Green Options

Late last week in a vote of 65-27, the Senate passed an energy bill that made progress in some areas but was stripped down in others.

The crown jewel was certainly a near-40 percent increase in fuel efficiency requirements for vehicles by 2020. For the first time, SUVs, vans, and small trucks fall under the same regulations as passenger cars. Each vehicle group must achieve a 10 miles per gallon (mpg) increase in fuel efficiency

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April was a monster month in the biofuel world. I've already written about a few top stories, including a biofuel race from Washington, D.C. to San Jose, Costa Rica, UC Berkeley proposing a biofuel rating system, and San Francisco announcing it will be turning restaurant oil into biodiesel.

I couldn't write about it all though, so I thought a summary of other big stories was in order:

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The United States is drunk off ethanol. If this were a literal truth, we'd all be having a lot more fun. But in sober reality, ethanol hysteria has finally started to affect us at home. In the U.S., ethanol is made primarily from corn-grain fermentation. Since most food items can be traced back to corn (cereals, soft drinks, meat, dairy, etc), it was only a matter of time until surging corn prices manifested themselves in

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