Media

Report : Oil Prices Dictated By Speculators

  • Wednesday, 18 February 2015 00:00

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.

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.

Vilsack Says Biofuels Have A Bright Future

  • Wednesday, 04 March 2015 00:00

In a recent interview with FuelFix, Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack, said the biofuels industry has a bright future ahead.

E85 Sales Grew In 2014

  • Friday, 06 March 2015 00:00

Sales of E85 in Minnesota grew 3 percent in 2014 despite fewer stations offering E85.

Gevo Sells Renewable Jet Fuel To Nasa

  • Tuesday, 10 March 2015 00:00

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.

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.

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.

No Excuse For Shoddy Journalism

  • Friday, 13 March 2015 00:00

After reading the USA Today’s editorial which attacks the ethanol industry baselessly, one wonders what has happened to journalistic standards.