The first blender pumps were installed in South Dakota nearly two decades ago, thanks to a helping hand from a South Dakota man and others.
Measuring current U.S. gasoline demand can be difficult, as there are 160,000 retail gasoline stations and more than 250 million vehicles in the country. However, ethanol blending offers a proxy to measure gas consumption.
ECI has begun the registration process to offer E15 to 2001 and newer vehicles in the Cedar Falls/Waterloo area in Iowa. "After reviewing the economics, offering E15 to 2001 and newer vehicles just makes sense for us," said Terry Grant of ECI.
Petitions have been filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th circuit, requesting a rehearing en banc with regard to a recent ruling that determined that California's low carbon fuel standard program does not violate interstate commerce laws.
Butanol has a new ASTM International standard, intended for blends with gasoline at 1 to 12.5 percent volumes to be used as an automotive spark-ignition engine fuel. The new specification, ASTM D7862, covers three butanol isomers.
Brazil has made great strides in increasing its total energy production, particularly oil and ethanol. In a recent analysis, the U.S. Energy Information Administration noted that Brazil is the eighth largest energy consumer in the world.
The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association has released new testing data from vehicles driving in the real world that demonstrates Big Oil's earlier Coordinating Research Council testing on E15 has no real world implications.
The Renewable Fuels Association and Growth Energy are disputing the results of a new poll released by the American Petroleum Institute, calling the data biased and deceptive. The poll was conducted by Harris Interactive.
A representative of Big Oil recently made an offensive and ridiculous comment about the RFS.
Brazil's Agricultural Trade Office has filed its annual biofuels report with the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service's Global Agricultural Information Network, providing ethanol production, supply and demand forecasts for 2013 and 2014.
U.K.-based Element Energy recently published a report finding that biofuels offer a more cost-effective way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next 17 years, when compared to electric vehicles. The report was commissioned by BP.
The Global Renewable Fuels Alliance, along with F.O. Licht and (S&T)2 Consultants Inc. released their Global Annual Ethanol Production and Global Green House Gas Emission Reduction Forecasts, predicting ethanol production to reach 85 billion liters.
Twenty-four new stations began offering E85 in the last week. News of these new E85 stations come on the heels of a study that finds expanded E85 consumption could meet future 2014 and 2015 renewable fuel standard (RFS) mandates.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., has issued a letter to Gary Gensler, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, requesting an investigation of possible manipulation of the markets for renewable identification numbers (RINs).
Six gas stations in North Dakota now offer consumers E15, making it ninth in line among the states that offer the higher ethanol blend. "We are committed to offering our customers choice at the pump," says Kent Satrang, CEO of Petro Serve USA.
Online exclusive contribution: Employing a spatial econometric model illustrates and quantifies the impact of an ethanol plant on the area corn market.
Considering the prospects for the corn and ethanol markets ahead.
Rick Tolman examines stereotypes, praises NASCAR as industry spokespeople and pushes for a 300-bushel national yield average, as head of the National Corn Growers Association.
Stepping back to compare the agricultural boom of the 1970s to the current period brings new perspective to the discussions swirling around food, fuel and the environment.
While ethanol has been cheaper than gasoline on a per-gallon basis for several years, ethanol's lower energy content often meant that consumers paid more per mile when using E85. However, recent price drops have brought E85 close to parity with gas.
Five years in, the impact of federal energy legislation on commodity and retail food prices is measured.
India-based research firm RNCOS has published a white paper on the global biofuel market that finds global biofuel production in 2012 grew at the fastest rate in the Asia Pacific region of the world, where production increased by 17.6 percent.
A new report from the International Energy Agency takes a global overview of biomass use in the industrial and transport sectors, identifying leading countries and the top 15 production companies in each sector.
After surveying more than 1,000 U.S. citizens, Fuels America released its polling results, which discovered 82 percent of U.S. citizens support the availability of E15 ethanol blends at their local gas stations.
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