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Ethanol wants to cosy up to Detroit

Large sections of the US ethanol business have been writing to the US car makers asking them to support higher volume blends of ethanol in future and tying that message to an innovate or die warning... It could be a good idea...there does need to be more buy in from automakers to help ethanol/butanol...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-27-2008
Phonix fire department needs to educate home brewers

Nice story about a lack of communication in Phoenix, Arizona carried by the New York times. It seems biodiesel home brewers are neglecting to get permits to make biofuel. Story is interestingly written in that it does not attempt to give the person who behind the story a chance to put their point of...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-24-2008
Tie auto bail out with flex fuel

Check out the Des Moines Register story about calls that any bail out of Detroit automakers should be tied to higher proportions of flex fuel vehicles in their ranges. That is fine, but I think that it would be much better to tie a bail out with a marked increase in fuel efficiciency across the whole...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-21-2008
Corn is the foundation of US fast food.

Interesting, if off topic, Maribo has piece on the way that the US fast food industry is built on corn. I'll have the corn with a side of corn , too.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-18-2008
Solix plans algae biofuel plant in Colorado

Solix is planning to build a carbon-dioxide to biofuels plant in Colorado. It's going to use carbon dioxide which is pumped to the Texas oil fields to help extract oil and use water that comes out of a methane bed in the South Ute reservation. The story is buried in the middle of a pile of stuff...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-17-2008
Growth Energy launches today

A new trade association for the US ethanol industry is scheduled to launch tomorrow. It's called Growth Energy . Thanks to NathanSchock , who's at a National Press Club launch today.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-11-2008
EPA may investigage corn ethanol's environmental credentials

The US Environmental Protection Agency, may start investigating the environmental benefits of corn ethanol processes, according to a post on Chemically Green , which quotes a letter from Friends of the Earth and others to the EPA. The thrust of the letter is that the EPA should consider all of the effects...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-11-2008
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
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 I know much, if anything about. At home we struggle to keep goldfish alive above three months...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-22-2008
US Clean Cities program displaces 0.2% of US gasoline demand

The US Clean Cities program has displaced 0.214% of US road fuel demand in 2008, according to figures relased by the organisation which show that a total of 384m gal were reduced from a total of all road fuel of 174 930 m gal in 2006 (the last year for which figures are available) at a cost of $132m...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-20-2008

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