Oct 29 2008

Thanks To Grassley: Bad Day For GMA’s Scott Faber

Yesterday, U.S. Senator Charles Grassley sent a letter to C. Manly Molpus, Scott Faber’s boss at GMA, demanding that food companies lower their prices in response to falling commodities.  Grassley took issue with some of Faber’s comments, especially his public admission that anti-ethanol campaign was launched by GMA to “protect the bottom line of grocery manufacturers and processors.”

It’s not too often that US Senators call out lobbyists (to their new bosses), by name, especially for saying something so ill-advised.

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Oct 28 2008

Grassley Fires Off Letter To GMA On Food Prices

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Today, Sen. Grassley fired off an letter to GMA head C. Manly Molpus asking if food companies will lower their prices in response to falling commodities.  To see the letter, click here.

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Oct 21 2008

Consumerist Keeps Up Pressure On Food Companies

Published by FPT Blogger under Uncategorized

Click here to read this Consumerist.com post about food prices.

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Oct 21 2008

FPT.org Spokesman Brooke Coleman Hits Airwaves Promoting Missing Cookie Campaign

The Missing Cookie Campaign has been a huge success. Brooke Coleman has done interviews with: Fox Business News and radio interviews with: The Young Turks on XM Satellite Radio, KDWN, KTRH, KPNW, WTDY, WRUF, AgriTalk, Clear Channel in Omaha, KPAM and the CBS Radio Network.

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Oct 14 2008

Algae As Jet fuel

Published by FPT Blogger under Algae

More and more, experts on the subject are viewing algae as a likely source for jet fuel in the future.

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Oct 06 2008

DuPont Making Progress Towards Progressive Biofuels

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DuPont is moving right along.

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Oct 06 2008

Unilever Opposes Biofuels

Published by FPT Blogger under food prices

Here is a new story about Unilever opposing biofuels.

We’ve said it time and again, oil prices are what is driving commodity costs — not biofuels.  In fact, biofuels keep gasoline prices down.

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Oct 03 2008

Nestle CEO Misses Point

Published by FPT Blogger under food prices

Nestle Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe says that rising oil prices force farmers to grow more corn for biofuels, which raises commodity prices. But he won’t admit that rising oil prices are responsible for making nearly every other aspect of producing food products more expensive.  The Chairman said:

“Most important, of course, is the oil price, because through oil you have an impact” on agricultural producers,” Brabeck said.

Too bad food companies won’t be honest with Americans about why their food costs more. Rising oil prices, not biofuels.

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Sep 24 2008

Common Lake Pest Good For Biofuels?

Published by FPT Blogger under Waste

Here is an compelling story out of Washington State, where one concerned citizen is taking steps to see if she can take an environmental plight on Washington lakes, known as the plant milfoil, and make that pest into biofuels.  Good luck Alanna Mitchell.

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Sep 24 2008

DOE Official Tells Farmweek: Ethanol Benefit “Not Insignificant”

Published by FPT Blogger under Politics

Farmweek interviewsJohn Mizroch, the Department of Energy’s Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.  Key quote:

“The current ethanol industry has grown remarkably fast, and has done well in offering ethanol as (a gasoline) oxygenate, as an alternative to fuel itself,” Mizroch told FarmWeek. “I don’t personally believe it has added significantly to the price of food commodities. I think our industry could sustain up to the limits of the RFS.”

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