BP (BP) Invests in Cellulosic Ethanol Written By: Miranda Marquit 2008-08-07 11:41:52 BP (BP) is one of those Big Oil companies that has invested a great deal of advertising money into convincing people that it is diversifying in the name of the earth (you know, "beyond petroleum"). BP seems especially interested in biofuels. The company has been known to invest in jatropha, as well as biofuel ventures in various countries.
Cold Midwest Spring is a Harbinger of Hunger Written By: Jeanne Roberts 2008-05-28 12:17:07 Here in the upper Midwest temperatures have remained low, and nighttime temperatures are still falling into the frost range, a weather pattern that seems ominously persistent as spring approaches with slowly greening trees, and the absence of sunshine and fallow cornfields.
Ethanol Consolidation: Let the Games Begin Written By: Mark Bershatsky 2007-11-29 14:11:31
As we have reported in the past, the ethanol industry is undergoing
some extended hardships and ethanol players' margins will
be squeezed as the sector works through these trying times. Since summer,
we have seen oversupply plague the industry and the price of corn continues to
rise. If ethanol was indeed going to replace gasoline and be the fuel of the
future, changes needed to happen first.
