Dave Vander Griend, CEO of ethanol producer ICM (based in Colwich, KS), has a fantastic op-ed published in the Kansas City Star today. Vander Griend begins with talking about the recent manufactured “food or fuel” argument. In the past, the ethanol industry has been blamed for high food prices and environmental damage. Last month, the EPA along with several major universities corrected those misconceptions, stating that ethanol is not the root cause for higher grocery prices. In fact, corn prices have recently fallen sharply despite increased ethanol production. He then goes on to discuss a specific plan ICM has with a local gas station. At TJ Convenience, a mom-and-pop store in Colwich, ICM is kick-starting a program that demonstrates how important ethanol is — to consumers, to agriculture, to the environment and to our nation’s security. At the station, we use special blender pumps to mix fuel on demand to create blends ranging from 10 to 85 percent ethanol. We’ve priced E-10 5 cents below unleaded, and higher percentages of ethanol-enriched fuel are discounted to reflect the subsidy as well as the percentage of ethanol. The piece wraps up with a discussion of ethanol’s merits. Many incorrectly believe that using corn to make fuel means taking food from people’s mouths. Ethanol production merely removes the starch from the corn. Protein and oil are processed into distillers grains, a nutritious livestock feed marketed to feedlots at a price that reduces their feeding cost. Additionally, ICM is perfecting a process that creates additional food-grade products, allowing the most nutritious parts of the corn to remain in the human food supply chain. It is important for consumers to know that ethanol is environmentally friendly too. The United States Geological Survey says it takes 1,851 gallons of water to extract, transport and refine one barrel of oil or 28 gallons of gasoline, compared with three gallons of water to produce one gallon of ethanol from non-irrigated corn. Read Vander Griend’s op-ed with the KC Star here.
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Pacific Ethanol may be emerging from bankruptcy in June 2010, will depend on the plan that was approved by the Board of Directors and reported on SEC Form 8-K, which creates a stronger balance sheet and working capital. The message today sent shares in the Pacific as high as $. 12 per share or 15% of the strong volume. The company produces and sells ethanol and its co-including wet distillers’ grains, and provides transportation, storage and delivery of ethanol through third-party service provider in Western United States. Pacific Ethanol is the holding company, Pacific Ethanol Holding Co., wholly owned subsidiary, which includes transportation, storage and delivery of ethanol through third-party service providers. Ethanol is gaining popularity in its early development until 2002 approved Mid West, such as bio-fuels and fuel additives, and low carbon emission properties. production of ethanol in the U.S. is largely based on corn-based, but not the corn that we eat – maize for animal feed. Business is not as sensitive to price swings in the commodity for that reason, but was high in crushed raw material and the gain of the oil boom and bust of 2007-2009. The demand for biofuels, exploded between 2003 and 2007, such as cheap credit and a low barrier to entry in front of a comprehensive competition skyrocketing oil prices. the oil market and banged subsided, so that the ethanol industry and the demand for buyers idled for more than 25% of the industry and had suffered for more than 10 companies to complete bankruptcy. limited new equity capital and access to capital, particularly in the Pacific crushed, but now we are in a new era of biofuels. The industry has matured in the wake of boom in a bust of the first decade of the new millennium. In spite of the entire sector, leaving the wrong foot, to say the least in the long run, demand and growth in industry seems inevitable. the demand for alternative energy sources boifuels and has grown almost always faster than supply, and federal and state research and development are always interesting to focus on the independence of foreign oil. Maybe even the domestic oil, the previous month, the oil spills from BP sent a shiver through investors, economists, and regulators, needles, and most people, it seems now more than uncover the ever ready, and marketing of alternatives to well-being of American energy consumption and environment. Pacific Ethanol Holding on to Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings on 17 May 2009, while other subsidiaries, Kinergy Marketing LLC, and Pacific Products that sell ethanol, was not forced, then the file. The plants are still operating and the company is further reducing the project development. The plan announced today, has called the possibility of Pacific Ethanol, 25% stake in the production of the acquisition of subsidiaries and the elimination of about $ 290m in debt. It could only be a reorganization of the Pacific, it is necessary again to his feet and at full capacity. Currently, 23 states show especially in the middle of the northeast regions the U.S. invasion of 75-100% ethanol blended gasoline products, and all U.S. states have at least 10% market share. California was the first country in the nation to regulate the C02, the legislature at the beginning of the biofuel ethanol, and credits the company believes it deserves. Pacific owns four operating plants and 42% equity interest in a fifth of all the Northwest area of the United States. oil demand is slowing losing ground since its peak in 1984 and the popularity of low-carbon fuels began in the next millennia a source is considered. That the restructuring of the Pacific ethanol regulated, and the growing demand for biofuels and ethanol in the environment may become increasingly important, the share price back down if it ever was: $ 42 per share related to 6 May 2006.
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How much food that the American ethanol industry produce each year? According to a new analysis of renewable fuels to the American Association for producers of ethanol supplied to 23 million tonnes of animal feed and poultry, the world over the past year, almost three times that of wheat, millet, barley, oats, and cattle in the United States for the marketing year 2007/08. In other words, the amount of feed produced by the ethanol industry in 2007/08 is roughly equivalent to the combined total diet of livestock feed consumed last year in Texas, Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado, the people of the four largest feedlot states.
To read the RFA analysis, “Feeding The Future” is available at: http://www. ethanolrfa. org / resource / reports / #-economic effects
Often overlooked and underreported aspect of the American ethanol industry, significant volumes of high protein, high-energy cattle 171 ethanol biorefineries, with the fuel feed is produced in America. Only two-thirds of every bushel of corn ethanol plants are treated, actually used to produce fuel. The remaining third of the bushel is enhanced and turned into animal feed market, mainly in the form of grains, corn gluten, distillers and corn gluten.
produced in different forms, depending on the technology used in any refinery in the nutrient-rich animal feed are increasingly replacing grain and protein meal for cattle feed rations for dairy cows, pigs and poultry at home and abroad. In fact, about one billion Bushel corn ethanol by-products in feed for 2007/08 displaced by an amount equal to about 15 percent of the total corn used for animal feed.
After XRF analysis of industry data exported corn burner – the most common ethanol feed kaassaadusena – rising more than four million tonnes by 2008, or the equivalent of about 160,000,000 Bushel of maize.
Back to one-third of every bushel of grain for ethanol production, which is used for animal feed market directly affect the com-ethanol corn use. U. S. Department of Agriculture is difficult to assess the 2008/09 marketing year, corn ethanol use at 4th 1000000000 Bushel (ethanol production estimate of coarse grains used for RFA estimates closer 8000000000 Bushel 3rd). If, however, affect the feed industry, minus the corn into ethanol using kaassaadusena USDA estimates, the second Bushel 9000000000 or 23 percent of total grain projected use – much less than the misleading claims of ethanol to the third or more of public corn supply.
“The feed industry by-products of ethanol production is a best kept secret of the industry,” said RFA President Bob in Norway. “The focus of the public, industry, production of fuel ethanol as a renewable alternative to imported oil. But the production of quality feed is also important. Our industry is really the business of food and fuel.”
Since the RFA notes that his new TV ads, which Hereford, TX, the beef capital of the world, a city with ethanol plants for food, fuel and economic development to make the ethanol capital of Texas is Hereford. View GoodFuels ads.
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