Sentences with phrase «corn ethanol policies»

Looks like «greens» and oil companies need to join forces to fight against big ag and corn ethanol policies.

Not exact matches

The nation's energy policy calls for so much ethanol that it consumes 40 % of the corn produced in the United States.

It is our ethanol producer's policy to procure corn from crop sources that have received international regulatory approval.

The 2005 Energy Policy Act mandates a minimum of 7.5 billion gallons of domestic renewable - fuel production, which will overwhelmingly be corn - based ethanol, by 2012.

Explaining the Reductions in U.S. Corn Ethanol Processing Costs: Testing Competing Hypotheses, Xiaoguang Chen, Madhu Khanna, Energy Policy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2012.01.032, February 9, 2012.

U.S. organizations promoting the global use of ethanol will continue to work closely with the Japanese government as it implements its new policy and provide updated technical information about GHG reductions and other benefits of corn - based ethanol.

The lead author of one of the studies referenced in Elisabeth Rosenthal's recent article says in a policy brief that ``... switching from gasoline to corn ethanol doubles greenhouse gas emissions for every mile driven.»

The reason a listening tour is the next step, and not a pre-packaged batch of legislation or other steps, is to build on the common ground across a wide range of Americans on energy thrift, innovation and fair play (meaning policies that distort the playing field, with mandated corn ethanol production and tax breaks for fossil fuel companies prime examples).

If there were some rational means of computing these costs and applying them through taxes or subsidies, that would be sound policy, but I hope we've all noticed how that really works out in practice (see corn ethanol).

Ethanol made from corn is wrong policy, make so many people starvation.

So, I'll let others discuss their state's particulars, but for Nebraska, a drive to promote renewables — corn stover ethanol in particular — is precisely the wisest state policy.

That doesn't mean that corn to ethanol is a great policy or that it should be expanded (and it especially indicates it shouldn't be subsidized) but there is nobody starving because some of America's corn is being converted to ethanol.

And a 2009 study led by Robert Jackson, who at the time was the Nicholas Professor of Global Environmental Change at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, concluded that plowing up untilled land to grow more corn for ethanol fuel is «an inefficient and expensive greenhouse gas mitigation policy.»

«Converting set - asides to corn - ethanol production is an inefficient and expensive greenhouse gas mitigation policy that should not be encouraged until ethanol - production technologies improve,» the study's authors report in the journal Ecological Applications.

«One of our take - home messages is that conservation programs are currently a cheaper and more efficient greenhouse gas policy for taxpayers than corn - ethanol production,» said study leader and Duke biologist Robert Jackson.

Analyses by the University of Missouri Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, Iowa State University (in the heart of corn country), and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) find that the mandate chiefly determines how much ethanol is produced over the next five years.

Ethanol from Corn production has never been a green policy.

Put simply, ethanol policies have created significantly higher corn prices, tighter supplies, and increased volatility.

Because of this policy, ethanol production now consumes approximately 40 percent of the U.S. corn crop, and the cost of corn for use in food production has increased by 193 percent since 2005 [the year before the RFS took effect].

Anonymous, I agree about corn ethanol being a pretty bad energy or environmental policy.

If I remember correctly, «ethanol fuel from corn» was cast into policy by the Bush administration not the environmentalists (surprise?).

The consequences are so severe that environmentalists and many scientists have now rejected corn - based ethanol as bad environmental policy.

When the Obama administration finalized its policy, corn ethanol scored 21 percent better than gasoline, barely crossing the key threshold.

Current ethanol policy has increased and destabilized corn and related commodity prices to the detriment of both food and fuel producers.

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.

Proposed causes such as shortages of grain due to adverse weather, increasing meat consumption in China and India, conversion of corn to ethanol in the US, and investor speculation on commodity markets lead to widely differing implications for policy.

«THE NET ENERGY BALANCE OF CORN ETHANOL» Roger Conway Office of Energy Policy and New Uses / USDA

Thankfully, Barack Obama has indicated that he wants to advance cellulosic ethanol research, but we mustn't rest on that assurance alone and continue to monitor his commitment here so that he doesn't get swayed by the corn lobby into, as the original article suggests (perhaps prematurely), continue the failed policies of the Bush administration in promoting biofuels.

Opening a UN food crisis summit in Rome, Jacques Diouf attacked the subsidies for corn ethanol during a wide - ranging critique of global policies on climate change and food security, which he said were slanted to favour the west.

For instance, Congress is currently subsidizing corn - based ethanol at 50 cents a gallon — and you can argue that's good agricultural policy, but you can't argue that it's good for consumers or the environment.

The Japanese government's new biofuel policy will allow imports of ETBE (Ethyl Tert - Butyl Ether) made from US corn - based ethanol.