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Biodiesel: Using vegetable oil instead of gas and petroleum

With all the turmoil in the Middle East and Libya gas prices are fluctuating more than the weather. If you have anything that runs on a diesel...
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Bugs booze it up to live

In one of the stranger quirks of evolution ever discovered researchers reported that fruit flies seek out high alcohol (ethanol) food to prevent...
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BP increasing biofuels exposure: buys Tropical Bioenergia for $71 million

This column is presented to the Gulf Coast Recovery Community as a public transparency service from Hank Richards, writer for the nationwide...
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Biofuel production already benefits economy, trade, and deficit

Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilsack told an audience on RFD TV last week that agriculture created $135 billion dollars in exports last year and this...
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Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty seeks end to ethanol subsidies

Former Minnesota Governor, and now Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty, spoke to citizens in the state of Iowa on May 23rd calling for an end to...
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Skepticism in Congress surrounds new EPA rules limiting greenhouse gas

U.S. House Republican leaders are asking the Obama adminstration for more information about potential harms of new Environmental Protection Agency ...
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Energy versus food: Nearly 40% of corn production being diverted to ethanol

In a new look at the distribution of corn output, we are very quickly coming to a crossroads over energy demand versus food demand. Nearly 40% of...
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USDA to allow GMO corn for fuels, not food

  • USDA
  • February 16, 2011
The USDA announced recently that deregulation of Genetically Modified (GMO) corn can go forward to help in the processing of ethanol. The agency...
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Ethanol in gasoline bad for engines and emissions

The Obama Administration has directed the EPA at the behest of corn growing states to allow 15 percent ethanol in gasoline. The EPA staff is...
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EPA allows for 15% ethanol mix

  • EPA
  • October 13, 2010
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today, October 13, 2010waived a limitation on selling fuel that is more than 10 percent ethanol for...
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