Ethanol – North America

If we want it all, and we do, what’s the answer? Oil prices are shooting up and going higher; gasoline prices gallop along in concert. Recently it was announced that 60 million barrels of oil will be released from petroleum reserves. Since the world uses 90-plus million barrels per day, the 60 million barrels should […]

No one needs to be reminded of the difficulties and complexities 2020 has presented. Like the famous philosopher once said, “It’s difficult to remember that your objective was to drain the swamp when you are up to your butt in alligators.” Nonetheless, it is impossible to ignore the problem of continuing to espouse an ethos

The past two decades or so have been extraordinary for energy producers in the United States. Two of the most noteworthy have been first, the exponential growth of the use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for oil and gas production and secondly, the equally impressive growth of an industry to produce ethanol for fuel. Neither

I recently attended a symposium where the issue of using antibiotics in ethanol production was discussed. This matter has been a point of debate for many years and will probably continue as such unless the FDA or some other regulatory entity decides to take a firm stand against allowing antibiotics to be used. As it

I often read boating magazines. Occasionally, I find an article about ethanol and the destructive impact it’s having on the boating population. These pieces, without exception, have errors that make them not only wrong but also inherently misleading. The message that is usually conveyed is that small amounts of ethanol in gasoline are destructive to