Sentences with phrase «as the ethanol mandate»

A key inflationary factor is the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), commonly known as the ethanol mandate.

The study argues that the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), commonly known as the ethanol mandate, is detrimental to both non-ethanol industry corn users and food and fuel consumers.

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As a result, the government of that country has decided to mandate blending 1 percent of ethanol into gasoline for the first time.

The Obama administration seems to agree, granting $ 786 million in 2009 for biofuels research and setting up the Biofuels Interagency Working Group to study how best to meet the renewable fuel standard mandated by Congress that will require increasing the amount of renewable fuels, such as ethanol, to 36 billion gallons by 2022.

Obama has, however, also been a supporter of ethanol made primarily from corn — a prominent industry in his home state of Illinois — and recently told farmers he supports federal mandates to make nine billion gallons (34 billion liters) of ethanol to use as fuel this year.

«It takes 77 million years to make fossil fuels and 45 minutes to use as a coffee cup,» says Cereplast's Scheer, noting that his industry can use the residue of government - mandated production of biofuels, such as ethanol from corn.

As Coral Davenport reported in a piece that ran on Sunday, the power of the ethanol mandate is waning for a variety of reasons — some national, but others within Iowa's boundaries:

As Coral Davenport reported in a piece that ran on Sunday, the power of the ethanol mandate is waning for a variety of reasons — some national, but others within Iowa's boundaries: Read more...

Market - based principles should guide policymakers away from top - down, government - mandated ventures such as the flawed Renewable Fuel Standard — which could force higher ethanol blend fuels into the national supply, potentially damaging vehicle engines and saddling consumers with repair costs.

However, regular readers are aware that for years I have been deeply skeptical that cellulosic ethanol as envisioned by — and ultimately mandated by — the US government will be an economic and scalable fuel option.

The 73,000 gallons of cellulosic produced as of the end of July is about 1.8 % of the new EPA mandate (4 million gallons or 6 million «ethanol - equivalent» gallons).

Also of interest is the political reason why the ethanol mandate is so hard to get rid of: Rural Republican districts benefit hugely from the market distortion and some alt - fuel fanatics in D.C, such as Obama, love to stick it to the oil companies regardless of environmental impact.

You bet your bottom dollar the US ethanol production mandates were sold to the left as environmentally sound, but corn isn't exactly grown in bastions of liberaldom now is it.

Mandates and subsidies for fossil - fuel intensive biofuels such as corn - derived ethanol are so large that eliminating or reducing them would almost certainly do more than a carbon tax to curb these fuels» artificial price advantage.

We have wasted billions of dollars on such «strong» policies as coal - derived synfuels; subsidies for the commercialization of wind, solar and electric cars; and worst of all, the ethanol mandate.

The ethanol industry, already reeling from a draft plan for cuts in the ethanol mandate for this year, will now face more pressure as everyone from conservatives and environmental activists...

As biofuel mandates increase, the ethanol volume required for blending into gasoline will exceed 10 percent — known as the «E10 Blend Wall.&raquAs biofuel mandates increase, the ethanol volume required for blending into gasoline will exceed 10 percent — known as the «E10 Blend Wall.&raquas the «E10 Blend Wall.»

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.

The ethanol mandate was born more than a decade ago of good intentions: to reduce tailpipe emissions as part of a larger strategy of tackling global warming.

Information is available on the RFS itself, as well as problems that have made the program and its ethanol mandates untenable — like the refining «blend wall,» potential risks to vehicle and equipment engines and impacts on food prices.

The EPA and ethanol producers celebrated the announcement, but they seem to be the only ones as most other interest groups oppose the mandate in its current form.

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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.

But, as the failed US experience with the mandated and highly subsidized corn ethanol program has shown, this has negative side effects on overall farmland utilization and corn prices worldwide.

NERA set up its study that way for good reasons: Despite abundant evidence that RFS mandates for ever - increasing ethanol use in the nation's fuel supply are detached from reality, and although it's pretty clear EPA has mismanaged the RFS to the detriment of those obligated to meet its mandates — the ethanol industry insists that the program continue as statutorily set out in 2007.

Do you really not know that the rationale behind policies mandating ethanol was not as simple as you state?

... Consequently, refiners are up against a «blend wall» as the mandate forces them to purchase more ethanol than they can safely put into gasoline.»

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API Downstream Group Director Bob Greco told reporters EPA is right to use its waiver authority to set the requirements below the original congressional mandate, calling it an acknowledgment of the «market limitations of the ethanol blend wall» — the amount of ethanol that can be safely blended into the fuel supply as E10 gasoline that's standard across the country.

At issue is whether to suspend a five - year - old federal mandate requiring more ethanol in gasoline each year, a policy that has diverted almost half of the domestic corn supply from animal feedlots to ethanol refineries, driven up corn prices and plantings and created a desperate competition for corn as drought grips the nation's farm belt.

Federal law mandates that oil companies use 12 billion gallons of renewable fuels such as ethanol in this year, rising to 15 billion gallons by 2015.

Ben Affleck in a corn suit, Matt Damon dressed like a gas pump, Jennifer Garner employing a British accent and Tobin Bell and his «womb juice» all make an appearance, and, while we can't fault Phin's methods — employing celebs — or for the over-reaching message — that we need Congress to mandate cars that get better gas mileage — using corn - based ethanol as the flex - fuel crutch is not going to cut it.

But instead of doing the obvious — tax the damn thing — we go through spasms of destructive alternatives, such as efficiency standards, ethanol mandates and now a crazy carbon cap - and - trade system the Senate is debating this week.

The EPA announced yesterday that it would open a 30 day commenting period as it weighs requests from multiple state governors to use provisions in the Clean Air Act to temporarily suspend the corn ethanol mandate under the Renewable Fuel Standard: