The False Promise of Ethanol

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Ethanol is being promoted as one of the solutions for controlling global warming. US Congress has followed this reasoning and has provided a subsidy for ethanol production in the amount of .51 per gallon. This subsidy created a minor boom in corn growing states in the USA. In 2006, the annual ethanol production reached 4.85 billion gallons. The Federal Government had to pay out 2.48 billion dollars and the consumer was faced with a major increase of corn prices, which resulted in a considerable jump in food prices. Corn farmers were happy, a large number of corn fermentation plants were built, and ethanol is now dispensed in special fuel stations.

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Adba And Uk Battle Over Biogas Tariffs

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ENGLAND–The UK will institute a new system of tariffs for biogas and renewable heat. The program, which is modeled after a successful Canadian initiative, will index the tariffs with inflation to protect investors and–hopefully–boost earnings in the biofuel sector.

However, critics complain that this deal leaves anaerobic digestion plants in the dust.

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ALL Fuels and Energy Company (OTCBB: AFSE) $2M (MarketCap) Trading at +52%

The ethanol industry is currently experiencing a high level of stress as the industry attempts to stabilize itself in the wake of the tumult caused by the recent period of historically-high oil prices, during the first half of 2008, immediately followed by a sudden drop from those historically-high prices. In the current climate, ALL Fuels and Energy Company (OTCBB: AFSE) believes there exists numerous opportunities to leverage their ethanol expertise to become an active participant in the ethanol production industry. ALL Fuels is a development-stage ethanol company organized to operate as an ethanol producer, focusing primarily on the production and sale of alternative fuels, cost saving efficiencies to the biofuels industry, and improved channels to market. The company’s overall goal is to become a significant producer of ethanol and its co-products in the United States, that is, to become a producer of at least 500 million gallons of ethanol annually. It intends to accomplish this goal through (1) acquisition of existing ethanol production facilities and (2) construction of new ethanol production facilities. ALL Fuels and Energy is currently trading at .038, up .013 or 52% for the day.
 

For the past year, ALL Fuels has been pursuing an agreement with a leading research institution for the development and commercialization of an ethanol “super” enzyme, producing cellulosic ethanol with a theoretical savings of up to 50% reduction in ethanol production costs. Ethanol produced by such a super enzyme would be manufactured from sustainable non-food biomass and surplus waste products, such as wood chips, household garbage and sugarcane waste, which are abundantly available domestically and internationally. One of the key benefits would be the elimination of the cost of the more traditional component ethanol feed-stock, corn.
 

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