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'Black Friday' update | What we're buying today

Rejoice! With Friday's up day in a shortened session, stocks capped their biggest weekly advance for the Standard & Poor's 500 index in 34 years. Among local stocks of note Friday, Commerce Bancshares gained $1.06 to close at...

Bear Grylls: How are we going to face up to energy crisis?

As the world economies battle for air, all of us are facing challenging times. If we are to have a world worth handing on to our children, we must have the courage to look beyond oil and conventional fossil fuelled power...

DJ CBOT Corn Review: Ends Lower; Demand, Outside Mkts Pressure (ENG)

By Ian Berry Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES CHICAGO (Dow Jones)--A stronger dollar and lower crude oil sent CBOT corn futures lower in a truncated post-holiday trading session, traders said Friday. December corn ended down 4 1/2 cents...

11/28 :: Ethanol insights

GET LIVE UPDATES TO YOUR MOBILE PHONE Subscribe Today! The multi-year partnership between the IndyCar Series and APEX-Brasil -- a trade promotion agency that will be the official ethanol supplier to the series beginning in 2009...

Flex-fuel fleet flusters feds

WASHINGTON -- The federal government has invested billions of dollars over the past 16 years, building a fleet of 112,000 alternative-fuel vehicles to serve as a model for a national movement away from fossil fuels.

Forget plug-in tax credits

Killing American fuel economyEthanol fans can't talk enough about how ethanol has helped America. Yet, when Congress struck a deal in 1988 to promote ethanol, they devised a tax credit scheme enabling 16 mpg gas guzzlers to...

Obama's Plans for Hybrid Cars (Kristin Kronstain)

President-elect Barack Obama recognizes the need to address the most common problems of the environment, including America's dependence on oil. He has identified hybrid cars as the way of the future, the development of which...

Corn growers object to VeraSun bankruptcy

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Nov. 27--The Iowa Corn Growers Association will file objections to the bankruptcy of the nation's second-largest ethanol producer. A group of more than 100 corn growers is challenging provisions of...

Fuel from food? Forget about it

In future years we may look back at the Great Mexican Tortilla Crisis of 2006 as the time when ethanol lost its vroom. By ARTHUR MAX The Associated Press Costly food Food prices increased steadily for the past three years until...

European ethanol storage capacity limited due to surplus supply

London (Platts) -- 27Nov2008 -- Storage capacity for ethanol in Northwest Europe's Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp trading hub is filling up on a combination of poor ethanol demand and abundant supply, trading sources said...