Sentences with phrase «u.s. fuel supply»

That's what we draw from EPA's requirements for levels of corn ethanol and other renewable fuels that must be blended into the U.S. fuel supply.

A decade ago Congress passed legislation creating the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)-- requiring escalating volumes of ethanol in the U.S. fuel supply — that was intended in part to help reduce crude oil imports while capitalizing the supposed environmental advantages of ethanol.

Corn ethanol has gone a long way — it now makes up 10 % of the U.S. fuel supply.

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.

Utilizing existing tax collection mechanisms, a carbon tax is paid «upstream,» i.e., at the point where fuels are extracted from the Earth and put into the stream of commerce, or imported into the U.S. Fuel suppliers and processors are free to pass along the cost of the tax to the extent that market conditions allow.

Not exact matches

They argue that possible sanctions on the Venezuelan energy sector would harm the U.S. industry, and cause it to scramble for heavy crude supplies from elsewhere, which would result in higher fuel prices for consumers.

CHS is the largest farmer - and rancher - owned cooperative in the U.S. and provides the stuff farmers need to grow crops — fuel and farm supplies — and then buys growers» harvests to either sell or process.

(For a graphic on U.S. product supplied of jet fuel, as well as U.S. refinery production of jet fuel, see: tmsnrt.rs / 2E4BpCp)

The network will bring cheaper fuel supplies for power generation and industry being built in the eastern half of Canada and the United States, especially along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

In 2016, the latest year for which data is available, fossil fuel - generated power and transportation each supplied about 34 percent of total U.S. CO2 emissions, according to the annual EPA report.

If we devoted 23 million acres in the southeastern United States to lipidcane with 20 percent oil, we estimate that this crop could produce 65 percent of the U.S. jet fuel supply.

Like fossil fuel development or not, the Kemper plant is at the center of U.S. EPA's plans to regulate carbon dioxide from new power plants and at the center of global emissions, considering that «low - rank» coals like Mississippi lignite constitute half the world's coal supply.

If oil - intensive algae were cultivated on a broad scale — the kind of scale now used for other commercial crops — they could eventually replace the 70 percent of the U.S. oil supply used for transportation in the form of jet fuel, gasoline, and diesel, according to Weeks.

There is not enough oil from plants such as soy and canola to supply even a fraction of the 60 million — plus gallons of jet fuel burned every day by U.S. aircraft, nearly one quarter of global use, even if all such sources were converted to fuel (which would significantly impact food supplies.)

Supporters of the renewable fuels industry turned out en masse on Thursday, desperate for the U.S. government to change course after last month announcing a plan to lower the amount of biofuels that must be added to the fuel supply in 2014.

Fabrication of the fuel pellets for the Mars 2020 MMRTG, using the existing U.S. supply of plutonium dioxide, is already underway.

And algae grower Solazyme recently won a contract to supply more than 75,500 liters of fuel derived from algae oil to the U.S. Navy, which would be a first for the industry.

With 436 reactors worldwide consuming 65,000 metric tons (one metric ton equals 1.1 U.S. tons) of enriched uranium per year, demand for this nuclear reactor fuel outstrips available supply, which has caused uranium prices to jump from a low of $ 10 per pound a few years ago to more than $ 130 per pound in 2007 and still more than $ 50 per pound today.

The year's output was enough to supply roughly one quarter of the annual fuel needs of the 104 U.S. nuclear reactors, according to World Nuclear Association (WNA) figures.

Changes in U.S. climate policy — and not just in the supply and cost of fuels — will play a big role in accelerating or slowing shifts in the U.S. energy mix, Quigley and the authors agree.

As President Obama's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future continues to ponder what role nuclear power might play in the U.S. electricity supply, a group of scientists, engineers and other experts assembled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) released a report on the nuclear fuel cycle paid for by the nuclear industry.

«The idea that U.S. regulations that aren't shared by other supplier countries could be an effective influence on fuel risk is probably not a very good idea,» says Smith.

At the leading edge of U.S. nuclear technology development, Centrus is dedicated to the long - term growth of the commercial U.S. nuclear fuel supply and the expansion of the commercial nuclear power industry worldwide.

The fuel supplied 10 % of U.S. electricity needs for two decades while permanently eliminating 20,000 warheads worth of weapons - grade material by the time the last shipment of fuel was received at the end of 2013.

Aside from clusters of hydrogen stations in California, the U.S. is largely bereft of the architecture needed to supply the Nexo with the hydrogen fuel it needs.

Demand for the fuel will rise, but supply may be hampered because the U.S. does not have many refineries for diesel fuel.

When a security breach at Hoover Dam takes all the U.S. hydroelectric power stations offline the day after a category five hurricane hits the Gulf of Mexico, cutting off electricity to millions and threatening an already compromised fuel supply, Cash figures it's time to chase those white lines home to Tennessee.By the time he hits Chicago, the lights are out across the country, throwing America into a new dark age in which only the strong and the prepared will survive.READER NOTE: This is Part One of the (separately available) three - part novel Long Haul...

Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, Valero Energy Corporation is the world's largest independent petroleum refiner and marketer, supplying fuel and products with 16 refineries and 10 ethanol plants stretching from the U.S. West and Gulf coasts to Canada, the United Kingdom and the Caribbean.

CARBON; FIRE; GAS; NOISE; SILENCE; PLASTIC; DIET COKE; DEBRIS; PRODUCT; ALLUMINUM [sic]; INFORMATION; COPY; MARKETING; TRASH; VOICES; BURPS; RECORDINGS; RADIO; CC; FORM - EXFORM; THEORIES; POST-PUNK-POST-PRODUCT; STRATEGIC UNPREDICTABILITY; BORDER - MEXICO - U.S.. In the lead - up to her third solo exhibition at Greenspon, Mexico City - based Adriana Lara supplied this dizzying end - times vocab list to half a dozen writers as fuel for a series of original conspiracy theories, making the (suitably paranoid) results available in the gallery as simple printed handouts.

Groundwater contamination is rife — there's the chromium in the Erin Brokovitch case, there's MTBE in groundwater all across the state of California, and other areas have rocket fuel residues like perchlorate, commonly found in small amounts in much lettuce grown in the U.S. Agricultural drainage is also full of fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, which ends up in rivers and lakes that feed into municipal water supplies.

The two researchers plan to produce a new report in early fall on how methane leaks in the natural gas supply chain are further shrinking the impact the fuel has in reducing U.S. carbon emissions.

I start (and started) from the premise that the dramatic decline in crude oil prices that took place from August, 2014 ($ 96 / barrel), to March, 2015 ($ 44 / barrel), was due — on the one hand — to decreased demand, a function of slow economic growth in Asia, Europe, and elsewhere, endogenous, price - driven technological change leading to greater fuel efficiency, and policy - driven technological change that also has been leading to greater fuel efficiency, such as more stringent Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards in the United States; and — on the other hand — was due to increased supply, partly a function of the growth of unconventional (tight) U.S. oil production (a product of the combination of two technologies — horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturifuel efficiency, and policy - driven technological change that also has been leading to greater fuel efficiency, such as more stringent Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards in the United States; and — on the other hand — was due to increased supply, partly a function of the growth of unconventional (tight) U.S. oil production (a product of the combination of two technologies — horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturifuel efficiency, such as more stringent Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards in the United States; and — on the other hand — was due to increased supply, partly a function of the growth of unconventional (tight) U.S. oil production (a product of the combination of two technologies — horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturiFuel Economy (CAFE) standards in the United States; and — on the other hand — was due to increased supply, partly a function of the growth of unconventional (tight) U.S. oil production (a product of the combination of two technologies — horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing).

DoD would require more than 40 percent of the total projected U.S. drop - in renewable fuel supply (regardless of fuel type) in 2020, just to meet the military Services» stated demand for 745 million gallons.

Even U.S. President George Bush in his January 2007 State of the Union address pledged to «increase the supply of alternative fuels by setting a mandatory fuels standard to require 35 billion gallons of renewable and alternative fuels in 2017 — and that is nearly five times the current target.»

Nine years ago, U.S. President George W. Bush passed the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) with the goal of lessening America's dependence on foreign oil supplies and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Some estimates show the U.S., Canada and Mexico could supply virtually all of our liquid fuel needs from right here in North America by 2020.

Canada and Mexico serve as top suppliers of crude oil and also as top export destinations for U.S. refined products such as motor gasoline, kerosene - type jet fuel and other commodities.

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, February 2007).

Last year, the paper reports, 30 percent of power in the U.S. came from natural gas, up from 19 percent in 2005, driven by hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling that have unlocked large and inexpensive new supplies of the fuel.

«Unlike in the 1970s, today only 2 % of U.S. electricity is generated from oil, so plug in hybrids enable the transportation sector to tap into the array of vast domestic and much easier to secure energy resources which power our grid, and thus can increase vehicle fuel choice and greatly reduce our dependence on hostile suppliers of oil.»

The plentiful, affordable and dependable supply of U.S. natural gas, coupled with the fuel's environmental advantages, makes it a logical alternative, because it achieves what were once thought to be mutually exclusive goals: providing more energy with a smaller impact on our environment.

The Western Fuels Association is a cooperative of utilities and power companies supplying coal from the Powder River Basin in the western U.S.

Mandating the use of renewable fuels has, thus far, been a failed experiment; the lack of commercial - scale cellulosic biofuels plants in the U.S. has left it unclear if even a drop of cellulosic biofuel was blended into the fuel supply in 2011.

Rather, the agency set ethanol requirements higher and higher with no apparent regard for falling U.S. gasoline consumption, allowing the RFS to drive the country headlong toward the «ethanol blend wall» — and potential harms from forcing more ethanol into the fuel supply than it can safely absorb.

Although the Keystone State was thought to have tapped out its big - time energy supplies long ago, Pennsylvania was key to the rise of oil and coal that fueled U.S. industry in the 19th and 20th centuries.

So, just how do we get to energy security - to the point where, by 2030, 92 percent of America's liquid fuel needs is supplied by a combination of U.S. and Canadian sources?

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government delivered more than twice as many federal dollars to research initiatives, tax incentives and other programs benefiting fossil fuels than it supplied to renewable energy from 2002 to 2008, according to a report released Friday by two public policy groups.

Fossil fuels supplied about 81 % of the primary energy consumed in the United States and were responsible for about 93 % of total U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from human activity in 2015.

The U.S. government delivered more than twice as many federal dollars to research initiatives, tax incentives and other programs benefiting fossil fuels than it supplied to renewable energy from 2002 to 2008.

A U.S. Department of Energy proposed rulemaking would reward power plants that have 90 days of fuel supply onsite.