Ethanol

McCain's Energy Ignorance

Diane Francis | Posted 07.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Hybrids, Mccain Energy Policy, Oil Dependency, Alternative Energy, Saudi, Environment, Renewable Energy, Conservation, McCain Offshore Drilling, Ethanol, China, Green News
Diane Francis

John McCain foolishly credited the recent $10-a-barrel drop in the price of oil to President Bush's lifting of the offshore drill ban. What's he going to do when prices nudge or jump upwards again?

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Mixing Water Into The Energy Debate

Rob Runyan | Posted 07.24.2008 | Home

Read More: Energy, John McCain, Committee on Science and Technology, Corn Prices, Bart Gordon, Watergy, Corn, Renewable Energy, Energy Security, Texas, Mccain, Congress, Election 2008, The National Water Research and Development Initiative, Policy, Barack Obama, Renewable Fuel Standard, Water, Barack, Energy Independence, Rick Perry, Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, Ethanol, Rfs, Home News
Rob Runyan

Dealing with one sector without thinking about the other is one-hand clapping. That's why we have popular alternative fuels like ethanol that don't factor in the drain on water resources.

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Texas Rebels Against Ethanol, Could Strike Fatal Blow

New York Times | David Streitfield | Posted 07.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Texas, Epa, Fuel, Gas Prices, Biofuel, Farmers, Food, Rick Perry, Ethanol, Crop Prices, Food Prices, Green News

The ethanol industry, until recently a golden child that got favorable treatment from Washington, is facing a critical decision on its future. Gov. R...

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Where's My Orangutan? Why Biofuels Don't Kill Apes

Josh Tickell | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Orangutan, Biofuels, Alternative Energy, Sugarcane, Logging, Conservation, Malaysia, Ethanol, Deforestation, Biodiesel, Soy, Green News
Josh Tickell

The next time you eat a cookie off of your Mahogany table that was brought to you on diesel-fueled transportation, consider this: everything you touch, everything you buy and everything you eat comes at a price.

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Management Problems Wherever You Look

Bob Franken | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Barack Obama New Yorker Cover, Ethanol, Israel, 2008 Election, Politics News
Bob Franken

The "More of the Same with John McCain" campaign continues its uphill ride on the Straight Talk Express. McCain's best hope is is that the Democrats will find some ridiculous way to lose this election.

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Food Fight - A "Vanguard" Special Report

CurrentTV's Vanguard | Posted 07.15.2008 | Green

Read More: High Food Prices, Global Food Crisis, Global Economy, High Oil Prices, Food Crisis, Renewable Energy, Oil Prices, Food, Ethanol, Food Prices, Green News
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End of the Line for Biofuels?

Jeremy Jacquot | Posted 07.07.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Subsidies, Ethanol, Biofuels, Alternative Energy, Biofuel, Renewable Energy, Environmentalism, Green News
Jeremy Jacquot

Rightly blamed for everything from rising food and commodity prices to water degradation and soil erosion, biofuels have seen their cachet plummet in recent months.

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Who Ate My Tortillas? -- The Truth About Food vs. Fuel

Josh Tickell | Posted 07.06.2008 | Green

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Josh Tickell

Corn may be environmentally detrimental, but it is difficult to pin the systemic problems in our international markets solely on biofuels.

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Crop Prices Shutting Down Ethanol Plants -- And Plans

EcoGeek | Jaymi Heimbuch | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green

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Ethanol plants based on food crops are taking a serious hit because of the price hike for grains and the flooding in the Mid-west that has wiped out a...

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Biofuel Feedstocks Latest Candidate: Kudzu

Treehugger | Posted 06.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Biodiesel, Biotech, Ethanol, Biofuel, Kudzu, Biomass, Green News

yes, all of those vines are kudzu. photo via flickr Our colleagues over at Discovery News have brought attention to a new report that an invasive ...

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Obama's Ethanol Support Shared By Many Advisers

New York Times | Larry Rohter | Posted 06.23.2008 | Green

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When VeraSun Energy inaugurated a new ethanol processing plant last summer in Charles City, Iowa, some of that industry's most prominent boosters show...

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"Food vs. Fuel," A False Debate

Josh Tickell | Posted 06.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Biofuels, Food vs. Fuel, Ethanol Pros and Cons, Climate Change, Ethanol, Biofuel Debate, Global Warming, Algae Biofuel, Green News
Josh Tickell

Much of the "Food vs. Fuel" controversy centers on ethanol. Very little ink is given to the other biofuels, especially fuels from non-food sources from new crops like algae.

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What Is The Best Biofuel?

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green

Read More: New Energy Company, Congressional Legislation, Ethanol, Biofuels, Biomethanol, Biodiesel, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

Ethanol and biodiesel are slowly sinking as biofuel options, but the Farm Lobby will ensure that, if we decide to form a methanol producing enterprise, we will have a few years to refine the effort.

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Ethanol Vs. Methanol

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 06.10.2008 | Green

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Patrick Takahashi

Ethanol and biodiesel are dead, long live methanol! Methanol is the simplest alcohol, with one carbon atom; ethanol has two. Thus, given biomass, it should be cheaper to produce methanol than ethanol. Surely enough, in a comprehensive assessment Stone & Webster performed for the U.S. Department of Energy two decades ago, with the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute as an associate, this fact was confirmed.

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Oil Shock: Mexico and China Not Exxon Stupid

Diane Francis | Posted 05.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Shock, British Gasoline Prices, Hillary, Canadian Gasoline Prices, Supply and Demand, Mexico, Commodity Boom, Russia, Oil, Gasoline Taxes, Mccain, India, Ethanol, China, Opec, Business News
Diane Francis

The biggest reason prices have been soaring is that astute investors are now understanding the future supply and demand reality.

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Thomas Friedman's Green Pie in the Sky

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Thomas Friedman, Coal, Ethanol, Big Coal, Students, Green, Sustainability, Energy, Clean Coal, Media News
Jeff Biggers

There are some hard questions from the green movement -- especially on his disingenuous touting of "clean coal" -- that Thomas Friedman has been ducking for too long.

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Greening Hollywood: Bioneers Host Ed Begley, Jr.

Paige Donner | Posted 05.02.2008 | Living

Read More: Green Collar, Water Bottles, Biofuel, Corn, Ed Begley Jr., Food Cost Spike, Greening Hollywood, Itsrecycled, Solar Energy, Environmental, Eco-Improvements, Electric Cars, International Food Policy Research Institute, Bioconverter, Katrina, Low Impact Living, Ethanol, Living Like Ed, Grist, Bioneers, A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life, Living News
Paige Donner

Ed Begley, Jr., resident Rockstar of the Hollywood Green Movement, spoke at last Tuesday's Venice Beach Bioneers meeting held at the Electric Lodge.

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Paper, Plastic, Stainless Steel, or Corn?

Lisa Selin Davis | Posted 04.30.2008 | Living

Read More: House, Green Travel, Corn, Going Green, Green, Environment, Environmentalism, Travel, Boulder Colorado, Ethanol, Green Living, Living News
Lisa Selin Davis

Here's the real problem with corn plastic: it's nearly impossible for the little lone consumer to find.

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Ethanol Production Forging Costly Link Between Food And Oil

Huffington Post | Posted 04.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Global Food Crisis, Ethanol, Biofuels, Business News

Ethanol was once touted (and still is by some) as an effective way to slow global climate change, but that effectiveness is increasingly being questio...

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GasHole: Dirty Oil and the Biofuel Myth

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Environmentalism, Environmental, Ethanol, Biofuel, Biodiesel, Gashole, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

Leaders are forever promising a vigorous campaign of alternative fuel initiatives. GasHole recaps a thirty-year history of alternative fuel promises made by U.S. presidents.

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Earth Day Resolution: No Biofuel from Food Crops

Chris McGowan | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics

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Chris McGowan

Biofuel has a positive role to play, but it will come from its production from agricultural and food waste or from renewable native grasses in areas that are not environmentally sensitive.

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Robert Zoellick's Slightly Tardy Clarion Calls

Sunil Chacko | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lugar, Robert Zoellick, Food Price Rise, World Bank, Rice, Transparency, Corn, Condi Rice, Wheat, Bush Administration, Ethanol, Leahy, Accountability, Senators Bayh, Anti-Corruption, Mismanagement, Cgiar, Politics News
Sunil Chacko

The Bush administration's former deputy to Condi Rice, Robert Zoellick, who currently runs the World Bank, has been making some frantic calls. It is just that they are a trifle late.

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Poor Countries Blame Western Biofuels For High Food Prices

Posted 04.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Ethanol, Food Riots, Rise in Food Prices, Higher Food Prices, Global Markets, Biofuels, Food Prices, Business News

Western countries are feeling political and moral heat from poor countries over their use of biofuels. The New York Times reports: The idea of turn...

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Food Riots Skyrocket, World Leaders Have No Solutions

Wall Street Journal | BOB DAVIS, DOUGLAS BELKIN | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Higher Prices, Finance Ministers, Food Shortages, Food Riots, Robert Zoellick, Commodity Prices, World Bank, Jacques Edouard Alexis, Bio-Fuels, Haiti, Corn-Based Ethanol, Global Food Prices, Ethanol, Global Financial Crisis, Surging Prices, Global Riots, Business News

Finance ministers gathered this weekend to grapple with the global financial crisis also struggled with a problem that has plagued the world periodica...

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Food or Fuel? We Americans Aren't Making Friends

Harry Fuller | Posted 04.07.2008 | Business

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Harry Fuller

We don't have to be the bloated, hated, mistrusted bully. We could conserve. Our great-grandparents did it during World War Two.

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