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Louisiana Light • 4 days | 85.01 | +5.14 | +6.44% | ||
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Bonny Light • 2 days | 88.16 | -1.48 | -1.65% | ||
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Opec Basket • 3 days | 92.76 | +2.49 | +2.76% | ||
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Mars US • 1 day | 77.49 | -1.94 | -2.44% | ||
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Gasoline • 1 day | 2.370 | -0.033 | -1.37% |
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Bonny Light • 2 days | 88.16 | -1.48 | -1.65% | ||
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Girassol • 2 days | 87.96 | -1.44 | -1.61% | ||
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Opec Basket • 3 days | 92.76 | +2.49 | +2.76% |
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Peace Sour • 2 days | 75.48 | -0.92 | -1.20% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 2 days | 76.78 | -0.92 | -1.18% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 2 days | 85.73 | -0.92 | -1.06% | ||
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Central Alberta • 2 days | 75.08 | -0.92 | -1.21% |
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Eagle Ford • 3 days | 77.71 | -0.92 | -1.17% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 3 days | 77.75 | -1.00 | -1.27% | ||
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Kansas Common • 40 days | 84.00 | +3.50 | +4.35% | ||
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Buena Vista • 4 days | 92.66 | +6.24 | +7.22% |
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Alternative Energy / Biofuels
Biofuels Production and Magic Bullet Thinking
Using marginal lands not suitable for food crops, 50% of the world's liquid fuels can be produced, according to U. of Illinois scientists. Published in the ACS journal Environmental…
Creating Jet Fuel from Biomass Waste
First British Airways, and now Qantas are teaming with the Solena Group to build commercial plasma gasification and Fischer-Tropsch plants to create synthetic jet fuel from carbonaceous biomass waste. Solena's…
The Issues with Corn Ethanol
Brian Westenhaus, over at New Energy and Fuel, has been telling me what a good product corn ethanol is. He is very familiar with raising corn for ethanol, and can…
Everyone is Lying About Ethanol
Let’s start with a lie, albeit most likely the lowest level of lie, everyone is lying about ethanol. It has gotten so that the lies are pervasive, even such that…
Major Breakthrough for Seaweed Biofuel
Getting biofuel supplies from seaweed has taken a giant leap forward from work by Yong-Su Jin, a University of Illinois Assistant Professor of Microbial Genomics and a faculty member…
Why Sugar Beets are Preferable to Corn for Ethanol Production
focusing on beet ethanol makes sense for a number of reasons. Green Vision’s figures show that beets produce twice as much ethanol per acre as corn and require about 40…
Could the Farmland Bubble be about to Burst? What Will this Mean for Corn Ethanol
There’s another bubble blown up and ready to pop. Its farmland all across the U.S. priced off the chart. For the alternative fuel future this is an extreme danger moment,…
Biofuel News: Research Moving away from Algae to Seaweed
It’s coming – research interest is moving toward seaweed from algae. For algae enthusiasts, keep in mind that technically speaking common algae is micro algae and seaweed is macro algae. …
Biofuels and Sugar Production – The cure for Petroleum Addiction
So far the best use of CO2 whether as a fuel use byproduct or already in the atmosphere is get it back to a simple sugar. From there the sugar’s…
Are Ethanol Producers Exporting Taxpayer Subsidized Ethanol
Ulterior Motives Behind the Ethanol Pipeline? Ethanol producers in the Midwest have lobbied for support to build a pipeline to ship their ethanol to the East Coast. As I…
Reality Check for the Miracle Biofuel Crop Jatropha
The hardy jatropha tree as a biofuel source may not be the panacea for smallholders that some have claimed, say Miyuki Iiyama and James Onchieku. It sounds too good to…
New Generation Biofuels in India
Sustainable biofuel production strategies and second-generation options involving woody biomass and tall grasses that do not need additional land can help India realise its green targets, a review says.
Gasoline from Corn Cobs for $1 a Gallon?
GE Energy, a GE subsidiary, has jumped into the advanced biofuels race by throwing in $8 million with the startup CoolPlanetBiofuels. The startup claims to be able to produce a…
U.S. Ethanol Production Nearing One Million Barrels Per Day
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports for August that U.S. ethanol production rose in August to an all-time high, production averaged more than 869,000 barrels per day (b/d). The Renewable…
Biofuels: Is Palm Oil a Blessing or a Curse
People sometimes ask which biofuels are competitive head to head with crude oil. By competitive, I mean those that can actually compete favorably with oil prices on a level playing…
Algae Biofuels Dealt a Blow by BP funded EBI
The Energy Biosciences Institute -- funded by a $500 million grant from oil giant BP -- has released a "technoeconomic" report meant to cast a discouraging pall over the future…
Turning Grass Into Fuel
Researchers at the University of Illinois have completed the first extensive geographic yield and economic analysis of potential bioenergy grass crops in the Midwestern United States. It’s the best work…
UK Joining Europe on Biogas Strategy
The European Union has a major drive to turn all kinds of waste into energy, particularly from biogas. There are two main incentives for this, the first being the geological…
Artificial Cells and Fuel Production from Algae
In the latest issue of "Chemistry World" is a report describing "the first synthetic cell". What has in fact been done is to insert a chemically synthesised genome into a…
Algae is the Next Big Thing in Biofuels
The Earth is 70% covered by salt water. It makes sense to utilise the saltwater marine environment to produce feedstocks for fuels, chemicals, plastics, and other materials. Biofuels from…
