Sentences with phrase «corn ethanol subsidies»

Jacques Diouf, its head, reserved most of his reprobation for the U.S.'s billions of corn ethanol subsidies (roughly $ 12b in 2006), which he said were depriving developing countries of food, reports The Guardian's Julian Borger.He accused the U.S. of diverting close to 100 million tons of cereals from human consumption to «satisfy a thirst for fuel for vehicles.»

You kill corn ethanol subsidies.

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).

Also in the Post, Terence Corcoran wonders whether Corn Cob Bob — the friendly spokesmascot for the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association — will survive its ongoing battle with the C.D. Howe Institute, which recently released a report questioning the environmental and economic justifications for corn ethanol subsidies.

Not exact matches

Subsidies could also impact your grocery bill in the near future: the diversion of soybeans, corn and other edibles to ethanol production leaves less farmland to feed an every - growing world population.

In 2008, subsidies to produce corn ethanol reduced the amount of corn available for food.

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.

«GMA applauds today's overwhelming and bi-partisan support for an amendment offered by Senators Feinstein and Coburn to end wasteful subsidies for corn ethanol.

In another stroke of luck, New York dairy farmers have been well - positioned in recent years because they tend to grow much of their own feed corn, putting them at a competitive advantage over their larger California competitors: West Coast dairies are struggling with the high price of corn brought on by international demand, drought conditions and ethanol subsidies.

Second, the U.S. should end its misguided corn - to - ethanol subsidies.

When you go to Washington to get stuff, sometimes you get the wrong stuff, like subsidies for corn ethanol — the wrong feedstock for the wrong fuel.

Corn ethanol would have never been able to make it on its thermodynamic merits, and w / o subsidies would have been dead in the water years ago *.

I don't see how our subsidies for making ethanol from corn, for example, spill over to the production of high fructose corn syrup.

Be sure and thank your legislators for corn - based ethanol subsidies.

The food shortages and riots that have wracked the world in recent months, from the Philippines to Egypt to Haiti, have starkly dramatized the moral bankruptcy inherent in our government's continued subsidies for the production of corn ethanol.

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).

Trillions are spent on war where oil is the key political factor, hundreds of billions on subsidies for rich companies that reap huge short - term profits, both in fossil fuels and pseudo-green technologies like corn ethanol and biodiesel.

As we're seeing with corn based ethanol, the amount of subsidy is based entirely on political considerations and not on whether the fuel provides a public good.

For different reasons, sugar subsidies, ethanol subsidies, corn and wheat subsidies, really just about any farm subsidies that aren't based on preventing soil erosion.

We should phase out subsidies for corn ethanol as cellulose and other forms for making alternate fuels come on line.

«Direct cash payments to corn growers would be more economical than attempting to boost farm income through ethanol subsidies,» the report concluded.

But the study comes at a time when farmers and producers are already receiving federal subsidies to grow more corn for ethanol under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.

Mandates and subsidies for fossil - fuel intensive biofuels such as corn - derived ethanol are so large that eliminating or reducing them would almost certainly do more than a carbon tax to curb these fuels» artificial price advantage.

«Until cellulosic ethanol production is feasible, or corn - ethanol technology improves, corn - ethanol subsidies are a poor investment economically and environmentally,» Jackson explained.

From 2007 to 2013, corn ethanol interests spent $ 158 million lobbying for more mandates and subsidies — and $ 6 million in campaign contributions — for a fuel that reduces mileage, damages engines, requires enormous amounts of land, water and fertilizer, and from stalk to tailpipe emits more carbon dioxide than gasoline.

Former OMB analyst Ken Glozer demolishes the energy - security rationale for ethanol subsidies in Corn Ethanol: Who Pays, Who Benefits (April 2011), published by the conservative Hoover Instiethanol subsidies in Corn Ethanol: Who Pays, Who Benefits (April 2011), published by the conservative Hoover InstiEthanol: Who Pays, Who Benefits (April 2011), published by the conservative Hoover Institution.

Corn ethanol receives billions in subsidies despite conclusive science indicating its inefficient production provides little or no additional energy other than what is used for its production, and its ecological destructiveness in terms of land, water and climate.

Without out the subsidies and mandates and tarifs, corn fuel ethanol production would vanish.

By comparison The US oil consumption increased by 137.6 million barrels from 6851.4 mmbbls in 2009 to 6989.0 mmbbls in 2010 so this ethanol production did not stop the increase in US oil consumption and only served to raise the price of corn through government subsidies affecting only the poor.

As a source for ethanol, corn kernels are economically viable only because of high federal subsidies.

Despite decades of subsidies, corn ethanol has been unable to match the price of gasoline.

They say the technological fixes also distract from more challenging social reforms like slowing the rate of population growth, shifting away from crops like corn ethanol that don't put food on the table, or ending subsidies for livestock production, which currently eats up an appalling 75 percent of the world's agricultural land.

In practice, «alternative energy» subsidies have overwhelmingly gone to things like corn ethanol, nuclear energy, «clean coal,» and hydrogen; the way things are going we can expect liquid coal to hop on the bandwagon as well.

Adding corn Ethanol to gasoline reduces gas mileage, increases the price of food and transportation, is unprofitable without government subsidies, creates more greenhouse gases in its manufacture than unadulterated gasoline, and can damage older engines.

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.

As our host states above, ethanol from starch (corn or wheat, as used in the EU) was supposed to be a pump primer for cellulosic ethanol, but has become an end in itself as an agricultural subsidy.

Regardless whether the Ag chair was a Republican or a Democrat, the Committee, which is dominated by corn - belt politicians, showered ethanol with subsidies and give - aways - and even a Soviet - style production quota that forces consumers to use it.

have also introduced S. 530, which would limit the VEETC to «advanced biofuels,» thus ending the subsidy for conventional corn ethanol.

But a farmer can grow more corn, or less cattle, and send corn to an ethanol plant, and still make money, especially if there's a subsidy.

The corn - to - ethanol subsidy in the USA was not aimed at reducing GHG emissions, or even its ostensible purpose of reducing dependence on foreign oil, but at raising the price of corn to put money into farmers» pockets.

Regardless, dropping ethanol subsidies is probably a smart idea — corn ethanol is a huge water and energy suck, some speculate its production has led to food shortages, and is generally far from the fuel of the future it was once hoped to be.

... Many people argue that making corn - based ethanol is more of an agricultural subsidy for farmers than it is a sound environmental policy.Things get even dodgier for biofuels when you look at the land area that would be needed to grow fuel crops.

Even subsidies that seem quite good at first usually later turn out to be bad (corn ethanol) because of the law of unintended consequences, and governments are very bad at picking the right technologies because of political interference, pressure by special interests and multi-year lag in decision - making.

In today's speech, Mr. Bloomberg called for four key measures on climate change: a vast increase in energy - related research and development; an end to certain agricultural subsidies, especially that of corn - based ethanol; an increase in federal fuel efficiency standards for vehicles; and laws to make pollution more expensive for companies.

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.

Corn - ethanol will continue to be produced if it makes economic sense, without tax subsidies.

Does it ever make sense for the government to select one «winner», such as corn ethanol, for subsidies?

I suspect it'll be a while yet before we see any dent in the massive government subsidies for corn — with ethanol looking worse and worse as a viable alternative fuel, hopefully California's ruling will at least bring attention to the issue.

I agree it's not sustainable, and I don't support additional subsidies (if ending the subsidies ends corn ethanol, then so be it).