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Biodiesel craze turns fryer grease to gold
This article, from the Daily Journal of Commerce, gives insight into the present recycled cooking oil market in Portland and the effects due to the popularity of biodiesel. Mostly gone are the days of getting used oil for free, some restaurants are now charging up to $1.20 per gallon to collect their used grease to…
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Watch Our Money Burn Up
The Sightline Institute has created a little widget that shows us the spending in our state on gas and oil. I thought about putting it in the sidebar for this site, but decided it would be a little busy after the novelty wears off. If you’d like your own copy, you can get it here.…
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Higher Bar for Sustainable Biofuels
The Daily Journal of Commerce reports on an analysis by the Oregon Environmental Council that suggests that whether biofuels improve sustainability is a function of their full lifecycle impacts, including the source of feedstock biomass.
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Warped Biofuels Policy?
An article in Sunday’s O suggests that biofuels refineries are looking at Oregon sites due to a combination of favorable federal and state tax preferences. The result could be grain flowing into Oregon and fuel flowing back out. What kind of policy do we need to get a biofuels industry that uses local biomass to…
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Biofuels: Mega Production or “community-scale”
The Daily Journal of Commerce explores what scale of production is appropriate and/or likely to succeed. Should our biofuels come from Oregon or the Midwest?