Sentences with phrase «u.s. ethanol policy»

Professor Griffin, who directs the Mosbacher Institute, is also author of U.S. Ethanol Policy: Time to Reconsider?

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A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report said the Japanese policy change could create a market opportunity for U.S. ethanol producers of 366 million liters, valued at around $ 170 million.

A U.S. Department of Agriculture report said the Japanese policy change could create a market opportunity for U.S. ethanol producers of 366 million liters, valued at around $ 170 million.

Explaining the Reductions in U.S. Corn Ethanol Processing Costs: Testing Competing Hypotheses, Xiaoguang Chen, Madhu Khanna, Energy Policy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2012.01.032, February 9, 2012.

U.S. organizations promoting the global use of ethanol will continue to work closely with the Japanese government as it implements its new policy and provide updated technical information about GHG reductions and other benefits of corn - based ethanol.

Even former U.S. Vice President and Nobel laureate Al Gore — who once boasted of casting the deciding vote for ethanol support — calls the policy «a mistake.»

Lester R. Brown, «Exploding U.S. Grain Demand for Automotive Fuel Threatens World Food Security and Political Stability,» Plan B Update (Washington, DC: Earth Policy Institute, 3 November 2006); Lester R. Brown, «Distillery Demand for Grain to Fuel Cars Vastly Understated: World May Be Facing Highest Grain Prices in History,» Plan B Update (Washington, DC: Earth Policy Institute, 4 January 2007); F.O. Licht, World Ethanol and Biofuels Report, vol.

The National Commission on Energy Policy reported in December that, if fleet mileage in the U.S. rises to 40 mpg — somewhat below the current European Union fleet average for new vehicles of 42 mpg and well below the current Japanese average of 47 mpg - then as switchgrass yields improve modestly to around 10 tons / acre it would take only 30 million acres of land to produce sufficient cellulosic ethanol to fuel half the U.S. passenger fleet.

«It is not a good policy to have these massive subsidies for (U.S.) first generation ethanol,» Reuters reported Gore saying during a green energy summit in Athens.

Because of this policy, ethanol production now consumes approximately 40 percent of the U.S. corn crop, and the cost of corn for use in food production has increased by 193 percent since 2005 [the year before the RFS took effect].

The Earth Policy Institute has noted that even if the entire U.S. grain crop were converted to ethanol (leaving no domestic crop to make bread, rice, pasta, or feed the animals from which we get meat, milk, and eggs), it would satisfy at most 18 percent of U.S. automotive fuel needs.