Sweet Louisiana: Forget corn-based ethanol — the South tries a sweeter alternative
The Ecogeek blog takes a look this week at Louisiana Green Fuels, a group that plans to make sugar-based ethanol: Over...
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“It’s a crisis for this country”: T. Boone Pickens on U.S. energy policy
Billionaire oil investor T. Boone Pickens (reportedly worth around $3 billion, and the country’s highest paid...
Senator Cornyn whacks ethanol in the blogosphere
Senator John Cornyn, R.-Texas, has written a post for a Texas blog — Panhandle Poet — on why he wants to...
What’s behind the food price hikes?: International agencies say biofuels a “significant factor”; ethanol makers respond
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)...
Ag Secretary: U.S. biofuels not cause of world food shortages
On Thursday, May 29, Agriculture Department Secretary Ed Schafer said skyrocketing oil prices make biofuels all the...
Ethanol to blame for rising price of … movie tickets?
First it was tortillas. Now it’s movie tickets. The price of movie tickets is expected to go...
Ethanol and the corn we eat: Also: The impact of corn prices on Texans
There are some interesting new statistics about how much of the corn grown in the United States is directly consumed...
John McCain signs on to bill that would lower ethanol mandate
Legislation introduced this week by Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican, would cap U.S. corn-based ethanol...
Cellulosic ethanol gets a boost from Detroit
A car company in search of a new fuel that doesn’t rely on corn? That’s the story according to a joint...
Why Switchgrass?: Panicum virgatum and American energy policy
On Wednesday of this past week, the Department of Energy (DOE) released a report — first prepared and published...