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- Renewable Fuel Standards Waiver Request by Texas Governor Denied by Feds
  Posted by kellygarst from Feeds.treehugger
  photo by Joe Lencioni A few months ago, citing rising corn prices hurting his state’s livestock industry and which he linked to Federal ethanol-blending requirements, Texas governor Rick Perry filed a waiver request with the EPA to reduce the Renewable Fuel Standards requirement by half. Next Years’ Biofuel Requirement Stays at 11.1 Billion Gallons Today the EPA has announced that is has denied this request. The total volume of biofuels (both ethanol and biodiesel) which are ma...
  
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- Renewable Fuel Standards Waiver Request by Texas Governor Denied by Feds
  Posted by kellygarst from Feeds.treehugger
  photo by Joe Lencioni A few months ago, citing rising corn prices hurting his state’s livestock industry and which he linked to Federal ethanol-blending requirements, Texas governor Rick Perry filed a waiver request with the EPA to reduce the Renewable Fuel Standards requirement by half. Next Years’ Biofuel Requirement Stays at 11.1 Billion Gallons Today the EPA has announced that is has denied this request. The total volume of biofuels (both ethanol and biodiesel) which are ma...
  
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- Biofuel backlash: High prices, pollution worries hit consumers
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  But in the last year, the promise of renewable fuels has lost a lot of its luster. Prices of biodiesel have almost doubled to about $6 per gallon, and many experts blame biofuel production for driving up food prices worldwide. Prominent scientists have questioned whether growing crops for biofuels produces more greenhouse gases than it prevents
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- JS Online: Bay View co-op offers earth-friendly fuel
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  Biodiesel comes to Milwaukee!
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- Fuel Ghoul: Biodiesel In Toronto
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  A trendy Queen St E filling station sells this fashionable fuel to anyone that wants to help make a difference.
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- Biodiesel fuels enthusiasts vowing a 'revolution'
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  If Americans increased average fuel efficiency 5 miles a gallon, there would be no need for Middle East oil -- and no need for an Iraq war, some participants said.
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- Fill It Up With Soybean Oil
  Posted by Jon from New York Times
  describes the author's running his diesel Jetta on soybean oil via a secondary fuel system
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Jeff comments on:
Biofuel backlash: High prices, pollution worries hit consumers

Actually, people are complaining about rain forest being destroyed… just look at the grist mill blog today see grist.org

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Biofuel backlash: High prices, pollution worries hit consumers

If you turn every cob of corn on the planet into fuel, you will have less than 1 quarter of the fuel needs of the US. And we aren’t the only ones driving cars. Brazil is using biofuels, and suddenly no one is complaining about the rain forest being destroyed.

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7:51 pm 6/09/08

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