ETHANOL BUSINESS

Huffington Post: How gracious of OPEC to invite Brazil to join its ranks as was reported earlier this month by “Veja”, Brazil’s weekly newsmagazine. A cautionary note. Please Brazil beware! Probably no existing organization casting worldwide influence has achieved the level of opprobrium... More

Quad City Times: President Barack Obama has weighed in on the request to raise the cap on the amount of ethanol that can be blended with gasoline. Ethanol groups have asked that it be raised from 10 percent to 15 percent. Earlier, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said he liked the idea of an increase,... More

CNNMoney.com: Brazilian state-run energy giant Petroleo Brasileiro (PBR), or Petrobras, said Tuesday that it has started the production and sale of gasoline blended with ethanol at service stations in Japan. The first delivery of so-called E3 fuel, which is gasoline mixed with 3% sugarcane ethanol, was... More

The Market Oracle: Robert Bryce writes: For years, the US has been inundated with claims that it should follow Brazil’s lead on biofuels. These arguments have largely been made by a small, but influential group of neoconservatives who claim that the US should quit using oil altogether. They claim... More

Natural News.com: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has a lofty goal. By 2030 he wants his country of Brazil to be the world’s largest biofuel supplier. Brazil wants to supply the world with cheap ethanol from their sugarcane. Many consider ethanol to be the answer to global warming.... More

Biofuels International: Brazil exported a record-high 5.16 billion litres of ethanol fuel in 2008, up 45.7% from 2007, the Ministry of Mines and Energy reports. The amount of ethanol fuel exported in 2008 was over two times higher than the exports of petrol made by state-owned oil giant Petrobras in... More

istockAnalyst.com: According to ANBA: Representatives of Masdar group, a state-owned clean energy company in Abu Dhabi, showed interest in the Brazilian biofuels experience during the country’s participation in the World Future Energy Summit, which took place in the emirate this week. “All... More

Brazzil Magazine: An assorted alliance of organizations published an open letter [1] this Thursday, January 15, in the U.S. and internationally, warning of the dangers of industrially produced biofuels (called agrofuels by critics). The letter explains why large-scale industrial production of transport... More

CattleNetwork.com: The corn market, and to an arguable extent, the soybean and wheat markets, have been a function of the demand for ethanol and the US renewable fuels policy. That policy sets annual targets for ethanol production and keeps in place a subsidy for fuel blenders and a tariff that make... More

istockAnalyst.com: According to ANBA: In 2008, Brasil consolidated itself as the world’s leading ethanol exporter and third largest biodiesel market, with the entry into operation of six new biodiesel plants and another 29 for ethanol, 18 of which integrate the Growth Acceleration Programme (PAC)... More

AFP: Ethanol sales for 2008 for the first time are outpacing those of gasoline in Brazil, a top ethanol producer, the National Petroleum Agency reported Tuesday. The figures only take into account sales of hydrated ethanol that can be used in its pure form in most cars in Brazil, and not anhydrous ethanol... More

MercoPress: Brazil’s giant oil and gas corporation Petrobras has plans to open next year its first service stations in Japan to promote the distribution of ethanol, of which Brazil is the world’s second leading producer, according to a report from O Estado de Sao Paulo. Petrobras already operates... More