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State of the ethanol nation will be solid, but it's tough now

As we've seen, the corn ethanol industry has taken a huge hit recently, so we decided it was worth it to take a look at the overall ethanol market, corn and otherwise. A good place to start is a new report by Global Industry Analysts, which predicts that, for all its trouble, the world ethanol market grow by about 7,597 million gallons between now and 2012 to 27.7 billion gallons. Even though the excitement for corn ethanol has (mostly) died down, there are still a lot of biofuel mandates on the books (the U.S. will require about 8 billion ... Read more →

Ethanol producer VeraSun files for bankruptcy protection as corn plummets Sam Abuelsamid

Humans have known for thousands of years that a good or bad crop can mean bounty or death by starvation. One of the many downsides to relying on crops for a feedstock for anything is the volatility ...

VeraSun merges with US BioEnergy, becomes larges ethanol producer in U.S. Jeremy Korzeniewski

As expected, VeraSun Energy and US BioEnergy, two large American ethanol producers, have become one. In fact, the just-merged company expects to be the largest producer of ethanol in the United ...

Cheap ethanol in Sioux Falls, SD tomorrow Sebastian Blanco

Looking for cheap ethanol in South Dakota? You'll get your chance tomorrow when Enterprise Rent-A-Car and VeraSun Energy offer up the biofuel at a Get-N-Go station in Sioux Falls. The promotional ...

More ethanol available for sale in Texas thanks to VeraSun Energy and Kroger Sebastian Blanco

Hey cowboy, got one of those little flex-fuel badges on your truck? If so, you can now fill 'er up with E85 at 20 Kroger gas stations in the Dallas and Houston areas. Kroger and VeraSun Energy ...

VeraSun Energy and US BioEnergy ethanol producers to merge 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

VeraSun Energy and US BioEnergy, two large American ethanol producers, have announced a merger agreement that should take place in the first quarter of 2008. The combined company will be called VeraSun. The boards of directors of each company unanimously approved the merger, so there shouldn't be ...

Perhaps the BioTown project was too ambitions; VeraSun's ethanol plant stopped 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

This is not good news for American ethanol advocates: VeraSun is suspending construction at its 110-million-gallon-a-year ethanol plant in Reynolds, Indiana because ethanol prices are too low. This matters more than the shutdown of two biodiesel plants in Texas that we mentioned yesterday. Why, you ...

Kroger filling stations to offer VeraSun E85 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Ohio-based grocery chain Kroger also has gas stations at many of their stores. Kroger is now teaming up with VeraSun Energy and Enterprise Rent-a-car to install E85 pumps at twenty of their stations in Ohio and Kentucky. Enterprise has been labeling some of their rental outlets that are located ...

VeraSun Energy and Enterprise will bring ethanol to rental cars 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

There are certainly no lack of methods to make your travels less environmentally damaging than they used to be. Here's another option, if you're into ethanol: VeraSun Energy and Enterprise Rent-A-Car announced last week that the two companies will work together to use VeraSun's E85 brand (VE85) in ...

BioTown, USA getting an ethanol plant from VeraSun Energy 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Now we're getting somewhere. And by "we" I mean BioTown, USA (Reynolds, Indiana). While last year we had stories about how this small town in Indiana is trying to grow and make all of its own energy but still didn't have any ethanol pumps (so all the flexible-fuel vehicles in the town were cruising ...

VeraSun to produce biodiesel from ethanol co-product 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

There has undoubtedly been a lot of noise from both sides of the ethanol argument. Putting it simply, proponents of the biofuel see it as a way to ween the country off foreign oil while critics question its sustainability and energy balance. Friday's news from VeraSun, the nation's second largest ...

Ethanol producer stocks fared poorly in 3rd quarter 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Chart: Google Finance / VeraSun Energy Corporation (NYSE: VSE) Apparently, all's not well in the market for the booming ethanol industry. After showing a strong performance in the second quarter, ethanol producer companies' stock prices slid a considerable amount during the third quarter. According ...

Sheetz gets more E85 pumps in Pittsburgh 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

At a Pittsburgh-area Sheetz gas station right about now (the event was scheduled to start at 1:30) six representatives from Sheetz, GM, VeraSun Energy, and the DoE's National Energy Technology Laboratory are fielding questions from the media and just your regular average customer about E85, how it ...

E85 station coming to Pittsburgh this week, two more by year's end 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

I wrote Monday about how Pennsylvania is making a big push to get out of their coal history and moving into a greener energy future. Here are a few more details on how General Motors, VeraSun and Sheetz gas stations are working with the state will do this. VeraSun announced that its partnership ...

VeraSun stock soars after IPO 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

The market debut of VeraSun Energy Corporation, the second-largest US ethanol producer, raised $419.8m. The shares in the company soared by as much as 30 percent (but are down almost 10 percent today) on their first day of trading. The powerful debut of the alternative fuel producer is clearly a ...


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