Biofuel Blog War

Christmas cookies helping you grow your spare tire a little more this season? Well, you could get that fat sucked out and made into biodiesel to power your green ride.
According to this article from Forbes, for a time, Beverly Hills doctor Craig Alan Bittner was turning the fat he liposuctioned from patients into biodiesel [...]

In a previous post, I told you how I felt that with all the holidays and the bowl game season how this was truly the most wonderful time of the year. Unfortunately, it leads into the most DREADED time of the year… tax time. The end of the year means that lots of [...]

According to AgWeb, $1.518 million in grants will be given to retailers and terminal operations for the installation of E85 and biodiesel fuels. The announcement was made by the Renewable Fuels Infrastructure Board (RFIB).
Fifteen E85 and thirteen biodiesel retailers in Iowa will be granted the funds. This will include the first biodiesel blender [...]

The U.S. military has inked a pair of deals worth about $35 million to develop biodiesel made from algae.
Cleantech.com reports two San Diego companies will work on the fuel to be used by the U.S. Army and Air Force:
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) signed a $14.9 million deal with Science Applications International to [...]

For the first time in its history, the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association is being led by a biodiesel producer. And, another biodiesel producer is the group’s vice president.
This story from Biodiesel Magazine says Denny Mauser, with biodiesel producer Western Iowa Energy, has become president of the IRFA, and Nile Ramsbottom, with biodiesel producer REG [...]

Three universites in Connecticut will share more than $900,000 in state grants to test biofuel quality as well as to study different production methods and feedstocks, and another $2.2 million in grants will go to four biodiesel production facilities to help leverage at least $6 million in private investment.
This press release from Gov. M. Jodi [...]

An increase in taxes on biodiesel in Germany is expected to decrease that country’s production of the green fuel. But since Germans’ appetites for biodiesel are unlikely to be lessened, an American company sees the tax hike as a chance to move into the large European market.
This press release from Global Earth Energy, Inc. [...]

Got a reminder in my e-mail today about the upcoming National Biodiesel Conference & Expo, Feb. 1-4, 2009, in San Francisco.
There will be a ton of things to see and do, ranging from hearing Grammy- and Oscar-winning singer Melissa Etheridge talking about how biodiesel has inspired her… to information on the sustainability efforts being made [...]

GreenShift Corporation has announced it has received a $38 million investment to produce 20 million gallons per year of biodiesel from corn oil, squeezed from the corn used in ethanol plants.
This release posted on MarketWatch.com says GreenShift use the money to build twelve corn oil extraction facilities and to expand the capacity of GreenShift’s NextDiesel [...]

The National Biodiesel Board continues to like what it sees when it comes to the incoming Obama Administration.
The primary advocacy group for the green fuel sent out congratulations to former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack to serve President-elect Obama as the next U.S. Secretary of Agriculture:
Following the announcement, Joe Jobe, the CEO of the National Biodiesel [...]