Xethanol Corporation is looking for a grant from the state of Florida to make ethanol from citrus waste. According to a company release, Xethanol subsidiary Southeast Biofuels LLC has filed a grant application with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to expand the company’s work on converting waste to energy, using citrus waste as the raw material and …
Florida Biofuels Boost
New proposed motor fuel rules for Florida could be just the ticket to boost ethanol blends in the country’s third largest gasoline market. Reuters reports that the proposed rules are the result of a hearing held in October at the urging of the ethanol industry and several oil companies to relax the state rules that had discouraged refiners from adding …
Make Ethanol New Year’s Resolution
The American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) also voiced concern about oil reaching $100 a barrel for the first time this week. ACE Executive Vice President Brian Jennings said, “For the sake of the nation’s economic health, our New Year’s resolution must be to put the brakes on this costly and risky reliance on oil and accelerate our use of domestically …
New POET Plant Opening
POET Biorefining – Leipsic will host a grand opening ceremony January 10 to mark the beginning of ethanol production. This facility will be the first operating ethanol plant in the state of Ohio and POET’s 22nd ethanol production facility. Among the speakers scheduled to kick off the new plant are Renewable Fuels Association president Bob Dinneen, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland …
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 …
Oil Hits $100 a Barrel
Crude oil prices broke the $100 a barrel barrier for the first time today on rising concerns over violence in Nigeria. Light, sweet crude for January delivery rose $4.02 to $100 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, before slipping back to $99.48. Robert White, interim head of the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council, says higher oil prices translate …
Farm Bureau: Renewable Energy Big in ’07
Among the stories seen as significant to the American Farm Bureau in 2007, renewable energy ranked right up there with the new Farm Bill and issues with migrant workers in the fruit and vegetable crop fields. And this column from Farm Bureau says ethanol and biodiesel will be in the headlines for years to come: Energy products including ethanol-blended fuels …
Indy Vettes
History will be made at the 2008 Indianapolis 500 when not one, but two distinctive vehicles will serve as the official pace cars. Chevrolet and Indianapolis Motor Speedway officials gathered at the Indianapolis Auto Show Thursday to make the announcement. One of the pace cars is a customized Corvette Z06 E85 concept that runs on E85 ethanol fuel that will …
Missouri Ready for E-10 Requirement
Missouri is prepared for a law requiring a ten percent ethanol blend to kick in next week. According to an article in the Kansas City Star, most of the gasoline sold in Missouri already being blended with ethanol. The law “sent a tremendous signal,” said Gary Marshall, chief executive officer of the Missouri Corn Growers Association, and E-10 now meets …
Tennessee DOT Giving Grants to Promote Biofuels
Tennessee’s Department of Transportation plans to hand out $1 million in grants to help promote biodiesel and ethanol at gas pumps along the interstates in Tennessee. This story in the Chattanooga (TN) Times Free Press says one of the first Green Island Corridor grants is going to a station in Cleveland in the southeast part of the state: Tom Robertson, …