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Tag Archives: oil
Fuels America Sends a Valentine to the Oil Refiners
Fuels America (@FuelsAmerica) today sent an early Valentine card to the oil refining industry. Turns out, many Americans — who paid an extra $257 at the pump last year while using fewer gallons of gas — are in love with oil. On this (Hallmark) holiday, check out the Fuels America valentine video — We Love Oil! — and share it with your loved ones or anyone who would be interested in learning the truth about our transportation Read More >
Biotechnology “Oozes Through Your Life”
Author Stephanie Clifford details U.S. dependency on oil in a recent Sunday New York Times article about the many ways that Oil Oozes Through Your Life, from food ingredients to plastic containers to cosmetics and all the energy that ships products from factory to consumer. The article notes that “there are only a few alternatives to petroleum-based chemicals,” but no examples other than natural gas are given. This oversight was mentioned by the USDA’s Sarah Read More >
Compounded Climate Accounting Errors
Timothy Searchinger, visiting scholar at Princeton University, Dan Kammen of the University of California Berkeley, David Tilman of the University of Minnesota and other authors from the Environmental Defense Fund published an interesting new proposal in the Policy Forum section of Science magazine today. The argument put forward is that “Replacing fossil fuels with bioenergy does not by itself reduce carbon emissions, because the CO2 released by tailpipes and smokestacks is roughly the same per Read More >
Biofuels & Climate Change
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Tags: biofuels, carbon debt, climate change, Climate Change, climate change legislation, Greenhouse Gas Emission, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change, international land use change, Land Use, oil, Oil prices, renewable fuel standard, Searchinger, Tilman, United Nations Climate Change Conference
Tags: biofuels, carbon debt, climate change, Climate Change, climate change legislation, Greenhouse Gas Emission, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change, international land use change, Land Use, oil, Oil prices, renewable fuel standard, Searchinger, Tilman, United Nations Climate Change Conference
Visualizing the indirect effects of oil
It has been pointed out numerous times on this blog (here, here and here) that you can’t have a true comparison of fuels if you account for the direct effects of all fuels and the indirect effects of only one. But that is what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Air Resource Board (ARB) have proposed. Both the EPA in their proposed RFS II rules and ARB in their Low-Carbon-Fuel-Standard have calculated the Read More >
Weekly Blog Wrap Up
There’s a lot going on in the blogosphere about the world of biofuels this week. Yesterday, the World Wildlife Fund released a report,which according to NCTechnews.com, “concludes that industrial biotechnology can provide dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and provide strong progress toward a green and sustainable economy. WWF calls for increased political backing for the industry to leverage the positive environmental effects. The findings are based on peer-reviewed research from Novozymes, the world leader Read More >
Biofuels & Climate Change
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Tags: algae, biofuel, Biofuel Technology, biofuels, biogas, biopreferred, biotechnology, carbon debt, cellulosic, climate change, Climate Change, climate change legislation, ethanol, Greenhouse Gas Emission, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change, international land use change, Land Use, oil, oil demand, Oil prices, sustainable energy
Tags: algae, biofuel, Biofuel Technology, biofuels, biogas, biopreferred, biotechnology, carbon debt, cellulosic, climate change, Climate Change, climate change legislation, ethanol, Greenhouse Gas Emission, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change, international land use change, Land Use, oil, oil demand, Oil prices, sustainable energy
