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Atlanta-area E85 will be cheap tomorrow - $1.85 a gallon for two hours

click picture to enlarge Sorry to anyone in Atlanta who could've used this information today, but I just noticed it now: a half-dozen fuel stations are offering E85 for $1.85 a gallon tomorrow. The low price - subsidized/sponsored by the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (EPIC), Clean FUEL Distribution, Indore Oil and BP - also happened today at six other stations. The deal is here because these 12 shops are all new ethanol retailers (Wonder how the post office feels about this?), and EPIC and the other promoters want people to fill up ... Read more →

Iowa's doing that cheap E85 thang again Sebastian Blanco

First, some history: March 2008: $1.85 a gallon in Iowa. October 2007: $0.00 a gallon in Wisconsin. August 2007: $1.85 a gallon in South Dakota. May 2007: $1.85 a gallon in Iowa. These are ...

Another day, another opinion: Ethanol keeping oil prices down Sebastian Blanco

Photo by Hummanna. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. Brazilian president Luis Inazio Lula da Silva is eager to shoot down anyone who says ethanol raises the price of food. There are plenty ...

Ethanol backers, have no fear, prices are on the rebound Sebastian Blanco

While we spent a lot of late 2007 talking about the very real ethanol glut that was happening in America, the good news for people who have a lot invested in the biofuel (farmers, for one) is that ...

Citigroup: New energy bill will push ethanol prices higher Sebastian Blanco

While the auto industry reactions were pretty much universally positive when the new energy bill passed earlier this month, Citigroup is ready to throw a bit of water on the parade. The banking giant ...

AP: Biofuels playing a role in the "worst bout of food inflation since 1990" 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Here's the deal: ethanol is not the only reason that the average price of a bowl of cereal and milk is moving from 44 cents last year to 49 cents this year to an expected 56 cents next year. But, as AP writer Lauren Villagran explains, a weak U.S. dollar, high fuel prices and China's growing ...

Citigroup sees US ethanol prices "improving" in 2008 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

What's better, high or low ethanol prices? It all depends on whom you're asking. For mega-bank Citigroup, higher prices mean things are "improving." Certainly this isn't true if you're the end consumer, but for the faceless economists, higher prices mean stronger stocks. While Citigroup, according ...

Good sugarcane harvest means ethanol will continue to be cheap in Brazil 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Good news for Brazilians: the prices for ethanol has dropped 38 percent because of an increase in sugarcane production. Prices will continue its decrease, according to Júlio Maria Borges, an analyst at JOB Consultaría, even when the harvest finishes. There are two determining factors ...


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