In case you’re wondering where I am, I am in Homestead, FL. Yesterday was travel day. So here I am just as the practice laps are completed at the Miami-Homestead Speedway the day before the XM Satellite Radio Indy 300. That’ll take place tomorrow evening at 8pm eastern time and you can see it on ESPN2. I’m getting ready to …
Getting Ready to Race at the XM Indy 300
It’s almost race time for the Indy Racing League. The first one is this Saturday at the Homestead Miami Speedway and I’ll be blogging from there both here and on our Domestic Fuel site courtesy of the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council. It’s the XM Satellite Radio Indy 300. This is a historic race since it’ll be the first one …
Florida Needs Ethanol
EPIC has a new web domain for people in Florida to learn more about the benefits of ethanol. You can find it at Florida Needs Ethanol. The launch was timed today to coincide with the 12 Hours of Sebring American Le Mans Series race. The cars in this series will be running on a blend of 10% ethanol this year. …
President Bush With Ethanol Indy Car
I’ve got to believe all my friends in the ethanol business are happy about this picture. President Bush visited Novozymes today in Franklinton, NC. He was there to participate in a panel discussion on cellulosic ethanol. The best part of the story is that it’s on the White House website, including the picture of President Bush with the #17 Team …
Ethanol Song & Statistics
What a great week of biofuels blogging this has been. The National Ethanol Conference is now over and saying goodbye was RFA President/CEO, Bob Dinneen. One of the last things he did was play a video (I’ll try to get a copy) supplied by Ron Fagen, Fagen, Inc. It’s actually a music video so when you listen just imagine what …
The State of the Ethanol Industry
If you want a fact-filled rundown on just how things are going in the ethanol industry then look no further than today’s State of the Ethanol Industry speech by Renewable Fuels Association President/CEO, Bob Dinneen. He was introduced as the Reverend of Renewable Fuels and if you listen to the end of his speech you’ll know why. I love this …
Renewable Fuels Blogging
This is one of many vehicles on display here at the National Ethanol Conference in Tucson, AZ. The Renewable Fuels Association is having their annual marketing meeting where up to 70 percent of the ethanol that’s sold during the summer months gets negotiated. If you’d like to keep up on the action then check out the National Ethanol Conference Blog …
On the Air in the Hallway
The Missouri Corn Growers Association held a seminar last week in conjunction with their annual meeting on “Profiting in the New Paradigm – Feed and Fuel Security.” The focus was on how corn growers and livestock producers can work together to produce ethanol and still feed cows and pigs and chickens at a reasonable price. One of the speakers was …
National Ethanol Conference Blog
Let me take a time out from the National Farm Machinery Show to let you know about my next stop on the agriblogging highway. It’s going to be the 2007 National Ethanol Conference put on by the Renewable Fuels Association. This will be a cross-posting venture as I cover the Conference on a website we just built for RFA this …
Garst BYG Winners
Here’s putting your promotional money where your research mouth is. If you’re going to promote products that help in the production of ethanol, or biofuels in general, then what better way to promote it than by using the end result – the fuel. That’s what Garst did. . . . the company is driving support for biofuels by giving the …