Sunday, June 26, 2005
With record high prices for oil, we are starting to see new development in buyout diesel and ethanol. Here is an article about a new biodiesel manufacturing facility in New York. Read more.
In Oregon, state legislation to promote ethanol and biodiesel is floundering. Business lobbyists, seeing a popular measure moving through the legislature, have attached an anti-pollution tax credit. That over-reaching has lost the bill some support. Read more.
Meanwhile in Iowa, long a leader in ethanol, producers are working on biodiesel production from ethanol by-products. Read more. Researchers from North Dakota have converted canola oil into biodiesel. Read more.
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The emergence of biodiesel
