In the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: “To gauge Wall Street’s opinion of ethanol, look no further than VeraSun Energy. Of the 19 analysts who have recommendations on the stock, five had “buys,” two had “sells” and 12 recommended holding it. What gives? Analysts’ views on VeraSun have as much to do with their expectations for the corn ethanol industry as with the company itself.
Katie Fehrenbacher in Earth2Tech, “10 Things to Know About Biden and Energy: “The future of federal energy policy is looking bright — Barack Obama chose Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden as his vice president this weekend. Biden has a three-decade senate record that includes a solid history of establishing climate change and energy policies.”
Erwin Jones, president of Jamaica Ethanol Processing: "All of the feedstock we process and export as anhydrous ethanol is Brazilian sugarcane ethanol. The value of bulk ethanol as rum is almost two ti...
With the selection of Senator Joe Biden of Delaware as Sen. Barack Obama's running mate, the comprehensive energy policy outlined by Biden here takes on new significance. During the recent Democratic ...
Sen. Joe Biden announced his updated energy and climate change policy. Among his proposals: mandating that all new vehicles in the US be flex-fuel; requiring large gas station chains to add alternativ...
At the World Economic Forum, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt: "Is it logical or even acceptable that agricultural crops are used to produce ethanol, leading to a worse crisis in food prices?"
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US Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer: "Things have become apparent that while ethanol production ... is a factor in increased (food) prices, it's not the driving factor. Energy, and increased consum...
Fred Weiss, a carbon offset seller based: "People still come to the site, but where you used to get people signing up [for offsets] every day, now you’d be lucky to get a few people a week: [people ...
