Open Fuel Standard: Putting the Free Market to Work in the Interests of National Security.
While domestic energy policy is not a silver bullet, it can help extricate the United States from foreign entanglements that have long confounded American decision-makers. History’s painful lessons offer us the power to move our elected officials to act in the interest of renewed economic vitality and national security. From the tragedy of U.S.-Middle East relations is born opportunity.
Ethanol Rises as Report Shows Signs of Increased Blending Demand – Bloomberg.
Ethanol futures rose a seventh day in Chicago, extending the longest winning streak in three months, after a government report showed increased demand for the biofuel.
“The drop in gasoline stocks lent some support to ethanol,” said Matt Janney, a trader at Citigroup Global Markets Inc. in Chicago. “Ethanol stocks were off, too. It seems to be getting good support.”
Corn Hugger » Blog Archive » Not so costly corn.
It’s amazing how misinformation can spread these days with nothing other than uneducated opinions and easy-to-blame targets. This seems to be especially true in regards to our rising food costs and assumptions of what’s driving up those costs. Some media blast ethanol production and high corn prices as the reason for your growing grocery bill but those claims simply lack the facts.
First things first. According to the USDA, only 11.6% of every dollar spent on food goes back to its origins, the farm. The very place where our food is raised holds a very small percentage of what determines its retail price.
Secretary Chu Signs Off on Two New Loan Guarantees to Develop Alternative Energy.
To support the development of two alternative energy projects, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded loan guarantees to both Abengoa Bioenergy US Holding, Inc. and SoloPower, Inc. that, combined, amount to nearly $331 million.
Obama sets sights on making U.S. No. 1 in alternative energy. Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s Republican presidential candidacy and President Obama’s comments on ethanol have thrown the corn-based ethanol industry into turmoil as it struggles to convince Congress to provide assistance to build blender pumps.
Jigar Shah on the Barriers to Energy Innovation – By Reihan Salam – The Agenda – National Review Online. Shah isn’t advocating deregulation per se. Rather, he is calling for an approach to regulation that emphasizes openness to alternatives. It’s not obvious that this is the right approach, but it does represent a difference in emphasis from Browner.
Borrowing from the Communists to Pay the Jihadis – Clifford D. May – National Review Online. The debt crisis, chronic high unemployment, the tumbling stock market, the credit downgrade — these are — fairly obviously — symptoms of an economy in distress. We might disagree about the best policy responses. But perhaps we can agree on the worst: Borrow massive amounts of money from the Communists who want to diminish us and transfer that wealth to the jihadis who want to destroy us. Surprise: That long has been U.S. government policy. Both Democrats and Republicans have endorsed it and, so far at least, it remains in place.
This reality was driven home last week when China’s rulers, who sit on at least $1.16 trillion in U.S. Treasury securities, scolded “debt-ridden Uncle Sam,” instructing Washington that “the good old days when it could just borrow its way out of messes of its own making are finally gone.”
Dreeyer: Ethanol is step toward independence || OnlineAthens.com.
Ethanol represents our best domestically produced alternative to foreign oil. Ethanol is cheaper — studies show ethanol reduces gas prices by as much as 35 cents a gallon. And it is cleaner — grain ethanol reduces harmful emissions by at least 59 percent.
According to the most recent report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, ethanol is more energy-efficient to produce than gasoline refined from oil. The study showed that for every 1 BTU required for ethanol production, 2.3 BTUs of energy are produced.
Joule cites progress on its ethanol technology from Business Updates. A Cambridge company developing technology to make ethanol more efficiently said today that it has been granted two key patents by the US Patent and Trademark office.
Joule has made significant progress toward its goal of finding a way to to produce 25,000 gallons of ethanol per acre, according to spokeswoman Felicia Spagnoli.
Ethanol Producer Magazine | EthanolProducer.com. The Renewable Fuels Association announced Aug. 1 that it will provide free EPA-approved E15 labels to gasoline marketers as part of its campaign to assist in making higher blends of ethanol available to consumers. The labels, which have a market value of about 75 cents each, will be required on all pumps dispensing E15 when the fuel becomes certified for sale later this year.
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