Sentences with phrase «u.s. ethanol production»

Indeed, an article in Popular Science cites a study by the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University that predicts that U.S. ethanol production could consume more than half of corn, wheat and coarse grains by 2012, ratcheting up food prices and potentially causing massive shortages.

U.S. ethanol production shot up by more than 3 billion gallons (150 %) between 2001 and 2006, and corn production increased 11 %, while total U.S. harvested cropland fell by about 2 % in the same period.

With U.S. ethanol production projected to nearly double between 2007 and the end of 2008, U.S. output will jump to 13 billion gallons.

* U.S. ethanol production falls 32,000 bpd to 872,000 bpd * U.S. weekly ethanol stocks rise to 18.8 mln barrels (Corrects recent high in ethanol futures to three - year high from record high, paragraph eight) By Michael Hirtzer CHICAGO, July 13 (Reuters)- U.S. ethanol production fell 3.5 percent while stocks climbed in the latest reporting week, despite profitable margins at many biofuel refineries.

Not exact matches

When former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said last fall that his earlier enthusiasm for corn - based ethanol production in the United States was a mistake, he was conceding something that had long been obvious: the practice of diverting food crops to biofuels has contributed to food shortages and driven up prices for staples across the globe.

And Brazil, arguably the world leader in making ethanol from crops, has been turning sugar cane into fuel for nearly three decades — a process that is 30 % cheaper than corn - based production in the U.S.

Since then, corn ethanol production has more than doubled to about 36.5 million gallons per day — meaning ethanol already is nearly 10 percent of U.S. fuel supply.

Life - Cycle Greenhouse Gas Implications of U.S. National Scenarios for Cellulosic Ethanol Production, Corinne Scown, William Nazaroff, Umakant Mishra, Bret Strogen, Agnes Lobscheid, Eric Masanet, Nicholas Santero, Arpad Horvath, Thomas McKone, Environmental Research Letters, 7 (1), doi: 10.1088 / 1748-9326/7 / 1 / 014011, January 24, 2012.

Ethanol production has boomed in the U.S. since the late 2000s, largely due to heavy government subsidies.

In Brazil, fossil fuels are not part of biofuel production, while in the U.S., corn ethanol production relies heavily on fossil fuels.

In fact, cumulative new ethanol production since 2005 has accounted for 62 % of new domestically - produced liquid fuels, while cumulative new U.S. crude oil production has accounted for 38 %.

Even though not a gallon of cellulosic ethanol has been manufactured in the U.S., the EPA has continued to predict fantastical production volumes: approximately 5 million gallons in 2010, 6.6 million in 2011, 8.7 million in 2012 and a whopping 14 million gallons for 2013.

It is affordable, but in the U.S. we punish Brazilian ethanol with a $ 0.54 / gallon tariff to protect our unsustainable corn ethanol production.

For cellulosic ethanol production just to match this output, the grasses or trees must achieve almost double the national cellulosic yields estimated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and two to four times the perennial grass yields farmers actually achieve today in the United States.

Dedicating the entire U.S. corn crop to ethanol production would only offset 15 percent of gasoline demand.

It's now well - established that large - scale U.S. production of biofuels such as ethanol from corn has accomplished little or nothing (or even negative) in its stated goals of reducing oil dependence and cutting emissions of greenhouse gases, and has functioned instead as a full - employment program for agribusiness (and a political production racket for Iowa and other corn - growing states).

Almost all of this derives from corn, with one bushel of corn yielding about 2.7 gallons of ethanol and about 28 % of the U.S. corn crop going toward ethanol production.

Alternative feedstocks are needed to boost ethanol production, Saha said, and the 1.3 billion tons of biomass available in the U.S. would be sufficient to produce the total amount of oil the country imports each year.

With EPA receiving public input on its proposed ethanol - use volumes for 2018, it's important to see that America's energy renaissance in natural gas and oil production is the biggest reason for the progress the U.S. has made toward those RFS objectives.

``... the U.S. Department of Agriculture was subsidizing ethanol production from the start by providing grants to purchase special ethanol blender pumps.

Ethanol production has expanded and the U.S. has been a net exporter of ethanol sincEthanol production has expanded and the U.S. has been a net exporter of ethanol sincethanol since 2010.

According to the USDA, nearly forty percent of the 2017 U.S. corn crop will be diverted to ethanol production, and just over 1/3 of the oil produced from soybeans, the leading source of vegetable oil in the U.S., will be diverted to biodiesel production in 2017/18.

Gary Schnitkey, Darrel Good, and Paul Ellinger, «Crude Oil Price Variability and Its Impact on Break — Even Corn Prices,» Farm Business Management, 30 May 2007; 2006 grain used for ethanol from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS), Feed Grains Database, at www.ers.usda.gov, updated 28 September 2007; 2006 grain harvest from USDA, Production, Supply and Distribution, electronic database at www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline, updated 12 September 2007; 2008 ethanol requirement from Renewable Fuels Association, «Ethanol Biorefinery Locations,» at www.ethanolrfa.org, updated 28 September 2007; 2008 grain harvest from Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee, Agricultural Projections to 2016 (Washington, DC: USDA, Februaryethanol from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS), Feed Grains Database, at www.ers.usda.gov, updated 28 September 2007; 2006 grain harvest from USDA, Production, Supply and Distribution, electronic database at www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline, updated 12 September 2007; 2008 ethanol requirement from Renewable Fuels Association, «Ethanol Biorefinery Locations,» at www.ethanolrfa.org, updated 28 September 2007; 2008 grain harvest from Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee, Agricultural Projections to 2016 (Washington, DC: USDA, Februaryethanol requirement from Renewable Fuels Association, «Ethanol Biorefinery Locations,» at www.ethanolrfa.org, updated 28 September 2007; 2008 grain harvest from Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee, Agricultural Projections to 2016 (Washington, DC: USDA, FebruaryEthanol Biorefinery Locations,» at www.ethanolrfa.org, updated 28 September 2007; 2008 grain harvest from Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee, Agricultural Projections to 2016 (Washington, DC: USDA, February 2007).

Bloomberg Businessweek explains more clearly than EPA does why the agency had to back - peddle so furiously: «The Environmental Protection Agency proposed requiring less cellulosic ethanol to be blended into gasoline next year than sought under U.S. law because production of the alternative fuel hasn't reached commercial scale.»

William Astley says: March 10, 2012 at 1:56 am ---- snip --- The Clean Energy Scam The U.S. quintupled its production of ethanol — ethyl alcohol, a fuel distilled from plant matter — in the past decade, and Washington has just mandated another fivefold increase in renewable fuels over the next decade.

The Clean Energy Scam The U.S. quintupled its production of ethanol — ethyl alcohol, a fuel distilled from plant matter — in the past decade, and Washington has just mandated another fivefold increase in renewable fuels over the next decade.

An ethanol mandate that causes little economic harm when unemployment rates are low, corn production is high, and China's demand for U.S. corn imports is low could inflict severe harm when the opposite conditions obtain — as they do today.

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 U.S. and other countries passed legislation that provides incentives for the increased production of biofuels (e.g. ethanol, etc.).

Producers generally sell directly to fueling stations, which explains why ethanol has taken root in the Midwest, center of U.S. corn production, or send it by rail to terminals to be blended with gasoline.

U.S. consumption of corn to supply domestic ethanol production created a global corn frenzy which drove up prices and spurred expansion of croplands around the planet.

[31][65] Ethanol production requires significant energy, and current U.S. production derives most of that energy from domestic coal, natural gas and other non-oil sources.

According to a 2008 analysis by Iowa State University, the growth in U.S. ethanol fuel production caused retail gasoline prices to be 29 — 40 cents per gallon lower than would otherwise have been the case.

One rationale for ethanol production in the U.S. is increased energy security, from shifting supply from oil imports to domestic sources.

BIOFUELS (XLS PDF U.S. Highlights) World Annual Fuel Ethanol Production, 1975 - 2009 U.S. Annual Fuel Ethanol Production, 1978 - 2009 World Annual Biodiesel Production, 1991 - 2009 U.S. Annual Biodiesel Production, 2000 - 2009 NATURAL GAS (XLS PDF) World Natural Gas Consumption, 1965 - 2008 U.S. Natural Gas Consumption, 1965 - 2008 Natural Gas Consumption in China, 1965 - 2008 OIL (XLS PDF) World Oil Production, 1950 - 2008 World's 20 Largest Oil Discoveries U.S. Oil Consumption, 1965 - 2008 Oil Consumption in China, 1965 - 2008 COAL (XLS PDF) Coal Consumption in Selected Countries and the World, 1980 - 2008 NUCLEAR (XLS PDF) World Cumulative Installed Nuclear Electricity - Generating Capacity, 1970 - 2008 ENERGY PROFILES BY REGION World Energy Profile (XLS PDF) United States Energy Profile (XLS PDF) China Energy Profile (XLS PDF Highlights) Top of Page

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And the International Monetary Fund has documented that since their peak in July 2008, oil prices declined by 69 % as of December 2008, and global food prices declined by 33 % during the same period, while U.S. corn production has remained at 12 billion bushels a month, one - third of which is still used for ethanol production.

Already, ethanol production consumes about 40 % of the annual U.S. corn crop.

As noted previously on this site (here and here), Vilsack and the RFA tout a study by Iowa State University's Center for Agricultural Research and Development (CARD), which concluded that if ethanol production had remained at year 2000 levels, the U.S. motor fuel supply would have been billions of gallons smaller and, thus, significantly pricier in 2010 and 2011.

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Increases in ethanol production since 2007 have made little, or no, contribution to U.S. energy supplies, or dependence on foreign crude oil.

Over a year ago, the U.S. Congress passed a law requiring massive increases in the production of ethanol and other biofuels.

Ed Schafer, the U.S. agriculture secretary, tried to deflect blame from the ethanol subsidies, claiming biofuel production only accounted for 2 - 3 % of the rise in food prices.

In the United States, the sugar - cane industry has had little incentive to diversify into ethanol production because import quotas support U.S. sugar prices far above world levels.

By subsidizing the production of ethanol, now to the tune of some $ 6 billion each year, U.S. taxpayers are in effect subsidizing rising food bills at home and around the world.

Currently, about 20 % of the corn produced in the U.S. is used to make ethanol, and she estimates that, under the best scenarios, this amount could be tripled to the equivalent of 60 % of the 2006 corn production.

The anti-ethanol crowd likes to make this fun calculation despite the fact that no one in the ethanol industry believes or promotes that all the corn in the U.S. should / will / can be used for ethanol production.

In 2006, 17 % of the U.S. corn crop was used for ethanol production.

Instead of subsidizing the production of corn ethanol, the U.S. government should subsidize that of sugar ethanol - which is taxed under the law - he argued.

The U.S. lacks criteria to ensure that cellulosic ethanol production will not harm the environment, warn scientists writing in the journal Science.