Biofuels – Jan 28
Mexico grapples with soaring prices for corn – and tortillas
US corn exports may fall as ethanol use rises
As corn price rises, so could food bills
Biofuel trade disadvantages poor nations
Biofuels
Biofuels – 28 Jan
Brazils president urges US to invest in biofuels in poorer countries
Understanding the corn ethanol EROI divide
US corn exports to fall as ethanol use rises
As corn price rises, so could food bills
Expanded Biofuel Production Expected to Drive Up Food Prices
Biofuels and U.S. policy – Jan 26
Professor: Bush’s dangerous energy proposal
Krauthammer: a serious plan requires taxes, ANWR and nukes
Chicken industry issues warning
Feed costs rising: meat groups want study
Food & agriculture – Jan 26
O, pioneers in Pasadena (urban homesteading)
Heinberg predicts a local food renaissance
BBC: Eat like an ape, get healthy
British supermarkets going green
Deconstructing dinner: thought for food
Food or fuel in future?
Bush’s SOTU – rhetoric and reality on energy
Post Carbon: The danger of a few little words
Switching to snake oil
Bush’s bogus cure for our oil addiction
NY Times: Energy rhetoric, and reality
American way of life still not up for negotiation
U.S. energy policy – Jan 25
Bodman: U.S. veeds more ethanol imports
Energy research on a shoestring [energy lab underfunded]
Be careful what you wish for: the politics of cheap oil
U.S. and biofuels – Jan 24
Contradictions seen in alternative energy plan
Ethanol production booming on demand
WaPo: Blindness on biofuels
Springtime for ethanol
Biofuels – Jan 21
Mexico feeling effects of ethanol boom
Corn soars, Mexico sets price limits
Analysts predict ethanol to power higher grain prices
Mexico caps tortilla price
Sweet dreams (local ethanol with sweet potatoes)
Ethanol Q & A
We received so much e-mail about last week’s article on using corn to produce ethanol that I was actually humming the whiskey-drinking Georgia Tech fight song to myself.
U.S.: ethanol – Jan 15
Ethanol debate: Kammen vs Patzek
New gov. envisions Iowa as the energy capital of the world
Ethanol boom to evaporate corn surplus
Corn rockets, triggers trading limit
Pig farmers, ethanol don’t mix
Farmers and biofuels – Jan 14
The farmer is the man [and woman] – report from Kentucky
Out-of-control burn-your-food-for-fuel policy
Biofuels boom pinches the world’s poorest
Investing in ethanol
From a national security standpoint, large-scale ethanol production from corn will not make the nation more secure in any measurable way. It will certainly destabilize the nation’s food supply and disrupt traditional export patterns.