biofuels_rss.aspxThe latest headlines and articles from Checkbiotech(c) 2007, Checkbiotech. All rights reserved.5By Venita JenkinsFarmers looking for cheaper fuel can learn how to make their own.http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=179135/15/2008By Harry de Gorter and David JustNew U.S. energy legislation mandates the use of renewable fuel but calls for continuing current biofuel subsidies that will cost taxpayers billions of dollars. The subsidies - tax credits - by themselves encourage ethanol production as a replacement for oil-based gasoline consumption. Instead, the tax credits will play a major role in unintentionally subsidizing gasoline consumption. This contradicts the new energy bill's stated objectives of reducing dependency on oil, improving the environment and enhancing rural prosperity.http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=179125/15/2008By Joji Ilagan-BianWith crude oil prices breaching the $120-a-barrel barrier, many of those in the fuel industry have started looking at alternatives.http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=179115/15/2008German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for rainforest protection in Brazil as well as cooperation with the country on biofuels during the first day of her first Latin America tour.http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=179105/15/2008Neste Oil has launched its 10% biodiesel blend in Finland this month.http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=179095/15/2008By Val Brickates KennedyBOSTON (MarketWatch) - U.S. chemical giant DuPont and Danish industrial biotechnology leader Danisco A/S said Wednesday that they have teamed up to launch a new joint venture aimed at developing technologies to produce ethanol from plant sources not used for food.http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=179075/15/2008By Martin LaMonicaThe trash-powered car may someday see the light of day. CleanTech Biofuels is developing a multistep process designed to take municipal solid waste from a transfer station and turn out ethanol on the other side. http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=179145/15/2008During a U.S. House hearing last week, corn ethanol took a beating from lawmakers who bemoan rising food prices. Some, including presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain, are even asking the Environmental Protection Agency to cut this year’s requirement for 9 billion gallons of corn ethanol in half to ease food prices.http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=178965/14/2008By Susanne Retka SchillBarley-based ethanol may soon be a reality in the Southeast. In early May, Osage Bio Energy LLC announced a $300 million commitment from First Reserve Corp. to fund the construction of four barley-based ethanol plants. The financing package is currently under development for the first 55 MMgy plant planned for Hopewell, Virg., according to John Warren, the company’s investor relations manager. “We’ve been keeping under the radar,” he added, “trying to avoid NIMBYism [not in my backyard opposition.]”http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=178925/14/2008By Jonathan StarkeyRichard Stadheim, a fourth-generation farmer, grows crops on about 3,200 acres in Albert Lea, Minnesota. This year, he will split that land about evenly, as he did last year, between soybeans and corn. As global demand for food and for biofuels inputs has climbed, prices for those crops have skyrocketed, making growing them financially satisfying for the first time in years.http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=178935/14/2008