Sentences with phrase «corn ethanol industry»

I would not advocate pulling the support out from under the corn ethanol industry, but I would be looking for an exit strategy.

Aurora is one of dozens of start - ups vying to bring an algae - based product to market that will be competitive with petroleum but does not take farmland out of food production, an issue that has plagued the corn ethanol industry.

Among other things, Mr. King claimed that a 2008 reduction of $ 0.06 per gallon in the now - expired ethanol blenders credit brought the expansion of the corn ethanol industry to a standstill.

Our TransFerm and TransFerm Yield + bioengineered yeast products are widely used in the corn ethanol industry and our next generation products are ready to deploy for industrial cellulosic ethanol production.

Then we looked at the U.S. corn ethanol industry, and how they separated the corn oil.

Not exact matches

Corn is increasingly being used to convert into ethanol in the U.S. and in high demand in China where it it used to feed into the meat industry, and it has yet to be seen how this year's significant loss in harvest will impact grain use across the globe.

In addition to ethanol, LifeLine also creates corn oil for the biodiesel industry, thus enabling it to cut down on waste while expanding its market reach.

Meanwhile, new reports in the United States showed that two million acres of native grasslands have been converted to corn and soy monocultures in the past five years alone, driven in part by government subsidies and targets for the ethanol industry.

«When we started our company 27 years ago with a bankrupt corn ethanol plant, there was the same question about that industry as there is about cellulosic: Would it ever be viable?»

The corn and ethanol industries already get federal help, before carbon capture money from the Department of Energy comes into play, he said.

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.

The transition to lighter more efficient electrified vehicles has barely started but is strongly opposed by the oil, gas, ethanol, corn and many ICEVs associated industries.

In what would certainly be a huge blow to the US» formidable corn - ethanol industry, the California Air Resources Board is readying a report that says ethanol is worse than oil in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

Witness for example how corn ethanol, the darling of big agribusiness, some farmers, the oil industry and many environmentalists — has fallen out of favor in public perception.

The report claims that the corn ethanol refinery industry will not significantly offset U.S. fossil fuel consumption without unacceptable environmental -LSB-...]

The LCFS regulation also levies the calculation of Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) effects against biofuels, against the opposition (earlier post) of the biofuels industry, and to the particular detriment of corn ethanol.

The agreement calls for support of the «rapidly growing wind energy, corn ethanol and biodiesel industries,» and for recognition of the «potential for robust cellulosic biomass and solar industries.»

In June 2011, the ethanol industry voluntarily ended the main corn ethanol tax credit, known as the VEETC, as well as the ethanol import tariff.

As I wrote last week, Peterson appears to be frightened that if the EPA goes on record admitting that corn - based ethanol is an ecological bust, the industry could be penalized by the Waxman - Markey cap - and - trade scheme.

Forget that the assumptions behind the EPA's proposed framework are extremely generous to the industry; and forget that the framework won't directly effect corn - based ethanol, which is grandfathered in by the 2007 Energy Act.

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But the models fail to account for dynamic reactions to a corn crop reduction (in this case a simple and very cost efficient response would be to end corn ethanol subsidies, thus redirecting corn to food rather than fuel, ending an inefficient industry and encouraging ethanol industries in tropical nations using sugar cane, which makes a lot more sense than corn ethanol).

Rather, it was a collaboration of politicians and ag industries in the leading corn states selling the rest of Congress on the idea that ethanol would decrease US dependence on foreign oil.

And just as we saw backlashes against drilling over Deepwater and now nuclear with Japan, imagine the backlash if the Midwest goes through a major drought while we still try to supply the ethanol industry with their corn.

This summer, expensive and rare corn has left 26 ethanol plants idle — some for more than a year — removing 1.5 billion gallons of production, according to the industry trade group, the Renewable Fuels Association.

When really pressed on why the USDA and the Obama administration continue to support corn based ethanol, they point to using it as helping support the fledgling cellulosic ethanol industry, which seems to always be just 5 years away from commercial viability.

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To protect their entirely subsidy reliant profits those renewable energy industries are now replete with massive lobbying organisations geared entirely, ie; corn ethanol as an example, one of many, towards protecting the entirely subsidy reliant profitability of the renewable energy industries.

Every day without those cleaner - burning fuels, the ethanol industry stays reliant on corn and the environmental effects mount.

The RFS has «destabilized corn and ethanol prices by offering an almost risk - free demand volume guaranty to the corn - based ethanol industry.»

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.

The ethanol industry is quick to point out that about a third of the corn it uses is converted not to ethanol, but to highly nutritious livestock feed, including a byproduct known as distillers grains.

But another statistic was barely noted, except by specialists: the department predicted that the use of corn by the ethanol industry would also decrease 10 percent in the forecast year, to 4.5 billion bushels.

But ethanol producers worry that the loss of the quota will undermine the ethanol industry and do little for corn farmers but drive down the price of their stunted harvest.

There's no industry set up yet; current corn ethanol relies on using the easily digestible food grain.

Naturally, this sent the US ethanol industry into a fit; under many analyses corn ethanol wouldn't fare too well.

The first large - scale commercial operation to produce cellulosic ethanol (the kind of ethanol made not from corn or other grown crops, but from organic waste) in the US just got major backing from the oil industry, and will be online in 2013.

The anti-ethanol crowd likes to make this fun calculation despite the fact that no one in the ethanol industry believes or promotes that all the corn in the U.S. should / will / can be used for ethanol production.

One reason Obama feels like he can shun the oil industry is that he comes from a «corn state» and has ties to the ethanol industry.

In a larger context, I am impressed with the increased press coverage the US corn ethanol program is receiving in mainstream media and non-energy industry publications.

In your opinion, is there any way to remedy the economic problems and industry folding that could result from such a frenzied investment in corn - based ethanol?

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According to the Daily Climate, the California regulators are prepared to go as far as to declare that biofuels can not help the state fight climate change — could this be the beginning of the end for ethanol?The Corn Ethanol Question The ethanol industry is obviously worried about the move, and is opposing it — they say cutting off investments in the technology now would prevent them from reaching their fuel efficiencyethanol?The Corn Ethanol Question The ethanol industry is obviously worried about the move, and is opposing it — they say cutting off investments in the technology now would prevent them from reaching their fuel efficiencyEthanol Question The ethanol industry is obviously worried about the move, and is opposing it — they say cutting off investments in the technology now would prevent them from reaching their fuel efficiencyethanol industry is obviously worried about the move, and is opposing it — they say cutting off investments in the technology now would prevent them from reaching their fuel efficiency goals.

And if there's an established precedent to follow... Then again, there's a huge corn industry in Iowa — a state whose economy Obama may be especially keen on supporting (I seem to recall certain pledges made to support ethanol way back in the now - prehistoric primaries).

The Trump administration seems to be leaning towards allying with the oil refining industry in its fight against Big Corn and federal rules requiring the use of corn ethaCorn and federal rules requiring the use of corn ethacorn ethanol.