Sentences with phrase «cellulosic ethanol mandates»

Whereas early estimates — the ones that helped spur the cellulosic ethanol mandates — put the cost at $ 30 a ton, the actual costs are more like $ 80 to $ 130 a ton.

Overview: Mandates, Zero Production, Penalties, and the Failure of the Current System In the previous post, I discussed the annual ritual of rolling back the cellulosic ethanol mandates by 90 % or more.

Last week the EPA dismissed a petition by the American Petroleum Institute seeking relief from the cellulosic ethanol mandate, which requires that oil refiners blend 8.65 million gallons of ethanol into the fuel supply by the end of 2012:

The government spent some money and put in place a cellulosic ethanol mandate, but there is still no economically viable way to make cellulosic ethanol.

Not exact matches

The United States expanded its federal biofuels mandate in a 2007 law to reach 36 billion gallons by 2022, with up to 15 billion gallons coming from corn ethanol and the balance from so - called advanced biofuels like cellulosic ethanol.

EPA mandates cellulosic ethanol, which has never been produced, except a few gallons by a tax payer funded new venture.

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.

For three years running, cellulosic ethanol production will come in far, far short of the mandated target volumes.

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).

Yet another green initiative failure / myth not reported in the MSM: Cellulosic Ethanol fall way short of government mandates yet again.

There's just one problem: Despite Washington's mandates — which fall on refiners and producers of motor fuels like ExxonMobil — cellulosic ethanol doesn't actually exist in any meaningful volumes.

Washington originally figured the industry could produce 1 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol annually by 2013, so that's where it set the mandate for last year.

The 2005 energy bill and a 2007 revamp mandated increasing volumes of cellulosic ethanol be blended into the nation's gasoline and diesel supplies each year through 2022.

«The Toomey - Feinstein partial repeal would make the RFS even more burdensome for Americans because it will focus the mandate on costly phantom fuels like cellulosic ethanol.

By favoring costly, non-existent cellulosic biofuels over corn - based ethanol, Clinton's fuel mandate would resemble California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).

It mandated cellulosic ethanol quotas in 2010 and 2011, which failed abysmally, according to the EPA's own data.

For the 2014 mandates, EPA has proposed 17 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol — with up to nine million gallons to come from KiOR, which is now again looking highly unlikely.