For millions of Americans, Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start to summer. Despite gas prices that are nearly 40% higher than a year ago, families across the nation will
Since its very inception, the global biofuels industry has unfairly been portrayed by some ardent detractors as a sector that creates an unavoidable “food vs. fuel” choice. Luddites and Malthusians
Yesterday, leading advocates of the U.S. biofuels industry commended Congress for its leadership in enacting the enhanced Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007
On May 10, the RFA released an extensive analysis of the U.S. ethanol industry’s production of distillers grains, corn gluten feed, and corn gluten meal – the livestock feed co-products
Federal government data released today tells Americans what they already knew: prices for everything from cars to cereal to gasoline have been on the rise. The Consumer Price Index rose
Two anxiously awaited bits of information—USDA’s first estimate of 2011 corn supply and demand; and March ethanol export data—were released Wednesday. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Wednesday made
Senator Grassley and a group of 7 bipartisan cosponsors introduced the Domestic Energy Security Act of 2011. For all provisions, this bill would extend them through 2016 – in essence
The Energy Policy Research Foundation (EPRINC) recently released a white paper inexplicably suggesting that the cost of the Federal ethanol program exceeds its benefits by a factor of 3 to
