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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
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
Ethanol doubts in the heartland

It is worth checking out a story in the Des Moines Register, posted on 17 October by Dan Piller Ethanol cos. hurt by prices may get help from USDA. Read the comments.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-20-2008
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
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
National Alternative Fuel Vehicle day on 30 September

National Alternative Fuel Vehicle day on 30 September was one of the first of a range of events across the US in the coming months. I missed this at the time, travelling may broaden the mind, but you can't do much at all when you're laptop's battery is on the blink.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-02-2008
Schafer says phases out ethanol incentives

Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer told a meeting in Kansas on 11 September that the blenders tax credit and the tariff on imported ethanol should be phased out when domestic production gets to 34bn gal/year, according to Good Fuels , which goes into a discussion of the semantics of subsidies vs incentives...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-18-2008
US on track to deliver second biggest ever corn crop

The US is on track to deliver the country's second biggest ever corn crop , according to numbers from the US department of agriculture and reported on ICIS news. (Disclosure: I work for ICIS: About ICIS ) My pal William Lemos' report says: The USDA said in its monthly report it expects 12.07bn...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-15-2008
Poet to make cellulosic biofuel by year end

Poet LLC, formerly Broin, says it will be making cellulosic ethanol at a plant in Dakota by the end of the year , according to a report in Iowa Farmer Today. It looks like Poet will be using DuPont technology, under an agreement signed in 2006 to make the ethanol. Poet gained funding from the US Department...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-11-2008

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