Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'Times'

Distillers grains and cattle.

OK this is slightly off beam, but a lot of people are very keen of feeding distillers grains to cattle. For some ethanol plants it is the most profitable part of the business. Animal husbandry is not an area that...

Fertilizer and biofuels

The New York Times has discovered that you need fertiliser to grow corn. The august organ has also discovered that not all the nitrogen fertiliser gets absorbed by the plants and that it can run off into rivers and cause...

The FT has noticed that there's a link between oil and palm oil prices

The FT has noticed that there's a link between oil and palm oil prices in a piece in today's edition. In as much of the article that the paper is making free, they say: The prospect of crude oil staying...

New York Times likes fuel efficiency over biofuels

The United States will not meet the dual challenges of reducing global warming and its dependence on foreign suppliers of energy until it manages to reduce energy consumption. That should be its main goal. That was part of an op-ed...

The New York Times gets Jatropha

The New York Times gets Jatropha! in a recent story the newspaper with its finger on the beating pulse of the world's most important city (after the city in which you live) has discovered the magic plant. My advice: Look...

Sweden calls for tariff-free biofuel trade

Sweden's Minister for Foreign Trade, Sten Tolgfors recently used the,Taipei Times (where else) to call for the global trade in biofuels to be tariff-free. Sweden's starting point is the conviction that a more liberal trade regime, coupled with global standards,...

Now uncertainty over ethanol is keeping US gas prices up

Now uncertainty over ethanol is keeping US gas prices up according to the NW Republican blog quoting a report by Jad Mouawad in the New York Times. Gas prices are spiking again -- to an average of $3.22 a gallon,...

FT gets wind of wheat price rises

The Financial Times has cottoned on to the fact that using wheat for bioethanol could push the price up in coming years...Adam Smith would have been proud... According to the report: Jonathan Kingsman, an agricultural consultant, ­estimates that in Europe...