Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'Union'
Consumers want greater fuel efficiency
This is a little old, and I'm only linking to it now for our American readers, the Europeans, will of course be on top of this sort of thing... There is a recent poll which shows there is considerable appetite...
European Ethanol Association
There is a new trade group designed to promote industrial ethanol in the European Union... called the Industrial Ethanol Association. It has an interesting view of fair trade in ethanol......
European Union's biofuels subsidies measured
The Size and scope of the European Union's biofuels subsidies is outlined in a new report from the Global Subsidies Initiative, which recently looked at biofuel subsidies in OECD members. Taking some of the key findnings Transfers per tonne of...
Biofuel Cities newsletter
Biofuel Cities is a European initiative designed to get more cities in Europe to use more biofuels... there's a newsletter too....
Franz Fischler talks about biofuel
Franz Fischler, a former European Commissioner in charge of agriculture talks about biofuels, profitability and energy balances over on Domestic fuel. Worth checking out. One of his later sentences is telling... he says: To meet the EU's target of 10%...
EU opens distillation tender
EU opens distillation tender to convert unwanted wine into industrial ethanol, according to the Turkish Daily News. The distillation will help take excessive wine off the market and support prices in Europe. As I said in July, this is not...
Ethanol is not always good, in Barbados
Ethanol is not always a good idea, in countries like Barbados. That is the story the Barbados Free Press has on-line, about the visit of some European Union advisors to the country, who were sent to look into the suitability...
Can markets solve global warming?
Gristmill has a couple of interesting blogs on a recent pronouncement from JK Galbraith, who's been peering over his glasses at a number of conundrums including whether markets can solve global warming....
UK has enough land to meet RTFO says NUF
The UK has enough spare land to grow crops that would enable the country to meet its Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation, according to a post over on FWi's Food for Thought blog. Charles Abel says Significantly, the NFU estimates that...
Crisis Distillation to start in France and Italy
The French and Italian wine industries are being paid by the EU to distil wine into ethanol, rather than have the price of wine fall because of overproduction. It is a mad world my masters. Why can't they sell the...
Food , UN Agencies, biofuels and confusion
Talk about food and biofuels to UN Agencies, confusion is the outcome. About a month ago I ran a piece suggesting that it was not unreasonable for different parts of the UN to disagree over food policy.There's no joined up...
George Soros wants biofuel tariffs lifted
George Soros, who among other things, has a stake in the Brazilian Ethanol industry, wants the tariffs on ethanol from that country into the US and also Europe (something I didn't know about and will investigate) lifted, according to Domestic...
EU to restructure its sugar regime
The EU is to restructure its sugar regime, cutting production at the same time as it is promoting biofuels. Does the left hand talk to the right hand? I don't think so....
Malaysia Board on EU biodiesel policy
Tan Sri Dr Yusof Basiron the CEO of the Malaysian Palm Oil Council explained why he thinks the European Union needs to get its own house in order before considering preventing non-certificated palm oil imports for use in biodiesel in the...
Rounding reaction to the State of the Nation
The number of posts about ethanol has jumped from an average of about thirty/day to over four hundred/day according to technorati today. The interest is driven, of course by the State of the Union and...
Biodiesel: what's the rationale?
Why bother with biodiesel? The European Biodiesel Board published a list of questions and answers in July, in response to the European Commission, which asked for comments as part of its plan to modify...
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