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  • Clinton backs push to cellulosic ethanol

    Bill Cliniton, sometime US president, has been talking at the National Clean Energy Summit, in Las Vegas, last night. According to earth2tech, in 10 Things the US Government should do for clean power he said: We need to accelerate the move from corn-based ethanol to more sustainable biofuels. The conversion...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-19-2008

  • Nuclear could get a boost from current low opinion of biofuels

    The nuclear industry could get a boost, given the low opinion many people have about biofuels, if this piece from Biofuels to BioFailiure from the Heritage Foundation is anything to go by.
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-15-2008

  • 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

  • US Ethanol tax-breaks

    This is a pretty thorough list of tax breaks and incentives for US ethanol producers . Thanks Ron .
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-09-2008

  • 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 US Ethanol Import tariff is under review

    The 54-cent litre import duty on ethanol into the US could be reviewed in the 2009 budget, according to a report on Reuters discussed breifly on Facts About Ethanol . As the writer says the President proposes but Congress disposes. It will be interesting to see who lines up on which side of the debate...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-31-2008
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