E85 sales slump

I spotted this in today’s news. It is telling us that motorists are counting their pennies before fueling up.
“The U.S. ethanol industry has been staggered by high corn prices, low wholesale ethanol prices and the credit crunch. Major producers such as South Dakota-based VeraSun Energy Corp. went bankrupt.
Minnesota sales of E85 fell 52 percent from [...]

Biodiesel Fuels a Company’s Path to Ruin

Rising soybean prices put an end to BioEnergy of America
By João-Pierre Ruth
3/17/2008
 

The unfinished plant was expected to produce 80 million gallons of biodiesel a year.
EDISON—The fate of a New Jersey company has become an object lesson in the economic shortcomings of biodiesel, a renewable alternative to petroleum-based products that has been hailed as a [...]

Biofuels not the whole answer

I spotted this and was surprised to read the conlusions. With everyone jumping on the biofuel band wagon, this view is loaded with a good dose of reality.
Ecologist: Biofuels only part of energy solution
By Alex Paul
Albany Democrat-Herald
CORVALLIS — If every acre of farmland in the United States was devoted to the production of corn, soybeans [...]