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Profile: Farmers Ethanol: Focusing on Sustainable Corn Ethanol Production and a Triple Bottom Line

Green Car Congress

In 2008, Valero Energy CEO Bill Kless had said that using corn to produce ethanol will make food so expensive in poor countries that it will cause more misery than global warming. Rob Kurtz, a project manager for BBI International, was another keynote speaker and an authority on biofuels plants. Earlier post.). Financing challenges.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

Most of this was driven by Europe, where strict cash penalties levied directly on automakers, for each ICE (internal-combustion engine) sold, came into effect January 2020 — and simply worked! Time will tell how Brexit will affect things like the availability of England-assembled Nissan Leafs on the Continent, and vice versa.

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