Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'price'
ICIS has broadened the scope of its biofuel price reports.
ICIS has broadened the scope of its biofuel price reports. In Europe, adding to the comprehensive biodiesel coverage of rapeseed methyl ester (RME) and fatty acid methyl ester (FAME -5 & -0 CFPP), the report will now also reflect biodiesel...
Corn price rise: speculative bubble
The Reuter's person on the spot at the Chicago Board of Trade says the price rise corn experienced this year was due to a speculative bubble caused by money moving out of stocks into commodities. The price is falling as...
Holiday time for me
I'm off on annual leave on 1 August returning to the office on 18 August. I'll be travelling irritatingly slowly up the UK motorway system in an attempt not to have to refill the car any more than I can...
Is the price of corn related to the price of crude?
Is the price of corn related to the price of crude? Many in the US ethanol business say that it isn't this chap isn't so sure... ...
Corn price and investors
Des Moines Register has a piece about the way that moves to reduce the ethanol mandate in the US could reduce the amount of investment in cellulosic ethanol.To which I say: Duh. well yes if its done wrong I guess...
US biofuel industry says: don't blame us for food price hikes
The US National Biodiesel Board is telling people that the rise in prices at grocery stores is down to the rise in fuel prices not down to the diversion of food crops in the US into fuel. Joe Jobe, the...
How much is ethanol costing the US
How much does ethanol cost the US, that's the question on a post from Say Anything. just to remind us the author spells it out like this... The other think that’s remarkable in this article is just how much the...
A salutory lesson in fuel efficiency
I've just been given a salutory lesson in fuel efficiency on my way back from a week's holiday. I took the holiday after filming for a week in the US for my employer ICIS around the NPRA's recent convention in...
The end of the free for all...
Kevin Downing on the MaRS blog thinks that it is going to get harder to fund new ethanol plants. I think that he's right, not only because the regulatory framework that biofuels plants will operate in is likely to change...
Is the rising price of corn forcing up the price of food?
Is the rising price of corn forcing up the price of food? Despite the measured tones (and graph) in my previous post (Is the price of corn too low?),the price of bagels in New York seems to be more closely...
Is the price of corn too low?
Is the price of corn too low? Is the rising price of corn feeding through to inflation in the price of food. The answer may not be as clear cut as first appears, sure the price of corn has increased...
UN FAO has more doubts about biofuels
Over on Greenbang, there's an interesting comment on the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's latest thoughts on biofuels and the spike they are causing in agricultural commodity prices. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hIipI7rsh-IaoutsJKgAmzG5Mh0gD8UBKQ6O1 Its worth reading the report on Regan Suzuki's comments on the...
Will 2008 be the year that society turns against biofuels?
Will 2008 be the year that society turns against biofuels? Big questions today, but with good reason. Food costs alone will continue to rise because of the use of food crops to make biofuels. I know that the amounts are...
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...
Palm oil at new high on food sector demand
Palm oil is at a new high on food sector demand, according to my colleague Anu Agrual, writing from Singapore on ICIS news. Disclosure (I work for ICIS: About ICIS) The key message from the story is that in the...
Your own UK biofuel for about 12p/litre
You can make your own biofuels at around 12pence ($0.24/Euro0.16)/litre in the UK if you use waste oil, according to EcoTec resources. That's a saving of around 88p/litre on a gallon of diesel. At those prices you could afford to...
Biodiesel and wealth, undreamt of wealth... perhaps
I came across this on YouTube, it was posted a little earlier today... before you watch it, you might be interested to read about what the price of palm oil is doing to the biofuel industry in southeast Asia. If...
Wheat prices up and Brazil worries about ethanol
Rich pickings today on Planet Ark, the price of wheat in Europe is soaring, apparently because of a drought in Australia. Didn't know we imported much wheat from Australia, mostly lamb. The absolute prices for wheat in the US quoted...
The linkages between oil and soy prices
The linkages between oil and soya prices, and, more broadly, the link between food and fuel prices is investigated in this report by Judith Taylor, on ICIS News (Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS) Quoting from Judith's report for...
Biofuels may help poor farmers: World Watch
Biofuels may help poor farmers, according to a book out today "Biofuels for Transport: Global Potential and Implications for Energy and Agriculture," authored by the Worldwatch Institute and published by Earthscan. The authors say: In addition, growth in biofuels production...
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