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Biofuels: is the cure worse than the disease?

Biofuels: is the cure worse than the disease? That is the question posed by Ron Steenblick, and Richard Doornbosch in a recent online publication.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-21-2008
Meatpackers say aid to ethanol plants would be unfair and discriminatory

US meat producers are saying in the Des Moines Register that aid to ethanol producers that are facing trouble because of movements in the price of corn over the previous year would be unfair and "would be a startling new development that discriminates in favour of one segment of American agriculture...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-23-2008
Restaurants set to raise prices as corn cost feed through to plates

A number of US restaurant chains look set to rise prices this year as higher corn prices ripple along the supply chain, according to Huffington post . The key paragraph is buried towards the end of the article.... Part of the problem stems from protein producers' plans to cut back on production in...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-14-2008
Webinar on US grain outlook

Part of CBOT is offering a free webinar on the outlook for the US grain harvest this year today at 2-3pm central US time. That's two days before the US Department of Agriculture is due to release USDA Crop Production and Supply and Demand report on October 10th.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-08-2008
Corn estimates down in the US

The US Department of Agrculture has lowered its estimates of the volume of corn and soy that will be harvested this year. So 2008 will only be the second largest crop in history. It might have been higher if the weather had been better. That story's in the Des Moines Register . You should subscribe...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-06-2008
A corny car

Sue, my colleague, found this picture of a corn built car on the Gas 2.0 blog in a post about Dow Chemical and Ford Motor Co and the future of fuels and motoring.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-25-2008
A biofuels polemic from Huffington Post

If you are interested in the e nvironmental impact of biofuels in the US check this polemic on the Huffington Post . Makes some good points about the end to end efficiency of biofuels in the automotive sector. You can't comment on it there, so perhaps you'd like to do so here.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-29-2008
1000 entries and what have we learned?

Put out the flags. I've reached the 1000 post mark. I started this in October 2006 with an open if sceptical mind. Its been a lot of fun so far. I've met a whole bunch of people who have commented on what I've written and offered suggestions and I'd like to thank you for that. I've...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-16-2008
Louisana signs advanced biofuels law into being

Lousiana has signed the HB1270 Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative into law. It features the use of hydrous and anhydrous ethanol as a fuel blend stock that will be derived from plants grown in Lousiana (but not corn) and capable of producing 600gal/acre, with only one-third nitrogen input...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-15-2008
Biofuels and the whole of non-meat farming

Andy Posner, over on the Huffington Post raises some good questions about land use in a world where we're increasingly using biofuels. I suggest in a comment that perhaps a little high-fructose corn syrup should be fermented to ease the US obesity crisis. Fat chance of that happening then.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-14-2008

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