Biofuel Blowback - Bad Policies aren't just for AmericaPost Date - June 23rd 2008 02:06 pm | 9 days 17 hours ago
Despite a bumper sorghum crop following summer rains, local feedgrain prices of $300/t are twice what they were pre-drought. Cornford says further hikes in feedgrain prices are inevitable because of the biofuel plant, which will need about 250,000 tonnes
Post Date - June 20th 2008 10:06 pm | 12 days 9 hours ago
However, ethanol subsidies create a myopic focus on corn, ignoring the potential for alternatives, and manipulating the market in a way that ensures ethanol’s failure.
Post Date - June 17th 2008 01:06 pm | 15 days 18 hours ago
In Ontario (a net importer of U.S. corn), the combined provincial and federal subsidies last year were about 16.7 cents per litre of ethanol produced. This whopping incentive effectively creates a $64 per tonne subsidy for corporations to import U.S. corn
Post Date - June 10th 2008 06:06 am | 23 days 1 hour ago
Stefan Tangermann said: 'I call urgently for reduced support for biofuels. It is the only lever on which we can act rapidly,' he added during an address to a farm forum in Berlin. Klaus-Dieter Borchardt, a deputy to Mariann Fischer Boel, stressed that the
Post Date - June 10th 2008 05:06 am | 23 days 2 hours ago
America has once again been subject to the biggest criticism at the FAO summit – this time for its policy of vast ethanol subsidies. Well, it is indeed absolutely indefensible ... this grotesque subsidy ... although the ethanol racket was invented by Ge
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