{"id":3292,"date":"2008-07-18T10:43:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T10:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2008-07-18T10:43:49","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T10:43:49","slug":"biofuels_deathw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3292","title":{"rendered":"Biofuels Deathwatch Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/earth2tech.com\/2008\/01\/09\/earth2tech-maps-biofuels-deathwatch\/\">Craig Rubens<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Biofuel plants have been put on hold faster than your phone company\u2019s tech support line. With corn and soy prices hitting record high prices and an ethanol glut flooding the market, ethanol\u2019s profit margin per gallon has dropped to a meager 25 cents from $2. That\u2019s causing numerous ethanol and biodiesel plants to get put on hold or downright canceled. Hundreds of millions of gallons of production capacity and hundreds of millions of dollars in biofuel investments are now hanging in limbo, as investors hope prices will level out.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s not to say that ethanol is dead in the water. There\u2019s a variety of positive reports coming out on the future of the industry \u2014 there\u2019s reports that see a meaningful future for ethanol , as well reports saying ethanol could be deliver a better-than-expected energy return. Add in a healthy merger and acquisition market and biofuels will play a role in the future of weaning the U.S. off oil.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/earth2tech.com\/2008\/01\/09\/earth2tech-maps-biofuels-deathwatch\/\">Craig Rubens<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Biofuel plants have been put on hold faster than your phone company\u2019s tech support line. With corn and soy prices hitting record high prices and an ethanol glut flooding the market, ethanol\u2019s profit margin per gallon has dropped to a meager 25 cents from $2. That\u2019s causing numerous ethanol and biodiesel plants to get put on hold or downright canceled. Hundreds of millions of gallons of production capacity and hundreds of millions of dollars in biofuel investments are now hanging in limbo, as investors hope prices will level out.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s not to say that ethanol is dead in the water. There\u2019s a variety of positive reports coming out on the future of the industry \u2014 there\u2019s reports that see a meaningful future for ethanol , as well reports saying ethanol could be deliver a better-than-expected energy return. Add in a healthy merger and acquisition market and biofuels will play a role in the future of weaning the U.S. off oil.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,29,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}