A Peter D. Hart poll concluded that 57 percent of US consumers rate energy issues as “very serious”, higher than concerns about schools, job security, the mortgage crisis or global warming, and behind only the war in Iraq and heath insurance costs as key issues this year.
51 percent of consumers said that investment in alternative energy is the best way to solve the problem, while 28 percent selected energy efficiency and 17 percent said more domestic drilling for fossil fuels.
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In Missouri, John Deere announced a new corn-for-ethanol delivery contract insurance that would supplement existing crop coverage for farmers. John Deere executives said that the new insurance coverag...
In Missouri, the United Soybean Board released results from a survey in which 82 percent of consumers said that high fuel prices are to blame for food prices, not US farmers. The “National Agricultu...
The US Conference of Mayors released a "Current and Potential Green Jobs in the U.S. Economy" report that projected 1.5 million new jobs by 2038 in the alternative fuels sector. The report projected 1...
In South Dakota, KL Energy announced that it has been able to increase its overall glucose recovery rate by 56% per dry ton of wood while simultaneously reducing its enzyme rate by 22%. Testing for gl...
Rabobank has published a new study titled "US Ethanol" predicting that more than 200 ethanol plants will be online by the first quarter of 2009. This is an increase of 91% since the beginning of 2006....
