05/07/2008
The Ethanol Report
Ethanol Report on Press Conference
In case you don’t have time to the entire one hour press conference from last week, here’s a six minute summary. This “Ethanol Report” podcast features comments from the four agriculture and ethanol industry leaders who participated in a press conference on April 30 about the role of biofuels in food price increases. [...]
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05/07/2008
The Ethanol Report
RFA at RFS Hearing
As the House Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality heard testimony regarding the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) on Tuesday, oil hit yet another record high of $122 a barrel.
RFA president Bob Dinneen reminded the committee of that several times during the hearing, having to correct his own pre-prepared remarks. “Mr. Chairman, the RFS made [...]
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05/06/2008
The Ethanol Report
Spell the Name Right
It was publicity hound P.T. Barnum who is credited with the quote “I don’t care what they say as long as they spell my name right.” Wonder if his name was as hard for the media to get right as “Dinneen.”
Bob’s name is frequently spelled “Dineen” by the media - like this recent Reuters [...]
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04/30/2008
The Ethanol Report
Press Turns Out for Food Price Briefing
The media was very interested in hearing the story that agriculture and the ethanol industry had to tell about food prices during a press conference Wednesday at the National Press Club.
Former Agriculture Secretary John Block, National Corn Growers CEO Rick Tolman, National Farmers Union president Tom Buis and RFA’s own Bob Dinneen gave opening statements [...]
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04/30/2008
The Ethanol Report
Food Price Press Conference
Updated with recorded video
Today at 1pm eastern time, RFA is hosting a press conference at the National Press Club. In attendance will be:
The Honorable John Block, former Secretary of Agriculture
Tom Buis, President, National Farmers Union (NFA)
Bob Dinneen, President of the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA)
Rick Tolman, CEO, National Corn Growers Association (NCGA)
The topic will be: [...]
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04/30/2008
The Ethanol Report
VeraSun Oil Facility Breaks Ground
VeraSun Energy broke ground on a new facility last week that will tap into ethanol for oil.
VeraSun’s patent-pending Oil Extraction process is designed to yield 7-8 million gallons of corn oil annually from 390,000 tons of distillers grains currently produced at VeraSun’s ethanol production facility in Aurora, S.D. The corn oil will then be made [...]
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