The 2008 North American International Auto Show in Detroit will feature vehicles using a variety of green fuels, including ethanol, biodiesel, hydrogen, and fuel cells. This story from The Auto Channel says when the public comes in to the annual gathering on January 19th-27th, 2008, they’ll see more clean fuels more than ever before: Going green is no longer a …
SD Gov Calls for Tax Cut on Biodiesel
South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds is calling for a two-cents-a-gallon cut to the state’s motor fuel tax on biodiesel. This story posted on the KMEG-TV (Sioux City, IA) web site says it’s a plan to encourage the production of biodiesel: The governor announced the proposed tax cut today during his annual State of the State speech to open the 2008 …
McCain’s & Clinton’s Alternative Energy Stands
Last week after Sen. Barack Obama and former Arkansas Mike Huckabee posted wins in the Iowa caucuses, I posted their renewable energy stances from their web sites. Now, as it looks like Sens. Hillary Clinton and John McCain have posted wins in their respective Democratic and Republican primaries in New Hampshire, I wanted to give you their stands on alternative …
State Grant Helping Move Biodiesel Plant to PA
Binghamton, NY-based Alternative Fuels, Inc. is looking at putting a biodiesel plant in Northeast Pennsylvania after the state has come up a $1 million grant to help the refiner make biodiesel out of algae. This story in the Wilkes-Barre (PA) Times Leader says the company has several options where it could relocate, and company officials seem pretty serious about the …
NY Grocer Goes Green on Delivery
New York City area online grocery delivery service FreshDirect is switching its delivery trucks to biodiesel. The gourmet food deliverer says it will get its fuel from locally-based Tri-State Biodiesel. According to this press release from Tri-State, FreshDirect is starting to convert its 150 delivery trucks this month to run on B5 biodiesel: Starting in the fall, FreshDirect began donating …
Biodiesel, Algae Makers Merge
Utah biodiesel maker Better Biodiesel has announced it will buy GeoAlgae Technologies (GAT). The Arizona-based GAT makes inexpensive feedstock for the production of biodiesel. This story on C|Net News’ Green Tech Blog says it will give the biodiesel producer a chance to recover from a devastating fire this summer: The buyout is Better Biodiesel’s first public news since announcing this …
Butter Sculpture To Become Biodiesel
The centerpiece of the Pennsylvania Farm Show will be turned into green energy. This story in the Centre Daily Times (State College, PA) says the show starts tomorrow (Saturday), and a 900-pound butter sculpture of a cow and a school bus with three children boarding the bus made for the eight-day show will be recycled into biodiesel: The sculpture will …
Obama’s and Huckabee’s Biofuels Stands
Well, it looks like Iowans have chosen Illinois Senator Barack Obama and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee as the top vote-getters in the Democratic and Republican caucuses in the Hawkeye State. While there’s still a lot of election left to go with all of the rest of the country’s primaries and caucuses still up for grabs, Iowa is many times …
Imperium Cancels IPO Plans
The biggest biodiesel producer on the U.S. West Coast has withdrawn a plan to have an initial public offering (IPO) that could have raised more than $345 million for several biodiesel plants across the country. This story from Reuters says officials with biodiesel giant, Imperium Renewables out of Seattle, Washington, has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to withdraw …
As Ethanol Mandate Starts in MO, Biodiesel Requirement Proposed
Missouri’s requirement to have all gasoline contain at least 10 percent biodiesel started on January 1st. And now, there’s a proposal in the legislature to make a similar mandate for biodiesel. State Sen. Bill Stouffer’s (R-Napton) SB 759 would require all diesel fuel sold in the state would contain a biodiesel blend by April 1, 2010: fuel terminals in Missouri …