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  • USDA wants biorefinery grant requests for new technologies

    The USDA wants requests for loans to build biofuel plants that do not use corn starch as the raw material starting point. The Biorefinery Assistance Program provides loan guarantees for the development, construction and retrofitting of viable commercial-scale biorefineries producing advanced biofuels...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-01-2008

  • 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

  • There's a plan!

    The US National Biodiesel Research and Development Board has plan for Biofuels . Published two days ago...it will be interesting to see if it changes much after January.... in the light of Obama's victory in the polls last night .
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-05-2008

  • EPA to rule on Texas' exit from biofuel mandate on 24 July

    A piece on B loombergg today goes into some detail behind Texas' Governors' plan to try and get out of the national requirement to make 9bn gallons of ethanol . The story says that there will have to be a decision by Friday. You may remember, I mentioned Texas' cattle ranchers plans in early...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-22-2008

  • 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

  • Why fuel efficiency might not help reduce gasoline consumption

    I've been happily espousing the cause of greater fuel efficiency in this blog over the past few months as a way of reducing fuel consumption . I may have been wrong. I've just discovered the Jevons paradox . To cut a long story short: making things efficient reduces the cost of the input per...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-23-2008
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