Blogging For Biofuels
A proposal by a group of U.S. House Representatives to stop the U.S. Department of Agriculture funding for blender pumps and promoting ethanol exports has been labeled as a measure to "strenghten the death grip on the U.S. ethanol industry" by ethanol and ag groups.
Making E15 the new regular in eight states would reduce CO2 equivalent (CO2e) emissions annually by a staggering 3.76 million metric tonnes, according to analyses by the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Following our announcement on the potential CO2 savings that could be achieved in Minnesota if all gasoline sold in the state was E15, Fuels America has followed up with similar analyses for Iowa and Wisconsin.
Over the past few weeks, the ethanol industry has been the subject of a barrage of attacks from various quarters.
E15 sales in Minnesota totaled a record 167,039 gallons in January this year as more stations began offering E15.
RFS reform is the sort of thing you expect to hear from Big Oil and its cohorts (EWG, Action Aid and other frivolous organizations) but not from a group that supposedly represents the advanced biofuels industry.
After reading the USA Today’s editorial which attacks the ethanol industry baselessly, one wonders what has happened to journalistic standards.
On March 10, the New York Times carried an op-ed titled, "End the Ethanol Rip-Off." As one can deduce from the title, the op-ed contained many false statements on ethanol. Media Matters for America has revealed that the op-ed's author, Robert Bryce, has close ties to the oil industry.
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Englewood, Colorado - Gevo, Inc has sold renewable alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) fuel to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for aviation use at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, OH.
Sales of E85 in Minnesota grew 3 percent in 2014 despite fewer stations offering E85.
In a recent interview with FuelFix, Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack, said the biofuels industry has a bright future ahead.
A new report by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows how high RIN prices from November 2014 to January 2015 kept ethanol prices cheaper than gasoline despite record low prices for the latter.
Consumers may have noticed in recent days that the price of gas been inching up. But according to a Bloomberg View report, the recent upward swing has little to do with supply or demand.
Murphy USA has plans to bring E15 to a select number of its stations in Chicago and Houston this year, the company said in a statement today.
Corn use for ethanol production in the 2014/15 marketing year will account for 22 percent of total corn supply, according to the USDA's latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates.
Barely weeks after an attempt to alter the RFS fell through in the Senate, four Congressmen have offered up their own version of an equally-ludicrous bill that seeks to eliminate the use of corn-based ethanol.