Biofuel Blog War

A report on food prices and the role biofuels have played (and have not played) in the spike of those prices has been recognized for a very prestigious award.
The Farm Foundation report entitled “What’s Driving Food Prices?” released last year has won the 2009 Quality of Communication Award presented by the Agricultural and Applied Economics [...]

According to the Clean Fuels Foundation, a national consumer awareness campaign aimed at owners of flexible fuel vehicles (FFVs) was officially launched at the Farm-to-Fuel Summit. The project is a cooperative effort between key Florida state government interests, gasoline/E85 distributors, ethanol companies, and several nonprofit environmental and energy advocacy groups.
The Florida Farm-to-Fuel Summit provided [...]

National carrier J.B. Hunt has committed to burning algae biodiesel in its semi-trucks.
This post on the FleetOwner blog says that after successfully testing 20 and 50 percent blends of SunEco Energy’s biodiesel, made from algae oil, J.B. Hunt found it reduced emissions by more than 80 percent without any loss of power:
“Producing renewable fuel supplies [...]

The city of Denver is coverting more than 100 trucks and snow plows to run on clean-burning biodiesel.

The Denver Business Journal says the city is getting $700,000 in federal stimulus bucks to retrofit the equipment:
Denver announced Thursday that it had received the “Clean Diesel Conversion” grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The money will [...]

More good news for ethanol. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced up to $30 billion in new load guarantees funded in part, through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and in part through 2009 appropriations. Once again, next generation biofuels projects get an additional boost as the lending authority includes up to $500 million [...]

A new report shows some pretty strong growth in the biofuels market in the next decade, especially in the biodiesel sector.

This article from Biodiesel Magazine says Boulder, Colorado-based Pike Research sees the biofuels market tripling by the year 2020, growing from $76 billion to $240 billion:
“The study started out as an assessment of technologies in [...]

A Colorado biodiesel company has nearly doubled California’s total output of the green fuel.
Denver-based Crimson Renewable Energy has completed a 30-million-gallon-a-year biodiesel and glycerin plant near Bakersfield, California, the largest biodiesel facility in the state. Previously, California had only 34 million gallons a year of biodiesel production:
Crimson’s new Bakersfield production facility can utilize a [...]

Earlier today, Matt Horton, CEO of California based Propel Fuels was featured on CNBC’s “The Tech Effect”.  The title of the piece: Going Green One Tank at a Time. The premise is how air quality officials in Sacramento, California are spending millions so owners of flex fuel vehicles can find gas stations offering environmentally friendlier [...]

The 5th annual AltWheels Fleet Day will be held Monday, October 5, 2009 at Staples World Headquarters in Framingham, MA.
This is a don’t miss event for individuals wanting to understand the latest in alternative transportation technologies, costs, best practices, funding, and fuel options. This is the largest alternative transportation event of its kind [...]

For months the ethanol industry has been working with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to update their calculations of ethanol’s emissions reductions. A victory has finally been achieved as California has updated its calculations of sugarcane ethanol’s emission reductions. The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) welcomed the announcement.
Joel Velasco, UNICA’s chief representative for North [...]