Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'Detroit'

Ethanol wants to cosy up to Detroit

Large sections of the US ethanol business have been writing to the US car makers asking them to support higher volume blends of ethanol in future and tying that message to an innovate or die warning... It could be a...

Tie auto bail out with flex fuel

Check out the Des Moines Register story about calls that any bail out of Detroit automakers should be tied to higher proportions of flex fuel vehicles in their ranges.That is fine, but I think that it would be much better...

Fuel efficiency to be main focus at Frankfurt Motor Show

Fuel efficiency to be main focus at Frankfurt Motor Show, according to Product reviews net. This has to be a good thing. There is little point in people switching to biofuels (which are very resource intensive -- it takes as...

We need to speed the acceptance of biofuels by slowing down the rate of acceptance

We need to speed the acceptance of biofuels by slowing down the rate of acceptance, that appears to be the approach of a new group called The Alliance for a Safe Alternative Fuels Environment (AllSAFE) which won a victory recently...

Barak Obama Detroit and ethanol

Check out The Frontal Cortex's report on a speech Barak Obama made in Detroit, the US car capital. It ranged over fuel, farmers and the future of Detroit.  Jonah Lehrer says I'd feel better about Obama's plans if he wasn't a leading supporter...