Sentences with phrase «u.s. ethanol use»

Ethanol production costs and prices have ruled out U.S. ethanol use at levels higher than E10.

Not exact matches

Much of the ETBE used in Japan is already made in the United States using Brazilian sugarcane ethanol, so the new rules should make it easy for producers to switch quickly to U.S. corn - based sources.

«Due to the large U.S. trade deficit, it was clear that ethanol could be one of those products used to reduce the imbalance,» the diplomat said.

Corn is increasingly being used to convert into ethanol in the U.S. and in high demand in China where it it used to feed into the meat industry, and it has yet to be seen how this year's significant loss in harvest will impact grain use across the globe.

The Obama administration made a concerted effort to transform the U.S. transportation system with battery startups, regulations that ramp up the use of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels, and a near doubling of fuel efficiency requirements for light - duty cars and trucks.

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.

The U.S. is about to hit the «blending wall,» the saturation point for ethanol use, because it does not have the infrastructure to meet the federal mandate for renewable - fuels use with ethanol.

Mid-range gasoline - ethanol blends (greater than 10 percent and less than 85 percent ethanol) should only be used in vehicles approved for their use by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Canada currently maintains a 5 % domestic ethanol mandate on use while the U.S. is working towards a target of 136 billion liters of biofuels blended into transportation fuels by 2022.

The Congressional Research Service has estimated that even if 100 percent of the U.S. corn harvest were dedicated to ethanol, it would displace less than 15 percent of national gasoline use.

The capacity of corn ethanol to offset U.S. fossil fuel use is extremely limited.

For example, a 2012 study headed by Michael Wang of the Argonne National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy projected that the corn - based ethanol found at practically all U.S. fuel pumps would cut carbon emissions by around 34 percent in 2015 (Table 7), even when considering changes in land use.

Wes Bolsen, CMO and head of government affairs at Coskata, discussed a recent Sandia National Labs and General Motors study demonstrating that 90 billion gallons of feedstock - flexible ethanol is possible in the U.S. without a significant change in current land use.

To produce enough corn - based ethanol to meet current U.S. demand for automotive gasoline, we would need to nearly double the amount of land used for harvested crops, plant all of it in corn, year after year, and not eat any of it.»

The use of ethanol produced from corn in the U.S. and sugar cane in Brazil has given birth to the commercialization of an alternative fuel that is coming to show substantial promise, particularly as new feedstocks are developed.

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.

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).

The Trump decision to permit year - round 15 - per - cent blends may be a shell game of another kind, since it's expected to be coupled with a transfer of ethanol subsidies from U.S. domestic consumption to exports, a move that could decimate ethanol use in the U.S..

Reform legislation in the U.S. by environmental - leaning Democrats — New Mexico's Tom Udall and Vermont's Peter Welch — is now gathering support in both houses of Congress, aided by an environmental lobby determined to end subsidies to ethanol as well as its mandated use.

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].

On longer drives, it would use a fuel mix of 80 % ethanol — alcohol, in the U.S. made mainly from corn — and 20 % gas.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering scaling back legal requirements on the use of ethanol next year amid complaints from refiners that statutory mandates would exceed their ability to blend it into fuels without putting engines at risk.

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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.

Ethanol now constitutes roughly 10 % of the motor fuel used by U.S. passenger vehicles.

For example, starch from corn grown in the midwest has traditionally been the source of some of the ethanol used as a fuel additive in the U.S.. Another option for the conversion of cellulosic biomass, such as hemp stalks, to ethanol is their hydrolysis to sugar, followed by fermentation and removal of the produced ethanol by distillation.

Non-food based ethanol sources offer huge potential for reducing U.S. oil use, as they reduce or eliminate competition with food crops, and could be widely available.

Learn more about how non-food based ethanol is one part of the UCS plan to reduce projected U.S. oil use in half in twenty years, and what you can do to help make this plan a reality.

In 2014, over 40 percent of corn grown in the U.S. was used to make ethanol, according to data from the United States Department of Agriculture.

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.

Then came the explosion in grain used in U.S. ethanol distilleries, which jumped from 54 million tons in 2006 to 95 million tons in 2008.

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.

It has been estimated that «if every bushel of U.S. corn, wheat, rice and soybean were used to produce ethanol, it would only cover about 4 % of U.S. energy needs on a net basis.»

«Even if we used all of our corn to make ethanol, with nothing left for food or animal feed, we could only displace perhaps 1.5 million barrels per day of this demand [U.S. consumption is 21 million barrels per day].

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The level of gasoline consumption limits the amount of ethanol that may be used in the gasoline pool at any fixed blending level, such as the 10 % ethanol blend (E10) that is predominant in the current U.S. gasoline supply.

«If every one of the 70 million acres on which corn was grown in 2006 was used for ethanol, the amount produced would displace only 12 percent of the U.S. gasoline market.

The Congressional mandate for ethanol is clearly affecting land use in the U.S.) >> Please don't compare apples and oranges — or in this case cellulose and corn.

Performed detail calculations to design Ethanol plants using corn feed stock for various U.S. projects.