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Pike Research forecasts global biofuels market to double by 2012 to $185.3B

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despite huge demand for biofuels from transportation end-markets, access to inexpensive feedstocks and financing hurdles remain challenging obstacles for biofuels production trying to keep pace with emerging mandates. Governments are expected to retreat from stimulus investment highs, shifting financing. and biodiesel.

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Pike Research forecasts global biofuels market value to double to $185B by 2021

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But with conventional biofuels constrained by social and environmental concerns, and price parity and access to financing a persistent obstacle to advanced biofuels scale-up, a number of difficult challenges must be overcome if the industry is to keep pace with emerging mandates. access and dictating terms for accessing financing.

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Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

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The taxpayer is financing the American automakers’ survival and their future. The plan calls for 39 mpg for cars and 30 mpg for light trucks and SUVs by 2016; no automaker lawsuits; and California subscribes to the national program through 2016. However, the power relationships have shifted somewhat. Such as the $1.1

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