However, solar, wind power and biofuels have all been economic disasters, and they have not reduced carbon-dioxide emissions. Biofuel production has dramatically increased greenhouse-gas emissions. The price of food continues to climb as we turn corn ...
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2013-05-20 06:35:58
The U.S. ethanol industry, not long ago booming, is in decline. Rising commodity prices have hurt, as has a trend toward folk driving less; there's just not enough gasoline out there to blend the ethanol into. That's a big part of the backstory that makes the ...
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2013-05-20 10:01:44
After a drought, record-high corn prices and plant shutdowns, ethanol producers say 2013 has to be better.
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2013-05-19 21:18:12
When the factory she worked at closed down, Tammy Thomas reinvented herself as a community organizer; and when Dean Price's truck stop business went belly up, he became a champion of biofuel. In a new book, George Packer examines how ordinary people are adapting to a new America.
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2013-05-19 05:06:14
The European Union will impose punitive duties on imports of biodiesel from Argentina and Indonesia, charging them with selling the product into the bloc at unfairly low prices, EU sources said.
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2013-05-18 18:24:35
Geothermal energy is hands down THE best renewable energy avenue out there: The Earth is always generating heat, and there won't be any “peak heat”, nor could we ever extract this energy at the same pace with which the Earth generates it. The process ...
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2013-05-18 07:56:50
1 because of a slowdown in the economy, high corn prices and low oil prices that reduced ethanol consumption. AGP stated Friday in a news release that it would be permanently shutting down the corn processing operation. Matt Caswell, vice president of ...
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2013-05-18 00:03:17
The cost of wholesale gasoline has skyrocketed almost overnight due to reported oil refinery shutdowns, but Todd Sneller, administrator of the Nebraska Ethanol Board, said the spread between ethanol and gasoline also widened by as much as 85 cents per gallon.
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2013-05-17 20:22:55
The cost of wholesale gasoline has skyrocketed almost overnight due to reported oil refinery shutdowns, but Todd Sneller, administrator of the Nebraska Ethanol Board, said the spread between ethanol and gasoline also widened by as much as 85 cents per ...
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2013-05-17 20:00:53
The Domestic Alternative Fuels Act of 2013 (HR 1959) was introduced in the House of Representatives this week proposing to allow energy and fuel industries to use alternative feedstocks (such as ethanol derived from natural gas) to satisfy their obligations ...
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2013-05-17 17:21:17
Prices for wind energy in Brazil, currently the lowest in the world, may rise at least 15 percent due to government policies designed to make the nation's power grid more reliable.
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2013-05-17 12:34:48
THE EU will impose punitive duties on imports of biodiesel from Argentina and Indonesia, charging them with selling the product into the bloc at unfairly low prices. The European Commission has set provisional tariffs at between 7 and 11% for imports from ...
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2013-05-17 11:05:28
As solar costs continue to fall, most of the focus has been on the declining price of photovoltaic (PV) panels. However, the panels themselves represent only a portion of the overall price for getting a system successfully installed and flowing electrons.
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2013-05-17 08:25:27
Pannónia Ethanol , a Hungarian producer of ethanol fuel, lodged a complaint with the European Commission last year after price reporting agency Platts denied it the opportunity to contribute to setting prices, Bloomberg said.
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2013-05-17 04:44:03
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