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Biofuel Begins to Attract As Crude Oil Prices Fluctuate (AllAfrica.com) When Ghana's Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama visited Thailand at the beginning of September this year, he was fascinated by that country's level of technological advancement in biofuel generation. According to media reports including that of the Ghana News Agency, the Deputy Director of the Royal "Chitralada" Projects, Ms Rosarin Smitabhim told the Vice President that Thailand would be switching to the use of bio-diesel and gasoline next year. Profiting in Biofuels (Kiplinger.com) The ethanol boom may defy economic logic and could easily drive up food prices. It certainly depends on the generosity of taxpayers, but it makes eminent political sense in Washington, D.C. Two School Districts Switch to B20 Soy Biodiesel (Inside Indiana Business ) Both Franklin and Wayne Township schools in Marion County are announcing that they will begin fueling their bus fleets with B20 soy biodiesel. The Indiana Soybean Alliance says the school districts will reduce harmful emissions through the switch and help provide a market for Indiana soybeans. Brazil builds for biodiesel future (Contra Costa Times) For the better part of his 64 years, Sebastian Luis de Sousa has scratched a meager living in the paprika-red soil of central Brazil. So when offered a chance to grow castor beans to produce an alternative fuel called biodiesel, the rawboned father of nine reckoned he had nothing to lose.

Construction moving ahead on Wisconsin's largest ethanol plant (Ethanol Producer Magazine) A group of Wisconsin ethanol plant stakeholders are developing the state's largest ethanol plant at the site of one of the nation's largest barley malting facilities. Infinity Bio-Energy to Invest $75 Million in Brazil Biodiesel (Bloomberg) Infinity Bio-Energy Ltd., a fund that bought three sugar and ethanol mills in Brazil, plans to buy and build biodiesel plants in the country as demand for alternative fuels rises, its chief executive said. Europe set for biodiesel boom (Goldman Sachs) Europe's market for biodiesel is expected to more than double in value to about eight billion euros (5.35 billion pounds) a year by 2010, investment bank Goldman Sachs said on Monday. Legislation pushes biodiesel to new heights in US (Truck News) US legislation is resulting in unprecedented growth for the biodiesel industry, a group representing biodiesel producers says. The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) says it has tracked more than 275 pieces of biodiesel-specific legislation in the US in 2006. Click here for previous news Click for this page's permanent location This site's RSS feed

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