Thursday, March 29, 2007
Burdening Brazil With Ethanol, Biofuels
Burdening Brazil With Biofuels
Lúcia Ortiz and David Waskow, March 19, 2007
The prospects of a massive boom in ethanol production to meet demand in the United States is not entirely pleasant. If the U.S. moves to meet a substantial proportion of its fuel needs from biofuels the pressure to import ethanol and other biofuels will mount rapidly, reaching quantities far beyond what Brazil currently produces. Providing biofuels to meet just 10 percent of current U.S. gasoline consumption would require multiplying Brazil’s already sizeable ethanol production many times over. Expanding Brazil’s biofuel industry on such a large scale will create serious environmental and social problems, says this interesting news article.
Read the full article from here @ Tom Paine
Lúcia Ortiz and David Waskow, March 19, 2007
The prospects of a massive boom in ethanol production to meet demand in the United States is not entirely pleasant. If the U.S. moves to meet a substantial proportion of its fuel needs from biofuels the pressure to import ethanol and other biofuels will mount rapidly, reaching quantities far beyond what Brazil currently produces. Providing biofuels to meet just 10 percent of current U.S. gasoline consumption would require multiplying Brazil’s already sizeable ethanol production many times over. Expanding Brazil’s biofuel industry on such a large scale will create serious environmental and social problems, says this interesting news article.
Read the full article from here @ Tom Paine
Labels: biofuels-problems, biofuels-trends, brazil, brazil-usa, environment, ethanol, ethanol-brazil, ethanol-usa, problems, trends
Biofuels increasing food prices globally
Biofuels increasing food prices globally
Lester Brown, 21 March 2007, Cherry Creek News
The escalating share of the U.S. grain harvest going to ethanol distilleries is driving up food prices worldwide.
Corn prices have doubled over the last year, wheat futures are trading at their highest level in 10 years, soybean futures have risen by half. A Bloomberg analysis notes that the soaring use of corn as the feedstock for fuel ethanol “is creating unintended consequences throughout the global food chain.”
Food prices are also rising in China, India, and the United States, countries that contain 40 percent of the world’s people. While relatively little corn is eaten directly in these countries, vast quantities are consumed indirectly in meat, milk, and eggs in China and the US.
Read the full report from here @ Cherry Creek News
Lester Brown, 21 March 2007, Cherry Creek News
The escalating share of the U.S. grain harvest going to ethanol distilleries is driving up food prices worldwide.
Corn prices have doubled over the last year, wheat futures are trading at their highest level in 10 years, soybean futures have risen by half. A Bloomberg analysis notes that the soaring use of corn as the feedstock for fuel ethanol “is creating unintended consequences throughout the global food chain.”
Food prices are also rising in China, India, and the United States, countries that contain 40 percent of the world’s people. While relatively little corn is eaten directly in these countries, vast quantities are consumed indirectly in meat, milk, and eggs in China and the US.
Read the full report from here @ Cherry Creek News
Labels: biofuels-problems, economics, ethanol, ethanol-usa, food, prices
U.S. Auto Chiefs Ask Bush for Incentives on Biofuels
U.S. Auto Chiefs Ask Bush for Incentives on Biofuels
By Gopal Ratnam, Bloomberg
March 26 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. automakers' chief executive officers urged President George W. Bush to back incentives to bring ethanol and biodiesel to more pumps as the companies boost output of so-called flex-fuel vehicles.
Half the vehicles made by General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., and DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler by 2012 could be able to run on biodiesel or E85, a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline, the CEOs said in a statement.
Read the full news report from here @ Bloomberg
By Gopal Ratnam, Bloomberg
March 26 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. automakers' chief executive officers urged President George W. Bush to back incentives to bring ethanol and biodiesel to more pumps as the companies boost output of so-called flex-fuel vehicles.
Half the vehicles made by General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., and DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler by 2012 could be able to run on biodiesel or E85, a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline, the CEOs said in a statement.
Read the full news report from here @ Bloomberg
Labels: autos, autos-usa, biofuels, biofuels-usa, e85, ethanol, ethanol-usa, incentives, incetives-biofuels
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Businesses scramble to squeeze ethanol from Florida citrus waste
Businesses scramble to squeeze ethanol from Florida citrus waste
March 15, 2007
KANSAS CITY - Companies wanting to produce ethanol from citrus waste in Florida are scrambling to obtain patents and secure sites for pilot projects, evidence that the national craze for the fuel is branching out from the more traditional grain-based feedstock.
The material used in the process is what is left after processors have squeezed the juice from the orange, which equals nearly one-half of the fruit's original mass.
Read the full news article from Check Biotech
March 15, 2007
KANSAS CITY - Companies wanting to produce ethanol from citrus waste in Florida are scrambling to obtain patents and secure sites for pilot projects, evidence that the national craze for the fuel is branching out from the more traditional grain-based feedstock.
The material used in the process is what is left after processors have squeezed the juice from the orange, which equals nearly one-half of the fruit's original mass.
Read the full news article from Check Biotech
Labels: biofuels-usa, ethanol, ethanol-usa, usa, waste-usa
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Monday, March 26, 2007
Ethanol, energy and profits
Ethanol, energy and profits
March 24, 2007, Author: David Kennell
Brazil leads the world with “hundreds of miles” of sugarcane plantations, much of it derived by decimation of vast areas of the large Amazon rainforest basin, critical for life on the planet. Eight of 10 new Brazilian cars are fueled by ethanol. Brazilian media billed Bush’s meeting with President Lula da Silva as a bid to create a new “OPEC of ethanol.”
However, analysts point to a major problem for the Brazil-U.S. relationship: a 54 cent U.S. tariff per gallon on Brazilian ethanol. Since corn is the major U.S. plant source for ethanol, the tariff is to protect the U.S. agrichemical industry (free trade indeed).
Read more on this interesting viewpoint from this report @ People's Weekly World
March 24, 2007, Author: David Kennell
Brazil leads the world with “hundreds of miles” of sugarcane plantations, much of it derived by decimation of vast areas of the large Amazon rainforest basin, critical for life on the planet. Eight of 10 new Brazilian cars are fueled by ethanol. Brazilian media billed Bush’s meeting with President Lula da Silva as a bid to create a new “OPEC of ethanol.”
However, analysts point to a major problem for the Brazil-U.S. relationship: a 54 cent U.S. tariff per gallon on Brazilian ethanol. Since corn is the major U.S. plant source for ethanol, the tariff is to protect the U.S. agrichemical industry (free trade indeed).
Read more on this interesting viewpoint from this report @ People's Weekly World
Labels: brazil, brazil-usa, economics, environment, ethanol, ethanol-brazil, ethanol-usa, sustainability
Biofuels launch 'third wave' to help meet increasing energy demand
Biofuels launch 'third wave' to help meet increasing energy demand
March 22, 2007
By Paul Elias Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO —
Thousands of corporate executives and scientists gather this weekend in Orlando, Fla.,for an industry trade show specifically aimed at touting biotechnology's so-called third wave, industrial applications. The word on everyone's lips: ethanol. After decades of unfulfilled promise and billions in government corn subsidies, energy companies may finally be able to produce ethanol easily and inexpensively thanks to breakthroughs in biotechnology, says this article.
Read the full news report from here @ Times Argus
March 22, 2007
By Paul Elias Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO —
Thousands of corporate executives and scientists gather this weekend in Orlando, Fla.,for an industry trade show specifically aimed at touting biotechnology's so-called third wave, industrial applications. The word on everyone's lips: ethanol. After decades of unfulfilled promise and billions in government corn subsidies, energy companies may finally be able to produce ethanol easily and inexpensively thanks to breakthroughs in biotechnology, says this article.
Read the full news report from here @ Times Argus
Labels: biofuels, biofuels-events, biofuels-research, biofuels-usa, biotechnology, ethanol, ethanol-usa, events, research
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The inconvenient truth about energy
The inconvenient truth about energy
Mar 25, 2007
Claims from certain quarters of the American left to be genuinely interested in energy independence are ringing hollow. And it is painfully obvious because opposition to just about any kind of energy development comes from, you guessed it ... the left, says this opinion article from The Daily Interlake
Mar 25, 2007
Claims from certain quarters of the American left to be genuinely interested in energy independence are ringing hollow. And it is painfully obvious because opposition to just about any kind of energy development comes from, you guessed it ... the left, says this opinion article from The Daily Interlake
Labels: ethanol-usa, nuclear-usa, politics, problems
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Bush, Lula Sign Biofuels Agreement between USA & Brazil
March 9, 2007 - Brazil and the United States signed a strategic agreement in the promotion of production of ethanol fuel. Brazil is one of the largest producers of ethanol for fuel purposes.
George Bush is currently on a tour of the Latin American countries
George Bush is currently on a tour of the Latin American countries
Labels: biofuels-co-operation, brazil, brazil-usa, co-operation, ethanol, ethanol-brazil, ethanol-usa, usa
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