http://www.ethanolrfa.org/ethanolreport The Renewable Fuels Association blog all about Ethanol Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:28:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The CEO and President of the RFA, Bob Dinneen, led the last panel discussion and provided closing comments. I interviewed him to get his thought on how this year's Conference went. Bob says that attendance far exceeded his expectations given the state of the industry at the moment. He ... http://www.ethanolrfa.org/ethanolreport/2009/02/26/rfa-ceo-provides-closing-comments/ "When the history books are written, 2008 most likely will go down as an anomaly year, " began John Urbanchuck, Director of LEGC, LLC. Housing market crash. Financial market crash. Global recession. Commodity boom and bust. Wave of bankruptcies. "We slipped into a recession in December 2007, ending a ... http://www.ethanolrfa.org/ethanolreport/2009/02/26/economic-analysis-from-john-urbanchuk/ Our final keynote speaker was Joe Petrowski, CEO, Gulf Oil. Once again the ethanol industry was able to hear directly from a representative of the oil industry. Joe was entertaining as well as informative. He says that he's not a fan of high cost energy and that we should ... http://www.ethanolrfa.org/ethanolreport/2009/02/26/more-perspective-from-the-oil-industry/ Steven Wagner, Merrick & Company, is a board member of RFA who says he attended the first National Ethanol Conference in Iowa. He says it's a lot warmer here than it was there. He's very encouraged about the progress that's being made to develop ethanol, especially from the standpoint of ... http://www.ethanolrfa.org/ethanolreport/2009/02/25/board-member-perspective-2/ At the Conference today, the Renewable Fuels Association, the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association and the European Bioethanol Fuel Association announced the formation of the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance. Pictured are (l-r), Bliss Baker, Executive Director, Global Renewable Fuels Alliance; Gordon Quaiattini, President, Canadian Renewable Fuels Association; Robert Veirhout, Secretary ... http://www.ethanolrfa.org/ethanolreport/2009/02/25/global-renewable-fuels-alliance-announced/ I've had an opportunity to speak with several board members and one of them is Bernie Punt, Siouxland Energy & Livestock Coop. Like other members he's very optimistic about the future of the ethanol industry. Bernie says that the Conference always draws an interesting group of people in the industry ... http://www.ethanolrfa.org/ethanolreport/2009/02/25/board-member-perspective/ A panel of three Washington public policy specialists took the stage at the National Ethanol Conference on Tuesday to talk about what is going on inside the beltway. The panelists included Anne Steckel with the American Farm Bureau, Jim Ford with the American Petroleum Institute and Mark Maher with GM. ... http://www.ethanolrfa.org/ethanolreport/2009/02/24/washington-insiders-upbeat-about-new-administration/ Renewable Fuels Association president and CEO was the first guest on the AgriTalk live broadcast Tuesday from the National Ethanol Conference. Bob (far right) is pictured here in a shot from the third floor level with host Mike Adams and producer John Herath. AgriTalk will be broadcasting live ... http://www.ethanolrfa.org/ethanolreport/2009/02/24/agritalk-live-broadcast-from-nec/ Representatives from five of the top companies working toward commercialization of cellulosic ethanol presented their progress during the first general session of the 2009 National Ethanol Conference Tuesday. They were (L to R) John Howe with Verenium, Gerson Santos-Leon with Abengoa, Bill Schafer of Range Fuels, Chris Hessler of Iogen, and ... http://www.ethanolrfa.org/ethanolreport/2009/02/24/cellulosic-ethanol-progress/ The first press conference here at the Conference focused on some new research that show almost no land use change impact from 15 billion gallons of U.S. corn ethanol. Indirect land-use affects of corn-based ethanol would be "small" reported Thomas Darlington, with Air Improvement Resource, Inc. Darlington has been working ... http://www.ethanolrfa.org/ethanolreport/2009/02/24/no-corn-ethanol-land-use-impact/