meehawl

all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned

Category: ethanol

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corn / corporate welfare / ethanol

Corn Welfare

[Brazil] already churns out what many consider to be the world’s cheapest and most efficient mass-produced biofuel … In the United States, a 54 cent-per-gallon tax blocks most Brazilian ethanol from reaching U.S. consumers....

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ethanol / Florida / peak oil / Tampa / water

Heavy Mixer

[Florida’s] first ethanol-production factory put in a request for 400,000 gallons (1.5m litres) a day of city water. The request by US Envirofuels would make the facility one of [Tampa’s] top ten water consumers...

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alcohol / beer / energy / ethanol / EVERYBODY PANIC / peak oil

Peak Beer

Hit by price increases and shortages, many breweries, particularly the small “craft brewers” and the even smaller microbreweries, are being forced to raise prices, make do with modified recipes or shut off the spigots...

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corn / energy / ethanol / food / peak oil

Peak Corn

In 1974-2005 food prices on world markets fell by three-quarters in real terms … Since the spring, wheat prices have doubled and almost every crop under the sun—maize, milk, oilseeds, you name it—is at...