Archive for March, 2009
Ethanol Investors Try to Derail California’s Carbon-Emissions Proposal
Ethanol investors try to derail California’s carbon-emissions proposal Email Picture Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sits next to an ethanol-powered vehicle after signing an order establishing the world’s first low-carbon standard for transportation fuels in California in January. A group of ethanol investors met with Gov. Schwarzenegger in an effort to derail [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Farmers Want Obama to Make Carbon a Cash Crop Under Climate Law
Farmers Want Obama to Make Carbon a Cash Crop Under Climate Law By Lorraine Woellert and Alan Bjerga March 26 (Bloomberg) — Rex Woollen grows corn and soybeans. In 2007, the Wilcox, Nebraska, farmer started cultivating a new commodity: carbon. By not tilling his 800 acres, Woollen by some estimates keeps 470 tons [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Why the Ethanol Import Tariff Should be Repealed
Why the Ethanol Import Tariff Should be Repealed __________________ Repeal Would Enable Ethanol Demand to Move Beyond Being Just a Blending Component in Gasoline to a Truer Transportation Fuel Alternative Gainesville, FL (August 3, 2008) – The question is whether the 54 cents per gallon tariff the United States places on imported [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Bipartisan Senate Bill Seeks Lower Tariffs on Ethanol Imports
Bipartisan Senate bill seeks lower tariffs on ethanol imports The New York Times By BEN GEMAN, Greenwire March 18, 2009 A bipartisan group of senators is seeking to lower U.S. tariffs on ethanol imports to achieve “parity” with the blender’s credit, which was reduced in last year’s farm bill. The farm bill knocked [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Business Leaders Call for Linking Water, Energy and Climate in Global Talks
Business Leaders Call for Linking Water, Energy and Climate in Global Talks Green Car Congress 19 March 2009 Log scale plot of illustrative water consumption by energy-related activity. In the examples cited in the report, biomass for biofuels has the largest and widest ranging footprint: from 24,000 m3 per 1,000 GJ in the Netherlands [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )New Legislation Would Require Half of US New LDVs in 2012 to be Alcohol Flex-Fuel, 80% by 2015
New Legislation Would Require Half of US New LDVs in 2012 to be Alcohol Flex-Fuel, 80% by 2015 Green Car Congress 18 March 2009 A bipartisan group of US legislators, led by Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY-17), have introduced legislation that would require half of all light-duty vehicles (LDVs) made or sold in America by [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Auditor Questions Verenium’s Ability to Continue
Auditor Questions Verenium’s Ability to Continue By DIRK LAMMERS Associated Press March 17, 2009 An outside auditor for Verenium Corp. said in a filing Monday that the advanced biofuels company may have to “curtail or cease operations” if it cannot raise additional capital. Verenium shares fell 5 cents, or 12.8 percent, to 34 cents in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Report Finds Water Stress Rapidly Becoming Key Strategic Risk to Commerce; Impending Water/Energy Collision
Report Finds Water Stress Rapidly Becoming Key Strategic Risk to Commerce; Impending Water/Energy Collision by Jack Rosebro Green Car Congress 17 March 2009 Water consumption or withdrawals per unit of energy produced, by energy type, in the United States. Source: DHI Group. Click to enlarge. A Pacific Institute report commissioned by Ceres, whose Investor [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )IEA Cuts Demand Forecast, Non-OPEC Supply Growth on Recession
IEA Cuts Demand Forecast, Non-OPEC Supply Growth on Recession by Alexander Kwiatkowski March 13, 2009 (Bloomberg) — The International Energy Agency cut its 2009 oil demand forecast for a seventh month as the global slump saps consumption. Non-OPEC supply growth has stopped as investment drops and faults close fields, it said. The [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )IEA’s Report on 1st- to 2nd-Generation Biofuel Technologies
IEA’s Report on 1st- to 2nd-Generation Biofuel Technologies by Ralph E. H. Sims & Michael Taylor (International Energy Agency) RenewableEnergyWorld.com March 9, 2009 The current debate over biofuels produced from food crops has pinned a lot of hope on “2nd-generation biofuels” produced from crop and forest residues and from non-food energy crops. This IEA report, [...]
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