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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 86.79 | -0.77 | -0.88% | ||
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 85.43 | -2.61 | -2.96% | ||
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Opec Basket • 3 days | 88.72 | +0.00 | +0.00% | ||
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Mars US • 181 days | 77.26 | -1.51 | -1.92% | ||
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Gasoline • 10 mins | 2.581 | +0.003 | +0.13% |
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 85.43 | -2.61 | -2.96% | ||
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Girassol • 1 day | 86.37 | -2.70 | -3.03% | ||
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Opec Basket • 3 days | 88.72 | +0.00 | +0.00% |
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Peace Sour • 7 hours | 72.20 | -2.93 | -3.90% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 7 hours | 75.25 | -2.93 | -3.75% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 7 hours | 82.20 | -2.93 | -3.44% | ||
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Central Alberta • 7 hours | 72.60 | -2.93 | -3.88% |
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Eagle Ford • 2 days | 78.41 | -0.70 | -0.88% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 78.25 | -0.75 | -0.95% | ||
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Kansas Common • 2 days | 72.25 | -0.75 | -1.03% | ||
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Buena Vista • 3 days | 87.60 | -1.22 | -1.37% |
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Alternative Energy / Biofuels
Biofuel News: Research Moving away from Algae to Seaweed
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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…
Algae Fuels Coming Under Pressure
The conventional route to biodiesel consists of extracting oil from plants and converting it to the methyl esters of fatty acids that are present in the lipid-components, known as triglycerides.…
The Massive Potential of U.S. Biofuels
More than 80% of total agricultural production in the United States is used to feed animals, not human beings directly; Our analysis shows that the US can produce very large…
Rising Ethanol Prices and the Lessons to be Learned
I thought it was a bit humorous recently — when corn ethanol prices dipped and were cheaper than both sugarcane ethanol and gasoline (even when adjusted for lower energy content) …
The Great Ethanol Boondoggle
One of my biggest disappointments with Obama so far is his continued support of the ethanol boondoggle. The program was ramped up by the Bush administration to achieve energy independence…
Biofuel Sector in African Land Grab
EU biofuel targets are driving a “land grab” in Africa, according to a report by Friends of the Earth. The report, Africa: up for grabs, released on Monday, says…
A More Rational Approach to Ethanol Policy
In my recent post Thoughts on an Ethanol Pipeline, I described what I feel would be a more rational approach to ethanol policy than some of the policies that…
The Future Looks Great for the Ethanol Boondoggle
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