Biofuels

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  • Sub-Saharan dilemma: Food vs. fuel or radioactive waste?

    Or both? In Senegal, fossil fuel shortages are forcing government leaders to explore every option.
  • The Seven Commandments of Mexican ethanol

    Follow these rules and you will get social justice, a healthy environment and renewable energy. It's easy!
  • Brazilian ethanol: Too cheap to meter

    Brazil's president, Lula, appears on Charlie Rose, and suggests rich countries should treat biofuel imports as "reparations"
  • Where has all the wheat gone?

    Global inventories of the grain are plunging and prices are surging. Is the biofuel boogeyman to blame?
  • Bill Richardson on greening SUVs

    The presidential candidate says there's no need for Americans to choose between their love for monster cars and saving the environment.
  • The future of the world is nuts

    Corn? Soybeans? It's time to put away yesterday's biofuel feedstocks and bow to a new contender: The incredibly oleaginous hazelnut.
  • Biggest. Corn harvest. Ever

    But Monsanto says we can do much, much better. So how exactly will the company repeal the laws of corn physics?
  • Food versus fools

    The price of corn is on the rise, the price of sugar is in decline. So which one makes more sense as a biofuel feedstock?
  • How many bottles of Chianti does it take to fill up a BMW?

    Europe has too much wine. But does converting the excess into biofuel make even drunken sense?
  • Cellphone charger totalitarianism

    What do Chinese government policy toward cellphones and corn-based ethanol have in common?
  • A margarita made with ethanol

    First, the biofuel industry came for my tortillas. But then, my tequila? And my beer? Is the apocalypse nigh?
  • Oil companies: High gas prices are Bush's fault

    The president's ethanol push is discouraging the industry from investing in new refinery capacity, executives say. What does the White House think of that?
  • From the Iowa plains to the Amazon jungle

    Which is the bigger threat to Brazil's rain forest: Locally grown sugar cane, or American corn?
  • Hurricane ethanol

    Who's the culprit in Japan's fruit juice price hikes? Florida weather or Brazilian sugar cane?
  • When the invasive species met the illegal immigrant

    How to simultaneously achieve border control and energy independence, with the help of a "noxious weed"
  • How Portugal screwed up Brazil

    First there was a sugar rush. Then a gold rush. Both left unsightly scars on the history of Brazil. What will the ethanol rush bequeath?
  • Lords of the dirt

    All hail the soil scientist: the future of humanity is crumpled in their hands
  • The legislators of corn

    Michael Pollan is optimistic that the time has come to remake the farm bill. Has he been to South Dakota lately?
  • The biofuel scramble for Brazil

    If the foreign investment in the Brazilian ethanol industry constitutes a new "Great Game," who might end up the loser? A lesson from Afghanistan.
  • Much ado about tortillas and ethanol

    But is the real villain here biofuels? What about trade rules written at the behest of multinational agribusinesses?
  • What does universal health care have to do with ethanol?

    Robert Rapier, the blogosphere's most dedicated crusader against corn-based biofuel, gets sick in Scotland
  • Down on the biodiesel farm

    John Deere, the tractor manufacturer, can't get enough of that biofuel love.
  • Why Monsanto loves ethanol

    Biofuel demand is boosting sales of the latest biotech crop products.
  • Jorge W. Bush visits "the neighborhood"

    Talking that "free trade" talk, the president heads to Brazil to pump up ethanol. Why would anyone doubt his sincerity?
  • "Switchgrass is cool, dude"

    A House hearing on energy development shockingly features politicians asking experts substantive questions about ethanol and peak oil.
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