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Louisiana Light • 3 days | 87.12 | +0.03 | +0.03% | ||
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 89.32 | +0.45 | +0.51% | ||
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Opec Basket • 3 days | 86.51 | -1.01 | -1.15% | ||
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Mars US • 174 days | 77.26 | -1.51 | -1.92% | ||
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Gasoline • 11 mins | 2.751 | +0.017 | +0.63% |
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 89.32 | +0.45 | +0.51% | ||
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Girassol • 1 day | 89.90 | +0.45 | +0.50% | ||
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Opec Basket • 3 days | 86.51 | -1.01 | -1.15% |
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Peace Sour • 6 hours | 76.01 | -0.55 | -0.72% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 6 hours | 79.06 | -0.55 | -0.69% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 6 hours | 86.01 | -0.55 | -0.64% | ||
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Central Alberta • 6 hours | 76.41 | -0.55 | -0.71% |
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Eagle Ford • 3 days | 79.33 | -0.29 | -0.36% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 6 days | 79.75 | +0.50 | +0.63% | ||
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Kansas Common • 2 days | 73.50 | +0.50 | +0.68% | ||
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Buena Vista • 3 days | 87.02 | -0.29 | -0.33% |
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Alternative Energy / Biofuels
Exxon’s Big Bet On Algae Biofuels Is Crumbling
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Turning California’s Biggest Liability Into A Biofuel Boom
In California, there is a debate heating up over whether dead trees should be cleared and burned for biofuel before they burn where they are in yet another…
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Trump’s Corn Crisis Is Back
A bipartisan group of two dozen U.S. Senators sent a letter to President Trump, urging him to reject the demands of the oil…
Oil Crash Could Destroy Global Biofuels Market
This month’s unprecedented oil crash has sent shockwaves through the entire energy industry and beyond. It’s even gotten to industries that, in theory should be dancing on oil’s…
Does Exxon Know Something About Biofuel That Its Peers Don’t?
Oilprice has been reporting on the long, drawn-out death of the dream of algal biofuel for years. A field once crowded with startups and hyperbolic promises of industry…
Shell Aims For Dominance In $325 Billion Aviation Fuel Market
Shell thinks aviation fuel will be one of the critical growth areas to explore, as ground vehicle transportation fuel and other segments are expected to decline over time. One of these…
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The Uncomfortable Truth About Biofuel
Earlier this month, France’s constitutional court upheld a law cutting palm oil from the country’s list of approved biofuels and eliminating associated tax exemptions. The court rejected an appeal by French…
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Big Oil Baffled By Trump’s Flip Flop On Ethanol Policy
Facing possible impeachment, President Trump is trying to patch up his badly damaged relationship with American farmers. On Friday, the Trump administration announced its latest proposal that comes as a…
Trump Prepares ‘Apology Package’ For Disgruntled Farmers
President Trump will soon unveil his plan for corn and ethanol producers, a kind of apology package after upending the market for ethanol in a recent decision that favored oil…
The Ugly Truth About Biofuels
It is a truth (almost) universally acknowledged that the world needs to stop consuming so many fossil fuels--and to do so in a big hurry--if we are to have any…
Trump Scrambles To Win Back Angry Farmers
The Trump administration is scrambling to repair its relationship in farm country, which has long been a faithful political constituency of the President. But after being hit on multiple fronts…
Why The Midwest Should Protect The Ethanol Market
Today I want to conclude the recent series of articles on ethanol. Previous articles in this series were: Ethanol Industry In Free Fall Since President Trump’s Inauguration
The Fatal Flaw In The Ethanol Industry
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Energy Storage Boom Goes Into Overdrive
Continuously falling battery costs, and rising capacity and usage of clean energy are set to result in booming global stationary energy storage over the next two decades, which will require…
Is Algal Biofuel A Lost Cause?
Last year, forbes denounced seaweed-based biofuel across the board in a strongly titled article called “An Algal Biofuel Obituary”. The article was a send-up of the many biofuel startups…
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By combining an unorthodox solvent and a genetically engineered bacterium, a team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts has discovered a groundbreaking method for producing biofuels…
