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[kachingpdx]

All on this message board should be calling both their Senators and their Congressional Representative. If you don't want to call D.C. they all have local offices which won't belong distance.

See call script below or create your own, but call!

"Good Morning, I am calling regarding the Biofuels Tax credit created under the 2004 American Jobs Act.

I urge the Senator/Representative to extend the Biofuel Blenders Tax Credit in order that we continue our energy independence, clean up our air quality and help create jobs for Americans."

[The Cheap Investor]

Perhaps this will alleviate your worries: the government will not spend all of this money and not renew the incentive.

DOE, USDA ANNOUNCE $600+ MILLION INVESTMENT IN ADVANCED BIOREFINERY PROJECTS

12/08/2009

Nineteen integrated biorefinery projects will receive up to $564 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to accelerate the construction and operation of pilot, demonstration and commercial scale facilities. Collectively, these projects will be matched with more than $700 million in private and non-Federal cost-share funds, for total project investments of almost $1.3 billion. USDA and the DOE announced the projects (in 15 states) that will validate refining technologies and help lay the foundation for full commercial-scale development of a biomass industry in the US. The projects selected will produce advanced biofuels, biopower and bioproducts using biomass feedstocks on a pilot, demonstration and full commercial scale. The projects selected are part of the ongoing effort to reduce US dependence on foreign oil, spur the creation of the domestic bio-industry and provide new jobs in many rural areas of the country. The biofuels and bioproducts produced through these projects will displace petroleum and accelerate the industry's ability to achieve production targets mandated by the federal Renewable Fuel Standard. These investments will help close the gap between the production from the small number of biorefineries currently in operation and the aggressive Renewable Fuel Standard goals for cellulosic and advanced biofuels.

The following are the pilot-scale projects awarded:

* Algenol Biofuels Inc. $25 million to make ethanol directly from carbon dioxide and seawater using algae; the Freeport, Texas, facility will have the capacity to produce 100,000 gallons of fuel-grade ethanol per year.
* American Process Inc. $18 million to produce fuel and potassium acetate using processed wood generated by a hardboard manufacturing facility; the pilot plant in Alpena, Mich., will have the capacity to produce up to 890,000 gallons of ethanol and 690,000 gallons of potassium acetate per year, starting in 2011.
* Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc. $25 million to produce a diesel substitute through the fermentation of sweet sorghum. The Emeryville, Calif., plant also will have the capacity to produce lubricants, polymers and other petro-chemical substitutes.
* Archer Daniels Midland. $24.8 million to use acid to break down biomass, which can be converted to liquid fuels or energy; the Decatur, Ill., facility will produce ethanol and ethyl acrylate and also will recover minerals and salts from the biomass that then can be returned to the soil.
* ClearFuels Technology Inc. $23 million to produce renewable diesel and jet fuel from woody biomass by integrating ClearFuels' and Rentech's conversion technologies; the Commerce City, Colo., facility also will evaluate the conversion of bagasse and biomass mixtures to fuels.
* Elevance Renewable Sciences. $2.5 million to complete a preliminary engineering design for a future facility producing jet fuel, renewable diesel substitutes and high-value chemicals from plant oils and poultry fat, in Newton, Iowa.
* Gas Technology Institute. $2.5 million to complete a preliminary engineering design for a novel process to produce green gasoline and diesel from woody biomass, agricultural residues and algae, in Des Plaines, Ill.
* Haldor Topsoe, Inc. $25 million to convert wood and green gasoline by fully integrating/optimizing a multi-step gasification process; the pilot plant in Des Plaines, Ill., will have the capacity to process 21 metric tons of feedstock per day.
* ICM, Inc. $25 million to modify an existing corn-ethanol facility in St. Joseph, Mo., to produce cellulosic ethanol from switchgrass and energy sorghum using biochemical conversion processes.
* Logos Technologies. $20.4 million to convert switchgrass and woody biomass into ethanol using a biochemical conversion process, in Visalia, Calif.
* Renewable Energy Institute International. $19.98 million to produce high-quality green diesel from agriculture and forest residues using advanced pyrolysis and steam reforming; the pilot plant in Toledo, Ohio, will have the capacity to process 25 dry tons of feedstock per day.
* Solazyme, Inc. $21.77 million to validate the projected economics of a commercial-scale biorefinery producing multiple advanced biofuels; the project in Riverside, Penn., will produce algae oil that can be converted to oil-based fuels.
* UOP LLC. $25 million to integrate existing technology from Ensyn and UOP to produce green gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from agricultural residue, woody biomass, dedicated energy crops and algae, in Kapolei, Hawaii.
* ZeaChem Inc. $25 million to use purpose-grown hybrid poplar trees to produce fuel-grade ethanol using hybrid technology; additional feedstocks such as agricultural residues and energy crops also will be evaluated in the pilot project, in Boardman, Ore.


The following are the demonstration-scale projects awarded:

* BioEnergy International LLC. $50 million to biologically produce succinic acid from sorghum; the process being developed in Lake Providence, La., displaces petroleum-based feedstocks and uses less energy per ton of succinic acid produced than its petroleum counterpart.
* Enerkem Corp. $50 million for project that will be sited an existing landfill in Pontotoc, Miss., and use feedstocks such as woody biomass and biomass removed from municipal solid waste to produce ethanol and other green chemicals through gasification and catalytic processes.
* INEOS New Planet BioEnergy, LLC. $50 million to produce ethanol and electricity from wood and vegetative residues and construction and demolition materials; the facility in Vero Beach, Fla., will combine biomass gasification and fermentation and will have the capacity to produce 8 million gallons of ethanol and 2 megawatts of electricity per year by the end of 2011.
* Sapphire Energy, Inc. $50 million to cultivate algae in ponds that ultimately will be converted into green fuels, such as jet fuel and diesel, using the Dynamic Fuels refining process, in Columbus, New Mexico.


The following is increased funding to an existing biorefinery project:

* Bluefire LLC. $81 million to construct a facility that produces ethanol fuel from woody biomass, mill residue and sorted municipal solid waste; the Fulton, Miss., facility will have the capacity to produce 19 million gallons of ethanol per year.

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