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  • Ethanol subsidies could be safe for a while

    Ethanol subsidies could be safe for a while.There's a really nice explanation of why subsidies are hard to abolish in Price of Oil: Hidden Oil Subsidies from Tree Hugger.com and on Huffington Post . I couldn't put it any more clearly than in the first paragraph.
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-16-2008

  • Biofuels drive up food prices: Bodman and Scafer

    There's been a definitive piece of work on biofuels and food prices presented to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on 11 June chaired by Jeff Bingaman . Two secretaries of state Samuel W. Bodman (energy) and Edward T. Schafer (agriculture) respond to a series of questions from...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-13-2008

  • This doesn't quite ring true to me

    There's a long and thorough going piece over on Farm Futures about the Biofuel Smear Campaign . I'm not sure that I agree with it entirely. It is based on the US experience, and that as far as it goes is OK. In the US the price of food is only partly determined by the price of food based ingredients...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-08-2008

  • 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 over the coming months and years, but also I think the economics of biofuel...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-05-2008
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