local farmer, David Bowtell. Sparing me the arcane details of the deal, he explained that growers of oilseed rape have received a cast-iron subsidy courtesy of the Common Agricultural Policy since

July 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Analysis: EU Cushions Biodiesel from Damning Carbon Research

by Charlie Dunmore  (Reuters)  The EU will protect existing investment in its $13 billion biodiesel sector even as it acts on new evidence that suggests making the fuel from food crops can do more harm than good in fighting climate

July 18, 2011 Read Full Article

SCS Offers Sugarcane Certification Program

by Joanna Schroeder  (DomesticFuel.com)  ...Brazil’s sugarcane industry is also accused of not producing the crop, nor the fuel, in a sustainable manner. As a result, the EU Renewable Energy Directive was created to address concerns including labor and environmental issues.

July 15, 2011 Read Full Article

Making Integrated Food-Energy Systems Work for People and Climate

(United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization)  A safe integration of food and energy production may be one of the best ways to improve national food and energy security and simultaneously reduce poverty in a climate smart way. This study on Integrated Food-Energy

July 15, 2011 Read Full Article

Neste Oil Expands Its Renewable Raw Material Base with Jathropha and Camelina Oils

(Yahoo!Finance/Neste Oil Oyj)  Neste Oil will expand the raw material base used to produce NExBTL renewable fuel with jatropha and camelina oils. By introducing these new raw materials in its feedstock base, Neste Oil increases the proportion of non-food materials

July 14, 2011 Read Full Article

Energy Crops Could Be Answer to Increased Insecticide Use

by Luke Geiver (Biorefining Magazine)  The link between increased insecticide use and landscape simplification has now been documented by a team of researchers from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center. ...But, while the research showed the upwardly trending use of insecticides

July 14, 2011 Read Full Article

Exclusive: Climate Impact Threatens Biodiesel Future in EU

by Charlie Dunmore  (Reuters)  Europe's biodiesel industry could be wiped out by EU plans to tackle the unwanted side effects of biofuel production, after studies showed few climate benefits, four papers obtained by Reuters show. Europe's world-leading $13 billion biodiesel industry,

July 13, 2011 Read Full Article

Switch from Corn to Grass Would Raise Ethanol Output, Cut Emissions

(EurekAlert!/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)  Growing perennial grasses on the least productive farmland now used for corn ethanol production in the U.S. would result in higher overall corn yields, more ethanol output per acre and better groundwater quality, researchers report

July 13, 2011 Read Full Article

EPA Defers Application of CO2 Emissions Rules to Biomass

(Troutman Sanders)  The EPA on July 1, 2011 issued a final rule deferring for three years application of the Clean Air Act’s Prevention of Significant Deterioration (“PSD”) and Title V permitting requirements to carbon dioxide (“CO2”) emissions from biogenic stationary

July 12, 2011 Read Full Article

At the Capitol: Alternative Energy Can Be Found Right Here in Illinois

by Rep. Jim Sacia  (Journal-Standard)  ...Ethanol is another source of alternative energy that has established a foothold in America, and we can be very proud of our own Adkins Energy ethanol plant in Lena. One of the strongest lobbying groups in

July 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol Integral to Farm Network

by Bryan Christjansen   (Journal Gazette)  In “Ethanol’s subsidies drain on economy” (Opinion, July 3), Wayne Townsend claims that ethanol production in the United States and in Indiana has caused the price of corn to “skyrocket,” thus “jeopardizing the financial

July 12, 2011 Read Full Article

China's Hunger for Corn Turns Market on Ear

by Tom Polansek, Ian Berry and Scott Kilman   (Wall Street Journal)  Demand From Beijing Augurs Higher Food, Futures Prices A Chinese buying spree for U.S. corn is putting on display the ability of Beijing to reshape grain markets as well

July 12, 2011 Read Full Article

New Analysis Continues to Disprove Food v. Fuel Canard

(Renewable Fuels Association)  There is no statistical evidence to support the argument that growth in ethanol production is driving consumer food prices higher, according to a comprehensive study released today by Informa Economics. Rather, the report concludes that retail food prices

July 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol Prices Have Dropped, Will Grocery Manufacturers Follow?

by Stephanie Dreyer (Growth Energy/Renewable Energy World)  After a report detailed that farmers have planted the largest number of corn acres in decades and with corn prices falling, one might expect grocery prices to drop. And one might even assume

July 06, 2011 Read Full Article

Momentum Gathering towards Aviation Biofuels Commercialisation as US and European Policy-Makers Signal Support

(GreenAirOnline)  The momentum driving the introduction of aviation biofuels received a significant boost with a number of initiatives and events taking place at last week’s Paris Air Show. While the transatlantic biofuel flights conducted by Boeing and Honeywell attracted wide

July 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels Land Grab in Kenya's Tana Delta Fuels Talk of War

(Guardian News and Mail)  Gamba Manyatta village is empty now, weeds already roping around the few skeletal hut frames still standing. The people who were evicted took as much of their building materials as they could carry to start again

July 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Buy FREEDOM Learn Truth About Ethanol

by Chuck Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com)  During the 2011 International Fuel Ethanol Workshop attendees got a chance to see the new documentary from Josh & Rebecca Tickell. I first met Josh during a National Biodiesel Conference before he produced his award winning film, “Fuel.”

July 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Letter to Editor: Is Ethanol a Solution, or a Problem?

by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association/New York Times)   In “The Great Corn Con” (Op-Ed, June 25), Steven Rattner claims that United States ethanol production makes food costlier and scarcer, pollutes the environment and drains the treasury. That is not the

July 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol Shifting Normal Supply, Demand Forces

by Steve Leer (Purdue University) • About 27 percent of the nation's corn crop must be devoted to ethanol this year to meet the federal mandate, leaving other corn users to compete for the remaining 73 percent. • The renewable fuels standard

July 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Nature Outlook Biofuels--Special Supplement

(Nature:  International Weekly Journal of Science)  Biofuels have big boots to fill. After more than 150 years of using petroleum and its products we have become dependent on it. First generation biofuels are showing us both the potential and the

July 02, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels Not to Blame for High Food Prices, Study Says

by  Rob O'Flanagan   (Guelph Mercury)   Biofuels are not the villain behind recent spikes in food prices, a new study funded by Grain Farmers of Ontario concludes. Terry Daynard, a corn expert and retired University of Guelph crop science professor, presented the

July 02, 2011 Read Full Article

FEW: The Time Has Finally Come for Dry Fractionation

by Ron Kotrba (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  ...(Pete) Moss, (vice president of marketing for cereal process technologies) says the 15 billion gallon cap on corn ethanol in RFS2 is one reason why fractionation will finally come to the dry mill corn

June 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Dr. Bruce Dale Receives FEW Award of Excellence

by Chuck Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com)  ...(A)t the 2011 International Fuel Ethanol Workshop, the 2011 Award of Excellence was presented to Dr. Bruce Dale, Michigan State University, by BBI International VP, Tom Bryan. Dale, professor of chemical engineering and associate director of the

June 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Despite Editorial, Ethanol's Not So Bad

by James Gough  (Fredericksburg Free Lance Star)  ...My primary concern with the editorial, however, is the certainty with which the writer declares, "we know now that ethanol production actually degrades the environment and causes increases in food prices. In fact,

June 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Major Financial Institution to Support Sustainable Aviation Biofuel Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

(GreenAirOnline)  The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has announced an initiative help finance public and private institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean to develop a sustainable jet biofuel industry from locally grown organic feedstock. The initiative will fund consultancy services,

June 29, 2011 Read Full Article

How Global Biofuel Expansion Could Affect the Economy, Environment and Food Supply

(World Bank)  National targets would contribute to rapid biofuel expansion in the next 10 years; Reaching those goals would have a limited impact on the global economy; Some countries would be affected significantly, with higher cost of food imports Expanding biofuel production to

June 29, 2011 Read Full Article

FACT Publication: Aquatic Biofuels for Local Development

FACT has published a comprehensive report on the opportunities and feasibility of aquatic biofuels, their limitations and associated problems and threats. Aquatic biomass is attracting a lot of interest as a valuable feedstock for second and third generation biofuels. Algae are

June 29, 2011 Read Full Article

How Rainforests Can Produce Biofuel Sustainably

by Christopher Mims   (Grist)  Production of biofuel from palm oil has been an unmitigated disaster for the rainforest, leading to clear-cutting throughout Indonesia and propelling that country to the top ranks of the world's largest greenhouse gas emitters. That's

June 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Commission Study Questions Carbon Dioxide Benefits from EU Biofuel

(E-Energy Market/European Voice)  Biofuel from palm oil, soybean and rapeseed produces more greenhouse-gas emissions than fossil fuel, once the environmental side-effects of its production are taken into account, an impact assessment prepared by the European Commission has found.  READ MORE

June 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Biodiesel Fuels Powering Camp Blanding Vehicles

by Sgt. 1st Class Blair Heusdens  (Clay Today)  In an effort to reduce waste and meet recycling goals, the Florida National Guard is producing biodiesel from used vegetable oil to fuel state maintenance vehicles at Camp Blanding Joint Training Center.

June 29, 2011 Read Full Article

The New "30 Years War"

by Michael T. Klare  (CBS News)  ...Over the coming decades, we will be embroiled at a global level in a succeed-or-perish contest among the major forms of energy, the corporations which supply them, and the countries that run on them.  The

June 29, 2011 Read Full Article

BP Lauds Use of Biofuels

(UPI)  ...The International Energy Agency estimates the number of cars on the road will double by 2030. Philip New, president of biofuels development at BP, told delegates at a London conference that with better fuel efficiency and an increased use

June 29, 2011 Read Full Article

FAO's New Leader Lays out His Plans

by Mark Tran  (The Guardian)  After narrow win in leadership contest, José Graziano da Silva pledges to reform the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, strive for consensus and tackle food price volatility ...He also stressed the need for a stable financial

June 29, 2011 Read Full Article

ADM's Decatur Facility to Produce More Lysine, Threonine

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  A plan to produce more lysine and threonine, both amino acids, at Archer Daniels Midland Co.’s plant in Decatur, Ill., won’t mean changes on the ethanol side. “This expansion will not impact ethanol production

June 29, 2011 Read Full Article

G20 Clinches First Farm Deal, Dodges Regulation

by Sybille de La Hamaide and Charlie Dunmore   (Reuters)  G20 farm ministers agreed to tackle high food prices on Thursday in a deal that steered clear of divisive details on issues such as regulation, paving the way to more global cooperation

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Instant View: G20 Farm Ministers Agree Deal on Food Prices

by Martin Roberts, Chuck Abbott, Sarah McFarlane, Charlie Dunmore, Jonathan Saul, Nigel Hunt  (Reuters)  G20 members settled a deal on Thursday to curb volatility in food prices, falling short of France's ambitious plans to impose tough new regulations on speculators, but agreeing to boost

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Addax Bioenergy Signs Loan Agreement for €258 Million Renewable Energy Project in Sierra Leone

(Business Wire)  Addax Bioenergy S.A. (“Addax Bioenergy”), a subsidiary of the Swiss-based energy group, The Addax and Oryx Group Limited (AOG), announced today the signing of a loan agreement with seven European and African development institutions for an integrated renewable

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Land for Biofuels or Crops? The Debate Rumbles on

by Caroline Henshaw   (The Wall Street Journal)  Agriculture ministers for the world’s richest nations are meeting in Paris this week to debate the best ways to tackle unprecedented volatility in food prices. But while farming officials for the Group of

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Inbicon Ag Studies Give Green Light to New Biomass-to-Ethanol Industry

(PR Newswire)  Today (June 21, 2011) Inbicon, inventor of the biomass conversion technology driving the Inbicon Biomass Refinery, announced a summary of its private crop studies and confidential biomass research. "Our findings confirm that North America's great abundance of corn

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

European Advanced Biofuels Flight Path Initiative

(European Commission)  The European Commission's services, in close coordination with Airbus, leading European airlines (Lufthansa, Air France/KLM, & British Airways) and key European biofuel producers (Choren Industries, Neste Oil, Biomass Technology Group and UOP), have launched an exciting new industry

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

World's First Self-Powered Modular Cellulose Ethanol Refinery Announced

(PRNewswire)  New product will include cellulose feedstock grown in shipping containers along with the container based ethanol refinery Allard Research and Development, the world leader in small to medium-scale ethanol fuel production systems, announced today the world's first self-powered modular cellulose

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Role India Can Play to Ease Food, Fuel Crisis

by Nagesh Kumar  (Rediff Business)    ...Price volatility for food grain should be addressed through the counter-cyclical use of buffer stocks. For smaller economies that do not have the capacity to sustain large national food stocks, price shocks can be managed

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels Are Creating a Big Buzz in Military

by Renee Schoof (McClatchy Newspapers/Seattle Times)  Maj. Aaron Jelinek of the Air Force Thunderbirds flies his F-16 upside down, rolls it, thunders past his teammates in breathtaking close charges and joins five other fighter jets in precision formation. And for the

June 27, 2011 Read Full Article

KLM Launches Commercial Flights Amsterdam–Paris on Biofuel

(KLM)  KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has taken another important step in aviation sustainability. In September KLM will launch more than 200 flights being operated on biokerosene between Amsterdam and Paris. “KLM has once again shown it is stimulating the development

June 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Speech from Sue Ellerbusch, President, BP Biofuels North America, Louisiana Energy Conference, June 23, 2011

(BP America)   ...BP began investing in biofuels in Louisiana in 2008 through what was then a joint venture with Verenium Corporation. Last year, we bought Verenium out and now have a 100% BP-owned facility in the state. It is a

June 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Five Ethanol Myths, Busted

by Forrest Jehlik (Argonne National Laboratory/Autopia)  ...We must develop a multitude of alternatives to address our future energy needs. One such alternative is ethanol, which is domestically generated and sustainable. However, there are many myths surrounding ethanol, and I’ve come

June 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels Are Job Creators, Not Hunger Villian: U.S.

by Charles Abbott  (Reuters)  Biofuels are a "tremendous job creator" for rural areas, said U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Monday, ahead of a global meeting where the farm-grown fuels may be criticized as a factor in high food prices. ...Biofuels, especially ethanol

June 23, 2011 Read Full Article

In Search of A Biofuel El Dorado: The Quest for Brazil’s Energy Independence Future

by Robert Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA)  In 1568, a Spanish Conquistador by the name of Pedro Maraver de Silva led his men on a mission to capture Incas who had escaped with their gold. Journeying north of Peru, they encountered

June 20, 2011 Read Full Article

Electric Cars May Not Be So Green after All, Says British Study

by Ben Webster (The Australian)  Electric cars could produce higher emissions over their lifetimes than petrol equivalents because of the energy consumed in making their batteries, a study has found. An electric car owner would have to drive at least 129,000km

June 20, 2011 Read Full Article

LowCVP Study Demonstrates the Increasing Importance of Measuring Whole Life Carbon Emissions to Compare Vehicle Performanc

(Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership)  Electric and hybrid cars create more carbon emissions during their production than standard vehicles – but are still greener overall, according to a new report. The report highlights the increasing importance of accounting for whole life carbon

June 20, 2011 Read Full Article

Navy on Coal-to-Liquids: No, Thanks

by Ben Geman (The Hill/E2Wire)  A top Navy official said Friday (June 3,2011) that the department isn’t interested in developing coal-based transportation fuels as an alternative to oil, noting there are more promising options. Tom Hicks, the Navy’s deputy assistant secretary

June 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Tanzania: Nation to Import Ethanol From Brazil

(AllAfrica/The Citizen)  Tanzania is set to import ethanol from Brazil in its bid to lower fuel prices by 10 per cent. This was said in Dar es Salaam over the weekend by Mr Leo Lyayuka, a senior principle marketing officer at

June 17, 2011 Read Full Article

US Official: Biofuels 'Scapegoat' for High Food Prices

by Steve Baragona   (Voice of America)   ...(Agriculture) Secretary (Tom)Vilsack told a luncheon gathering in Washington not to believe everything one hears about ethanol's role in today's high and volatile food prices. "The truth of the matter is that corn-based

June 15, 2011 Read Full Article

Petrobras Reaffirms Commitment to Biofuels at Biennial Event

by Kris Bevill (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  As Brazil recovers from a difficult start to the year in the ethanol sector, Petrobras, the country’s integrated energy firm, seized the opportunity to highlight its activities in the industry during an Ethanol Summit

June 14, 2011 Read Full Article

New Technologies Promise Improved Sustainability

by Kurt A. Rosentrater, Ph.D. (Ethanol Producer Magazine)   The fuel ethanol and distillers grains industry ...sustainably meets the growing needs for food, feed, fiber and fuel for our society as well as the rest of the world. ...Two key areas

June 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels, Ecosystem Services and Human Wellbeing: Putting Biofuels in the Ecosystem Services Narrative

by Alexandros Gasparatos, Per Stromberg and Kazuhiko Takeuchi (Science Direct) First generation biofuels provide a number of ecosystem services (e.g., fuel, climate regulation) but they also compromise other ecosystem services (e.g., food, freshwater services) which are of paramount value to

June 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Runway Cleared for Aviation Biofuels Surge in 2012

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ASTM gives preliminary OK to Bio-SPK fuel spec; path to 58B gallon aviation biofuels market comes clearer, closer In Washington, Bloomberg is reporting that ASTM has given preliminary approval to the blending of biofuels produced from algal,

June 10, 2011 Read Full Article

India’s New Food Security Law to Cover 70% of Its Population

by Joelle Brink (Biofuels Digest Asia) In India, the fact that good government is the best solution to food vs fuel competition was demonstrated this week when country’s famously tight policy on biofuels production was matched by a new food

June 09, 2011 Read Full Article

Investor Yet to Meet conditions for Licensing of Jatropha Project

By Mazera Ndurya and Daniel Nyassy (Daily Nation)  The environmental watchdog has not licensed a controversial multi-million shilling jatropha project because the investor has not complied with some of the conditions set by the government. Although the government has not out

June 08, 2011 Read Full Article

The True Story Behind Food Versus Fuel Debate

by Ron Miller (Biofuels Digest/Prisma Advisors)  “Hunger, despair for millions” reads the headline in a national newspaper looking to link high food prices with the growth of renewable fuels. Anti-ethanol factions oftentimes cite food costs in the ongoing food versus fuel

June 07, 2011 Read Full Article

SynGest Taps Honeywell for Renewable Ammonia Project Design

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Iowa, Honeywell has been selected to help SynGest design a proposed first-of-its-kind processing facility that will produce ammonia from biomass. The southwest-Iowa plant will process as much as 400 tons of biomass each day to produce

June 07, 2011 Read Full Article

Prof. Chandran Wins Gates Foundation Award

(Columbia University)  Kartik Chandran, an associate professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia Engineering, has been awarded $1.5 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for his project to develop a revolutionary new model in water, sanitation, and energy. Working with

June 07, 2011 Read Full Article

Fuels of the Future: The Bioalcohol Paradigm

by Drew Sowersby (Advanced Biofuels USA)  Fuels of the Future: The Bioalcohol Paradigm This slide presentation has been created by Drew Sowersby to inform a broad audience about the importance and potential dominance of bioalcohols in the transportation industry as

June 06, 2011 Read Full Article

Namibia Bans Large-Scale Jatropha Plantations as It Plans Further Study

by Chamwe Kaira  (Bloomberg)  Namibia has banned large scale jatropha-based biofuel projects in its north east until a study on its impact is undertaken, according to the country’s communications ministry. ...The Namibian government’s study will “determine the suitability of jatropha plant

June 03, 2011 Read Full Article

National Farmers Union Rejects Biofuel Criticism

(National Farmers Union)  Biofuels can help to create a strong and sustainable agricultural sector in Europe, NFU policy director Martin Haworth stressed this week. Speaking at an international food security conference in Brussels this week Mr Haworth criticised campaign groups for painting

June 02, 2011 Read Full Article

Is the Open Fuel Standard Good for Advanced Biofuels or for the USA? Don’t Think So!

by Robert Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA)  A proposal called the Open Fuel Standard (OFS) has recently been included in a number of bills (HR 1687 is one example) submitted for consideration by the US Congress. These OFS provisions go beyond

June 02, 2011 Read Full Article

Biotech Students to Produce Alternate Source of Energy in Surat

(Daily India.com)  In a bid to help cut down the price of fuel in the market by using waste material, some biotech students in Surat, Gujarat, are using water hyacinth to produce ethanol, which can be used as an alternate

June 01, 2011 Read Full Article

Battles over Biofuels in Europe: NGOs and the Politics of Markets

by Sarah Pilgrim and Mark Harvey  (Sociological Research Online)  In this paper, we argue that a consortium of NGOs has played a significant role in shaping the market for, and restricting the use of, biofuels as an alternative to conventional

June 01, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels Boom in Africa as British Firms Lead Rush on Land for Plantations

by Damian Carrington and Stefano Valentino (The Guardian)  British firms have acquired more land in Africa for controversial biofuel plantations than companies from any other country, a Guardian investigation has revealed. Half of the 3.2m hectares (ha) of biofuel land identified –

June 01, 2011 Read Full Article

How Manomet Got It Backwards: Challenging the "Debt-then-dividend" Axiom

by Dr. William Strauss (Renewable Energy World/FutureMetrics) This short article challenges the assumption that there is always a carbon debt incurred first and then a carbon dividend realized later (debt-then-dividend) when using woody biomass for energy.   The Manomet Study has generated

May 31, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol from Seaweed Project to Get a Major Boost

(Jagran Post)  The project of deriving ethanol, a bio-fuel for blending with petrol, from a seaweed is all set to get a major boost, with the Central Salt and Marine Chemical Research Institute (CSMCRI) deciding to ramp up off-shore production

May 31, 2011 Read Full Article

Middle Eastern Airlines Studying Biofuels as Efficient Alternative

by Ivan Gale  (The National)  Middle Eastern airlines are being urged to invest in biofuels programmes to help their industry achieve ambitious targets to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Aviation produces about 2 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions, but growth

May 31, 2011 Read Full Article

EU Rules on Biofuel Concern Soybean Growers

by Philip Brasher (Des Moines Register)  The European Union has set new environmental and labor standards for the crops used to make biofuels there, angering U.S. farmers who worry that such restrictions could spread to other products and countries. The standards

May 31, 2011 Read Full Article

Vilsack: Food Price Hike More than Ethanol

by Jerry Hagstrom  (AgWeek)  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told a gathering of international agricultural development activists recently that U.S. biofuels should not blamed for most of the increases in food prices in recent years. “With respect to food prices, corn-based

May 31, 2011 Read Full Article

Counterpoint: Gas Prices Would Double without Ethanol

by Ken Field (Financial Post)  The myths that smear a superior fuel ...A recent study released by the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) states that adding ethanol reduced wholesale gasoline prices by an average of US89¢ per gallon (US24¢/litre)

May 31, 2011 Read Full Article

European Commission Sued for Lack of Transparency on Biofuels Policy

(Client Earth)  The European Commission has been sued, accused of violating European transparency laws. Environmental law organisation ClientEarth, Friends of the Earth Europe (FOEE), FERN and Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) filed the lawsuit following the Commission’s refusal to provide access

May 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Malaysia and Indonesia Bolster Defence of Palm Oil Industry to West

(The Guardian/Eco-Business)  Malaysia and Indonesia, which together account for about 90% of the world’s palm oil production, have launched a joint PR offensive to defend the industry’s environmental record. ...(M)inisters from the two countries agreed to finalise plans for a European Palm Oil Council

May 27, 2011 Read Full Article

FAO and GBEP: Biofuels an Opportunity—Not a Threat—for Developing Nations

by Geoff Cooper (Renewable Fuels Association)  ...Luddites and Malthusians have suggested that crop-based biofuels simply can’t provide significant volumes of energy for transportation without starving the world’s poor. ...Of course, these ridiculous charges have been disproven time and time again, and the world’s

May 26, 2011 Read Full Article

Opportunities for Australia as Europe Seeks More Biofuel

(ABC Rural)   The European Union wants more of its transport fuel to be made from renewable biomass like canola oil. ...EU member states can't supply enough canola or soy oil to meet the demand, so there's an opportunity to increase

May 26, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuel Push Stalls In 'Car Crazy' Germany

by Eric Westervelt (NPR)  ...And even though it's cheaper, the new 10 percent ethanol gas is not something she'd risk putting into her car, the 32-year-old says. "You bet I'm worried about my car — most of all about the motor,"

May 25, 2011 Read Full Article

Could This Be the Farm of the Future?

by Tom Quaife (Dairy Herd Network)  “Pretty amazing,” commented one man standing next to a demonstration model at the Alltech International Animal Health and Nutrition Symposium this week in Lexington, Ky. The large-scale model, measuring approximately 4 feet by 4 feet,

May 25, 2011 Read Full Article

As Jet Fuel Prices Soar, a Green Option Nears the Runway

by Marianne Lavelle   (National Geographic News)  ...The standards-setting body ASTM International is set to vote this summer on certification of hydrotreated renewable jet (HRJ) fuel. Tests both in the laboratory and in the air (led by a most prodigious jet

May 24, 2011 Read Full Article

World Economic Forum Report Identifies Biofuels as the 'Game Changer' to Achieve Aviation Emissions Targets

(GreenAirOnline)  An aviation sustainability report from the World Economic Forum finds that achieving the industry’s target of halving its carbon emissions by 2050 will be a significant challenge given an 85 per cent CO2 emissions reduction gap. This is despite

May 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Worldwide Biofuels Production Guidelines Set by G8-Led Group of Nations

by Jim Efstathiou Jr. (Bloomberg)  The U.S. and China led 23 nations in agreeing on the the first guidelines for producing biofuel from crops such as palm oil, an agricultural commodity used for cooking and to make detergents as well as

May 24, 2011 Read Full Article

“The $1.01 a Gallon Tax Credit Will Help, but We Could Live without It”: Genencor

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Genencor CEO Tjerk de Ruiter says, “As long as they create a mandate, the $1.01 a gallon cellulosic tax credit will help, but could live without it.” Last week, Genencor released a foundational survey on consumer

May 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Big Food Shifting the Blame Higher Grocery Costs

by Chris Thorne (Growth Energy/NewsOK) letter to editor:  Regarding “Corn ethanol is burning up food budgets” (Point of View, May 13): J. Patrick Boyle, president and CEO of the American Meat Institute, misled readers about the real reason behind rising grocery

May 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Setting the Record Straight: Ethanol is Best Solution

by Mark Borer (Mansfield News Journal) Letter to Editor:  ...Importantly, all of corn's high-value components, protein and fat, are returned to the feed supply. Ethanol production only converts the low-value component of corn, starch, into ethanol. Koschnick's claim that ethanol is

May 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Brazil´s Biofuel Drama Goes Global

by Eric Ehrmann (Huffington Post) Speculators hedging uncertainty in world energy markets are again making renewable fuels derived from corn, cane sugar and soybeans the drivers of food price inflation, just as they did on the eve of the 2008 economic

May 24, 2011 Read Full Article

European Commission Funds Global Project to Produce Ethanol, Biodiesel and Bioproducts from Algae

(PR-Inside)  Nine partners from seven countries have joined in an innovative project to show that ethanol, biodiesel and bioproducts can be produced from algae on a large scale. The BIOfuel From Algae Technologies (BIOFAT) project, largely funded by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework

May 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Should Government Keep Financially Supporting Ethanol? (The Debate 5/23-5/27)

(Minnesota Public Radio News)  The Assertion: The state and federal government should continue subsidizing ethanol Ethanol's promise as America's path to energy self-sufficiency once seemed strong. But in recent years, that attraction has been tempered. Even supporters of ethanol, such as

May 23, 2011 Read Full Article

Do Biofuels Reduce Greenhouse Gases?

by Kevin Bullis  (MIT's Technology Review)  A new study fuels the debate over the impact of growing crops for fuel. Greenhouse-gas emissions from biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, may be lower than many researchers have estimated, according to a new

May 20, 2011 Read Full Article

MIT Adds to the Cap-and-Trade Debate

by James Ott (Aviation Week)  A report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) should be required reading for environmental policymakers. “The Impact of Climate Policy on US Aviation” was issued this week by the Transportation Research Board. It is

May 20, 2011 Read Full Article

Scientists to Grow Experimental Biofuel Grass at Chernobyl

(Monsters and Critics)  Scientists are to plant and harvest grass inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in an experiment to determine if biofuel can be safely produced in the region, an alternative-energy company said Monday. PhotoFuels, a Belgian-Ukrainian joint venture, has obtained approval

May 19, 2011 Read Full Article

India Could Replace Gasoline Imports With Ethanol by 2020, Study Shows

By Natalie Obiko Pearson   (Bloomberg)   ...India can potentially harvest enough bagasse, rice husk and sugar waste to produce as much as 50 billion liters (13 billion gallons) of ethanol without relying on food crops or disrupting agricultural land-use, according

May 19, 2011 Read Full Article

Everett Boatbuilder's African Ferry Almost Ready for Service

by Kurt Batdorf  (Snohomish County Business Journal)  Thain Boatworks' effort to bring reliable ferry service back to east Africa's Lake Victoria is about to bear fruit, albeit two years late. Rob Smith, chief executive and president of EarthWise Ventures Inc. and

May 19, 2011 Read Full Article

Vantage Point: Views on Food, Fuel and Land Use May 24, 2011 Webinar

It wasn’t long ago that the World Bank debunked the report that claimed biofuels cause food prices to increase.  Still, the issue is resurfacing, as can be seen in a flury of recent news reports.  Food prices are climbing, but experts agree

May 19, 2011 Read Full Article

The Comprehensive Certification and Documentation of Biodiesel

(UFOP)  From the field into the tank and back again According to legislation in effect since the beginning of 2011, biofuels can only be sold in the German market if it can be demonstrated that the energy plants from which the

May 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Why It’s Wrong to Agree with the Malthusians about Ethanol

by Robert Zubrin   (Pajamas Media)  Rising food prices are the result of rising oil prices, not a growing market for ethanol. ...There is not a fixed amount of grain in the world. Farmers produce in response to demand. The more customers,

May 17, 2011 Read Full Article

UK Renewable Energy Review: Another Acceptance of International Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) Arguments Without Analysis

by Robert Kozak  (Advanced Biofuels USA)  The UK Committee on Climate Change, an “independent statutory body which was established under the Climate Change Act (2008),” recently published their recommendations on future renewable energy in the UK, Renewable Energy Review,

May 17, 2011 Read Full Article

New Study Breaks Link Between Land Use, Biofuels

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com)  In a new study released today (May 16, 2011) by Michigan State University (MSU), biofuel production in the United States through 2007, “probably has not induced any indirect land use change.” The report was conducted by Seungdo

May 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Beyond Food vs. Fuel: FAO Finds Integrated Food and Energy Farming Could Save the Poor and the Planet

by Joelle Brink (Biofuels Digest Asia)  Before the advent of cheap petroleum, farmers often had their own “fuel patch” of local oilseed crops that served as feedstock for the biodiesel needed to power pumps, generator sets, tractors and other farm

May 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Campaign against Biofuels Stops at DfT Office

(Green Car Website)  Anti-poverty charity ActionAid has launched a new anti-biofuels campaign targeting Transport Secretary Philip Hammond by using adverts on buses which stop outside his office. The adverts urge Mr Hammond to consider the impacts that biofuels are having in developing countries

May 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Food v. Fuel Revisited

by Daryll E. Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer  (Daily Yonder)  ...As we listen to this debate, the implied assumption is that the sole purpose of farming is to provide food and certainly that has been true for over half a

May 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Quantifying Variability in Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Inventories of Alternative Middle Distillate Transportation Fuels

Russell W. Stratton, Hsin Min Wong, and James I. Hileman  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)   The presence of variability in life cycle analysis (LCA) is inherent due to both inexact LCA procedures and variation of numerical inputs. Variability in LCA

May 13, 2011 Read Full Article

Toward the Second Commitment Period of the Kyoto Protocol

by Andrew J. Weaver (Science)  Expectations are high that the Kyoto Protocol, intended to reduce emissions of certain greenhouse gases (GHGs), will be extended after its first reporting period ends in 2012. The mechanisms available to meet Kyoto targets will

May 13, 2011 Read Full Article

OriginOil’s French Joint Venture Participates in Large-Scale Algae Projects

(OriginOil)  OriginOil, Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technologyto extract oil from algae and an emerging leader in the global algae oil services industry, yesterday announced that Ennesys, its joint venture partner in France, is working with large institutions to develop two

May 13, 2011 Read Full Article

Food vs. Fuel: The Environment and Bio-Fuels

(Grain Farmers of Ontario)  Canadian biofuel is better for the environment than biofuel produced further south- in part due to our different agricultural practices - according to a new study released by the Grain Farmers ofOntario. The report, produced by Dr.

May 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Guest Post: It Takes a Bio Village--Easing the Global Food Crisis through Sustainable Agriculture

by Martin Brown (GreenTechMedia)  By 2050, for example, the global population is expected to reach 9 billion, and in order to feed all these people, we’ll have to increase the world’s food production by 70 percent. On its own, this 70 percent figure is

May 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Camelina Offers Hope as California Biofuel Crop

by Harry Cline  (Western Farm Press)  Camelina, a weed in the mustard and distant relative to canola, may be emerging as the front runner in California agriculture’s continuing search for a biofuel crop. It captured the most attention at a field

May 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Biodiesel 2011: The Real Opportunity

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  An interview with James Garton, president of Mission Biofuels USA subsidiary. We look at the jatropha 1.0 catastrophe, actual biodiesel capacity in the US, palm biodiesel, the RFS, and more. ...The company broke into the US

May 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Algae—Food or Chemical Grade?

by Riggs Eckelberry  (Algae Industry Magazine)  There’s a big question planners should be asking themselves when they put together an algae production plan: are we trying to meet food-grade requirements for our algae? That critical question drives the overall shape

May 11, 2011 Read Full Article

RFA: Ethanol Sector Generated 35 Million Tons of Animal Feed Last Year

(Renewable Fuels Association)  The animal feed created as a byproduct of U.S. ethanol production could supply beef for 50 billion quarter-pound hamburgers every day, the Renewable Fuels Association says in a report. U.S. ethanol producers generated almost 35 million metric tons

May 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Brazilian Renewable Energy: Attitude before Altitude, Part I

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...Over the past 12 months, it has become hard to count the number of advanced biofuels companies that are setting up partnerships, or exploring them, in Brazil – but it is in the dozens. Hard

May 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Colombia Pursues Sweet Dream of Becoming a Sugar-Cane Ethanol Powerhouse

by Nathanial Gronewold (Greenwire/New York Times)  ...Though 85 percent of Colombia's cane crop is harvested this old-fashioned way, industry leaders say they have no intention of mechanizing the harvest, for fear of mass unemployment in a rural area where people

May 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Namibia May Limit Biofuel Crop Planting: Paper

(Reuters)  Namibia may ban large-scale growing of biofuel crops in the fertile Kavango and Caprivi regions after a recommendation by Environment and Tourism Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, the Namibian Sun reported on Monday. The ban is likely to be adopted by the

May 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Perennial Corn Holds Hope for Cutting Environmental Damage

by Philip Brasher (Des Moines Register)  The time could come when farmers aren't getting on their tractors every spring to plant their crops, or even plowing their fields, exposing them to erosion. At least that's the vision of a few scientists

May 09, 2011 Read Full Article

Letter to Editor: Ethanol Isn't Perfect; Neither is Gasoline

by Lynwood Broaddus  (Free Lance Star/Fredericksburg.com)  ...The editorial begins, "Ethanol production boosts food prices, steals feed corn for fuel. " One bushel of corn can produce 2.5 gallons of fuel ethanol, 12.4 pounds of 21 percent (protein) feed, 3 pounds of

May 09, 2011 Read Full Article
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