Sentences with phrase «quota for ethanol»
A version of this article appears in print on August 17, 2012, on Page B1 of the New York edition with the headline: In Drought, A Debate Over Quota For Ethanol.
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During the period under evaluation by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, America's Soviet - style production quota for ethanol, a motor fuel distilled from corn, increased almost 4 billion gallons, or 104 billion pounds of maize.
Not exact matches
BIOFUELS: An overhaul of the nation's Renewable Fuel Standard will include fewer waivers for small refineries and allow ethanol exports to count toward federal biofuels quotas, according to a source.
Unfortunately, the Environmental Protection Agency did just that last week, setting new quotas for 2012 that will require the nation's refiners to add 8.65 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol to America's fuel supplies.
But ethanol producers worry that the loss of the quota will undermine the ethanol industry and do little for corn farmers but drive down the price of their stunted harvest.