Not to sound like a lunatic but it may be entirely possible, maybe even likely, the American public will be begging for a return to $3.60 gas in the near future. I know it sounds crazy, but if you are following the public debate you can already see the discussion heating up to argue the true implications of today’s bargain …
Study Shows How Big Oil Rigs the System in St. Louis
Big Oil continues to rig the system. Using its stranglehold on infrastructure, it uses pricing strategies to edge out ethanol at the detriment of consumers’ pocketbooks and the environment. A study recently conducted by the Renewable Fuel Association in the St. Louis area highlighted this point quite clearly. The study looked to see if anti-competitive pricing strategies were being employed …
Big Oil Labels Family Farmers Extremists
A true David and Goliath battle is under way between the nation’s family farmers and Big Oil in the form of the American Petroleum Institute (API). And farmers in recent weeks bounced a big rock off the head of the petroleum behemoth. At issue is American ethanol. For months the oil industry has been involved in a well-funded campaign of …
Fight Back Against Big Oil’s Big Plan
This week, American drivers mark a strange milestone as they have now paid an average of more than $3 per gallon for gas for 1,000 straight days. AAA says the prices are here to stay. Staring at the sky, pockets already emptied as paychecks haven’t kept up with inflation, frustrated commuters continue to ask, “Can’t anyone save us?” Look toward …
Support Fuel Freedom in 140 Characters or Less
What happens when you give people a choice in what they purchase? The market goes to work. Recently, the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association released data indicating that E85 sales jumped an impressive 43 percent in the second quarter of the fiscal year. With reports of a strong corn crop driving prices down, consumers with flex fuel vehicles are choosing to …
Iowa Governor Brings Benefits of Biofuels to Beltway
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad publicly made the case for the Renewable Fuel Standard and for introducing higher ethanol blends into the market in an eloquently penned opinion piece that ran in the Washington-centric publication Politico. Citing examples of how biofuels have benefited his state and looking toward the future of the industry, Branstad issued this appeal to logic at a time when …
Yard Work Just Got More Green
It’s sporty, it’s fuel injected, it’s green and it’s powered by ethanol. If you are thinking NASCAR™ race cars that’s a good guess but you would be wrong. Because in this case the equipment in question is literally green…as in covered in the well know green and yellow paint of John Deere tractors, combines and lawn equipment. And unlike …
Auto Technicians Get Ethanol Message
The ethanol industry reached out to auto mechanics and technicians from around the country last week at events held as part of Automotive Service and Repair Week (ASRW) in New Orleans. The Renewable Fuels Association, Bobby Likis Car Clinic Network and Ricardo Engineering teamed up to bring that message on the trade show floor of the Congress of Automotive Repair and …
Why Listen to Experts When You Can Form Your Own Gossip-based, Politically-Motivated Opinion?
For those looking to the government for cues on ethanol, Thursday must have been awfully confusing. While senators were sipping happy hour cocktails and congratulating themselves on a symbolic, politically-motivated vote attacking ethanol, the Department of Energy was rewarding innovative students for finding ways to improve fuel consumption and emissions in American-made cars. The same day that senators bemoaned the …
Raising Corn Can Lower Fuel Prices
With gas prices on the rise, farmers are helping ease the pain at the pump for consumers across the United States. Ethanol is currently priced roughly 80 cents less per gallon than gasoline. In these rough times, even the relatively minor cost savings that the 10 percent of ethanol blended into the average tank of gas offers are a welcome …