ETHANOL BUSINESS

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

Stock and Land: While the Australian ethanol industry is a mere shell of the vision predicted in 2004-05, the American industry has received a much needed boost in the form of support from new US President Barack Obama. President Obama’s support for the US ethanol industry should flow through to Australian... 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

Bloomberg: The U.S. Energy Department has published a book celebrating its national laboratories as “the single greatest scientific enterprise in the world,” a conclusion challenged by clean-energy advocates. The 149-page, hard-cover glossy book is being released today, two weeks before the end... More

Cleantech Group: As Democrat Barack Obama handily won the U.S. presidency Tuesday night, cleantech insiders began projecting corn-based ethanol, carbon trading and transportation as winners too. Obama and John McCain were both considered as having favorable policies toward cleantech, said Neal Dikeman,... More

Reuters: Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Wednesday that if elected he would eliminate the tariff on sugar cane-based ethanol and cut a number of subsidies for ethanol. “I would eliminate the tariff on imported sugar cane-based ethanol from Brazil,” McCain said in a televised... More

Canada Free Press: The issue of the nation’s financial and economic security is likely to dominate the November 4 election. Earlier in the campaign cycle we might have assumed that foreign affairs and energy would be uppermost on the minds of voters, but we’re told that, ultimately, voters vote their... More

Columbia Daily Tribune: Maybe you think I’ve lost my mind, linking ethanol and abortion, but I do have a point, to wit: Sometimes we oversimplify our contentions about controversial subjects. Sometimes in the heat of battle we fail to recognize nuances that can make all the difference. Thus, as this... More

KELOLAND TV: While many South Dakotans are cheering the launching of the McCain-Palin ticket during this week’s Republican National Convention, it’s the “other” business of the convention that has upset the state’s ethanol industry. A plank in the Republican Party’s... More

Farm Futures: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision not to cut the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) by half was a “watershed decision for the United States of America,” said Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer during a tour of the Farm Progress Show held in Boone, Iowa. Schafer... More

Houston Chronicle: Few government programs have had more unintended and damaging consequences than subsidies for corn-based ethanol and mandates for its use as a motor fuel. Unfortunately, the leadership of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, largely indifferent to environmental protection in recent... More

Washington Post: It seems every candidate has his favorite energy subsidy. Or two. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has favored setting a minimum goal of 60 billion gallons for ethanol of all kinds, derived from corn and cellulosic materials such as grasses or wood chips. That’s twice the current target... More