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Louisiana Light • 4 days | 91.16 | -0.74 | -0.81% | ||
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Bonny Light • 3 days | 95.60 | -0.40 | -0.42% | ||
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Opec Basket • 4 days | 95.01 | -0.81 | -0.85% | ||
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Mars US • 2 days | 88.73 | -0.10 | -0.11% | ||
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Gasoline • 2 days | 2.562 | -0.058 | -2.22% |
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Bonny Light • 3 days | 95.60 | -0.40 | -0.42% | ||
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Girassol • 3 days | 96.55 | -0.49 | -0.50% | ||
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Opec Basket • 4 days | 95.01 | -0.81 | -0.85% |
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Peace Sour • 3 days | 84.13 | -0.03 | -0.04% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 3 days | 84.63 | -0.03 | -0.04% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 3 days | 93.23 | -0.03 | -0.03% | ||
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Central Alberta • 3 days | 84.13 | -0.03 | -0.04% |
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Eagle Ford • 4 days | 86.11 | -0.65 | -0.75% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 4 days | 86.00 | -0.75 | -0.86% | ||
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Kansas Common • 4 days | 80.00 | -0.50 | -0.62% | ||
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Buena Vista • 5 days | 95.23 | -0.92 | -0.96% |
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Alternative Energy / Biofuels
UK Biomass: Savoir or Destroyer?
Taking effect April 2015, all biomass-fired power generators in the UK will have to prove that they are doing more good than harm or face government funding cuts.
Switchgrass Fuel: Bush Wanted It, Obama Gets It
The idea of using switchgrass to produce biofuels was brought up by former US president George W. Bush in his 2006 State of the Union address, which was received with…
Why the Advanced Biofuel Industry is Struggling
Ask and Ye Shall ReceiveLast week, The Economist posed the following question: “What happened to biofuels?” The biofuels in question are so-called second generation biofuels that…
Algae Produces more Fat for Biofuels when Starved
Algae cells make fat quickly, a finding that means they could hold promise as a sustainable, environmentally sound source of oil.Algal lipids from microalgae are one of the…
New Biofuel Created from Bacteria and Fungus
By throwing together a common fungus and a common bacterium, researchers are producing isobutanol — a biofuel that gallon-for-gallon delivers 82 percent of gasoline’s heat energy. The more common…
Algae Creeps Slowly Towards Viability
Right now algae is simply too expensive to produce—and the process uses more energy than we get back. But by around 2017, with more money being dumped into research, we…
How Much is Too Much Ethanol?
The heat is on for ethanol, as the oil industry lobbies the Obama administration to lower the ethanol-gas mandate for 2014, but the folks in Iowa, for one, want to…
Sky’s the Limit – Aviation Biofuels About to Take Off?
For the past decade, commercial production of jet biofuel has become of major interest to international airlines.Renewable Jet A-1 biofuel has two alluring aspects.First, it is…
Genetically Engineering Jatropha Plants for Large Scale Production
Scientists have identified the first step toward engineering a more drought-resistant variety of Jatropha, a potential biofuel plant.Jatropha has seeds with high oil content. But the oil’s potential…
A Biofuel Cell that Uses Fungus to Generate Cheap Electricty
In a new concept for biofuel cells Sabine Sané, doctoral candidate in the research training group Micro Energy Harvesting at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) of the University…
Biofuel Breakthrough? Marine Organism can Provide Food and Fuel
Researchers at the University of Bergen and Uni Research of Norway hatched an idea that sounds too good to be true: a common marine species that consumes microorganisms and…
Oil Industry Works Hard to End the E15 Fuel Blend
I just finished reading a story that made my blood boil. It was about how the oil industry is using dirty tricks to keep the ethanol industry in check. I…
New Enzyme Technology Allows more Ethanol to be Produced from Less Corn
A new enzyme technology allowing the corn ethanol biofuels industry to produce more ethanol with less corn while saving energy and improving profits was announced yesterday. The technology is…
This Week in Energy: The Ethanol Debacle Heats Up
The ethanol debacle heats up ahead of summer; mini nuclear reactors get a boost; Urgent Note for subscribers: Sorry for butting in at the start of…
Exxon’s $100m Algae Investment Falls Flat
Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) is cutting its losses on algae biofuels after investing over $100 million only to find that it couldn’t achieve commercial viability. Earlier this…
Investment Boost for Next Generation Biodiesel Project
Japanese-based Itochu Corp., Texas-based Benefuel, and Flint Hills Resources Renewable LLC have launched a joint venture to produce biodiesel fuel from inedible feedstocks in Nebraska, targeting production of 50 million…
Waste Wood: Norway Taps into a Huge Source of Biomass Fuel
Norwegian senior scientist Øyvind Skreiberg is transforming the chopped-off branches and tops of felled spruce trees into a fine powder that is then pressed into high-energy pellets. The transformation…
Producing Diesel on Demand from Modified Strain of E. Coli Bacteria
A team from the University of Exeter, with support from Shell, has developed a method to make bacteria produce diesel on demand. Sounding a bit like science fiction the…
CBO Set to Assess the Use of Ethanol Blends
I got a laugh reading this one from the CBO (Link).The cost of the…
Big Numbers, Big Profits: The Fleetingly Lucrative RIN Trade
Renewable energy credits, or RINs, are one of the hottest things on the energy market right now because they are making up for a shortfall of refining capacity to blend…
