<div id="subtitle">"Move to phase two:" Governors in Philadelphia talk of moving beyond corn-based ethanol</div><div><p>Governors from the coal fields of West Virginia to the corn fields of Iowa talked Sunday at their summer meeting about moving beyond ethanol produced just from food sources.</p>< ...
<div><p>With mandates and incentives from the Federal Government, ethanol production has surged in the last couple of years, with the alternative fuel seen by many as an answer to dependence on foreign oil.</p><p>But as ethanol production has risen this year, so has ...
<div id="subtitle">Corn Prices Jump to Record $6 a Bushel, Driving Up Costs for Food, Alternative Energy</div><div><p>Corn prices jumped to a record $6 a bushel Thursday, driven up by an expected supply shortfall that will only add to Americans' growing grocery bill and ...
<div id="subtitle">Novozymes will invest up to $200M in enzyme plant to prepare for ethanol boom</div><div><p>Novozymes will double its investment in a new enzyme plant in Nebraska up to $200 million, so the Danish company will be ready for the ethanol boom that ...
<div id="subtitle">Congressional estimate: Ethanol could cost government $900 million on nutrition programs</div><div><p>Food stamps and child nutrition programs are expected to cost up to $900 million more this year because of increased ethanol use.</p><p>Higher use of the corn-based fuel additive ...
<div><h1> AGAINST THE GRAIN </h1><p>Even before oil prices collapsed, Patricia A. Woertz had one of the most delicate balancing acts in business. Now things are getting downright precarious.</p><p> As chief executive officer of Archer Daniels Midland, the world's largest grain processor, Woertz ...
<div id="subtitle">Federal grants hope to jump-start the evolution of cellulosic ethanol after a tough year</div><div><p>Cellulosic ethanol, the next big hope for a biofuels industry hampered during the past year by volatile commodity price swings and shrinking profit margins, is continuing its slow ...
<div id="subtitle">Project Means 140 Jobs, $250 Million Investment</div><div><p>SEBRING - A Massachusetts-based company committed Thursday to building the country’s first cellulosic ethanol plant in Highlands County. <p>Verenium Corporation, headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., announced plans to produce 36 million gallons of ethanol per year ...
<div><p>Just a year after Petrobras, Brazil's state-controlled oil company, predicted Brazil would triple its annual ethanol output to around 70 billion liters by 2020, the market appears to be slumping. Falling global oil prices are making Brazilian ethanol less competitive, while a ...
<div id="subtitle">Bill Gates was an early investor</div><div><p>Ethanol stocks have been getting pounded since their IPOs and the sector has lost its luster. Pacific Ethanol (NASDAQ: PEIX, Stock Forum) was the exception for a while as it has Bill Gates as an investor ...
