Sentences with phrase «big as the ethanol»
Well, that in total is bigger than the impact of ethanol, and the offshore part is about as big as the ethanol, but is it a lot?
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
Large biofuel firms like Abengoa Bioenergy U.S., Iberdrola U.S.A., Pacific Ethanol, and POET joined the pledge, while some of the biggest agriculture firms — like Cargill and Monsanto (MON)-- did as well.
Actually, MacCready predicts that the big market in the coming decade or two may not be so much for all - electric cars as for hybrid cars designed to run on batteries in pollution - choked cities and on gasoline — or natural gas, or ethanol, or hydrogen, or some other range - extending fuel — on long highway trips (though the way Americans drive now, 90 percent of all car trips fall within Impact's 120 - mile range).
And while I'm not personally a fan of ethanol, the plant described at the following link seems to address many of the concerns about ethanol and big - scale farming by treating wastes from one process as feedstock into another and reducing the amount of energy required at each stage.
First, we're Big Ethanol's biggest customers, buying billions of gallons a year, as a useful additive in E10 gasoline.
As this chart obviously demonstrates, the political love affair with «Big Ag» and corn ethanol has had a huge detrimental impact across the world.
«Ethanol should be saving us twice as much oil as it is today because we are letting really big, inefficient flex - fuel vehicles on the road,» said Nathanael Greene, senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
This has contributed to driving the cost of corn way up over the last year or two (there are other factors for the increase as well such as drought in Australia and booming demand among new middle classes in China and elsewhere but ethanol production is a big culprit).