1-Star Stocks Poised to Plunge: Green Plains?

• Report this Comment On March 02, 2010, at 10:43 AM, satre6 wrote:

  You really need to do a little due diligence before you put such drivel out in the public. Food for fuel is a joke. Corn prices are at a very low price, ethanol production is over 12 billion gallons and there is no shortage of food due to ethanol production. GPRE has more than quadrupled in size over the past 2 years and has a lead on algae production which is a secondary source of fuel and a carbon sequestration issue. Oil is around $80, gasoline is $2.10 ethanol is $1.70 and we don't have any farmers touting "nuclear threats". More importantly the money stays at home.

• Report this Comment On March 04, 2010, at 5:02 PM, NebrCornhead wrote:

  GPRE is here to stay. With corporate leaders who know the business, the company has diversified across other areas of agriculture. If GPRE isn't a sure bet, than neither is the farmer or trains & trucks that haul the fuel and bi products. You have to be in this company for the long haul. Considering foreign company's latest goofs in the auto industry, GPRE gives us confidence in another of Americas companies.

• Report this Comment On March 04, 2010, at 10:04 PM, Gary399210 wrote:

  The most important report ever published on ethanol has just been released to the public.

  March 4, 2010

  It is the long awaiting EPA report on the implementation of the law passed by Congress and signed by the President entitled, the New Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2). The law for RFS2 requires the use of 36 billion gallons of by 2022, up from 11.9 billion gallons required in 2010.

  A few of the significant quotes from the EPA report are these:

  1.” The government’s new RFS2 will have a wide-ranging economic impact far beyond its effect on fuel producers, creating winners---and losers next decade. One of the biggest winners under the new regulations is corn-based ethanol”.

  2. The EPA states:”We are projecting that renewable fuel production costs will decline and crude oil prices will rise to the point that renewable fuels are less expensive that gasoline and diesel fuel, even in the absence of tax subsidies. This implies that market forces will lead to a greater increase in renewable fuel volumes, even in the absence of government requirements.

  3. “The EPA believes that cellulosic renewable fuels are least likely to achieve the government mandates due to market forces alone”. This implies that corn ethanol is most likely to reach the government mandates due to market forces alone.

  4. The EPA projects a major buildup in E85 facilities. “Overall the EPA estimates that it will take $3 billion to upgrade the E85 facilities enough to meet the requirements of the new government standards”

  5. In a separate report quoted in the Kiplinger report on biofuels, the headline reads, “Shipping Ethanol via Pipeline Is Very Efficient”.

  The Kiplinger Market Alert contains details on these statements above as well as other significant information. Again we think the EPA report on RFS2 is the most significant report ever written on the production and use of ethanol in the U. S. We urge you to read it, study it, and bring yourself and others up-to-date on the latest important developments in ethanol.

  The gradual transition to using more ethanol will be one of the most important changes in the history of the industrialized world.

• Report this Comment On March 05, 2010, at 11:46 AM, E85Prices wrote:

  Rather amused every time I hear that ethanol is dead nonsense.

  Ethanol production as stated by poster satre6 is at nearly 12 billion gallons this year up from a little over 10 billion gallons last year. Corn prices have fallen from nearly $8 a bushel to around $3.50-$4.00 a bushel.

  General Motors specifically asked for another 10,000 E85 Pumps as they ramp up Flex Fuel Vehicle production ..50% of production to be FV by 2012 and 80% by 2015 .

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