Showing posts with label ethanol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ethanol. Show all posts

Ethanol Gets Teabagged

thumbnail Senators Coburn and DeMint have corn ethanol subsidies in their sights. The environmental case rests on a thin reed indeed. I'm hoping t...

Gen. Wes Clark lobbies for ethanol

thumbnail Wesley Clark, retired general and one-time presidential candidate, once headed Wavecrest, a company that produced an awesome electric bike. ...

Ethanol blues

thumbnail NY Times reports : As recently as last summer, plants that make ethanol from corn were sprouting across the Midwest. But now, with motorists...

Sandia Labs Researcher Says Electric Makes More Sense

thumbnail Sandia Labs Researcher Ben Cipiti has penned a short piece entitled An Unbiased Approach to Evaluating Transportation Fuels in which he exto...

Everybody Happy: Bush to Sign Do-little Energy Bill

thumbnail The opening line of the Detroit News story says all you need to know: The House approved a stripped-down energy bill Tuesday and sent it to...

Ethanol Boom Busting

thumbnail Check out today's NY Times story Ethanol’s Boom Stalling as Glut Depresses Price. ...the ethanol market is suddenly plagued by a glut, i...

Arnold Flexing for Flex-Fuels; Fouls Air & Guzzles More Gasoline

thumbnail As I read in the San Jose Mercury News about California's flex-fuel fleet fiasco. a near silent electric trolley bus passes by my windo...

Freedom from oil in Brazil

thumbnail International Herald Tribune reports: Brazil stages raid against debt slavery at Amazon sugar cane-ethanol plantation

Consumers Want Plug-in Hybrids, Industry Survey Finds

thumbnail Synovate Motoresearch presented some very interesting survey results at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference in Long Beach, CA last w...

Gasoline, Ethanol, Crude Oil Up in Price

thumbnail AP reports: Gasoline futures rose 3.31 cents to settle at $2.1918 per gallon on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Meanwhile, alternative fu...

Bush Uses Alternative Fuels

thumbnail An imperiled attorney general, an unpopular war, a hung-over housing market and a presidential approval level of 32 percent: White House off...

Why Not Ethanol? Yet Another Reason

thumbnail The case for ethanol, if not the funding , is wilting on the vine. Scientific American points out the problems in " Is Ethanol for the ...

Investors Daily: Pull the Plug on Ethanol

thumbnail Investors Business Daily posted an editorial this week, Just Plain Fuelish , that just plain gets it. A smorgasbord of research alternative...

Tortillas and Ethanol

thumbnail Corn and petroleum course through our veins. As Michael Pollan convincingly argues in The Omnivore's Dilemma , what we eat has become a...

Out of the Closet? Is the Saab BioPower a Plug-in Hybrid?

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In Stockholm and LA it was just the BioPower 100, a 100% ethanol fueled hybrid. A premature press release identified it as a plug-in, but th...

Toyota President's New Year's Letter

thumbnail Toyota released (and EVworld.com reprints ) President Watanabe's New Year's letter to employees. He mentions continued focus on hyb...

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