Biodiesel is a renewable diesel fuel substitute that can be made by chemically combining any natural oil or fat with an alcohol such as methanol or ethanol. Methanol has been the most commonly used...
A two-year moratorium on the purchase of soybeans in newly deforested parts of the Amazon rainforest put in place by Greenpeace, working with the Brazilian Vegetable Oils Industry Association, seems...
From 1978 to 1996, the U.S. Department of Energy?s Office of Fuels Development funded a program to develop renewable transportation fuels from algae. The main focus of the program, know as the A...
Retail food prices measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for food have begun to accelerate and are beginning to approach rates of increase last seen in mid2004. Critics of renewable fuels...
Today?s momentum in food prices may be signaling a new era of even higher food prices in the future. Supplies of agricultural commodities are expected to tighten further as worldwide populations g...
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