Contrast that to the government pouring
billions into ethanol production because of warming hysteria.
Not exact matches
Congress in 2007 required that refiners blend 36
billion gallons of
ethanol into fuel supply by 2022.
Imagine if instead of spending over $ 2
billion a year in direct
ethanol subsidies, we directed that money
into conservation measures.
• Since 2007, the RFS, which requires fuel retailers to blend corn
ethanol into the gasoline they sell, has saddled American motorists with more than $ 10
billion per year in extra fuel costs above what they would have paid if they had purchased gasoline alone.
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 bill would eliminate the current mandate to blend 15
billion gallons of corn
ethanol into fuel by 2022 and ban
ethanol fuel content over ten percent.
The standard mandates that oil refiners blend 13.2
billion gallons of corn - based
ethanol into gasoline this year.
Pursuant to that law, an increasing amount of renewable fuel such as
ethanol — rising to 36
billion gallons in 2022 — must be introduced
into the market.
# 1 Turn food
into fuel... «Already, half of the nearly 11
billion bushels of corn produced each year is turned
into ethanol, and most new cars are capable of running on E10 (10 %
ethanol and 90 % gas).»
Between 1997 and 2007 US farmland declined by ~ 33 million acres [1]: if that land were put back
into corn production, it could produce 14
billion gallons of biofuel
ethanol [2] plus the additional food value of the DDGS.
BP, for example, has recently formed an alliance with
ethanol company Verenium, and is pouring
billions of dollars
into development.
Support Next Generation Biofuels Deploy Cellulosic
Ethanol: Obama will invest federal resources, including tax incentives, cash prizes and government contracts into developing the most promising technologies with the goal of getting the first two billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol into the system b
Ethanol: Obama will invest federal resources, including tax incentives, cash prizes and government contracts
into developing the most promising technologies with the goal of getting the first two
billion gallons of cellulosic
ethanol into the system b
ethanol into the system by 2013.
Which brings me to another advantage — domestic production of
ethanol resulted in over 220 million FEWER barrels of oil imported
into this country, saving over $ 16
billion going to foreign countries.