Sentences with phrase «demand for ethanol»

«The Demand for Ethanol as a Gasoline Substitute.»

Greco said API asked EPA to set the volume requirements no higher than 9.7 percent of gasoline demand to help avoid the blend wall and to protect strong consumer demand for ethanol - free fuel.

To make sure demand for ethanol will grow substantially, the association wants a federal mandate that all carmakers receiving federal aid would make only cars that can run on a blend of up to 85 percent ethanol, starting with the 2010 models.

Author Bruce Babcock, an Iowa State University economist, says that even if the mandate were waived immediately, it would be at least three months before a price change would hit the market because of sustained demand for ethanol by oil companies.

We have noted previously that demand for ethanol feedstocks has driven up the price of beer in Germany, tortillas in Mexico and pasta in Italy; Yesterday the Italians demonstrated that they have had enought of high prices and went on strike.Consumer

Not exact matches

I have been nibbling on this stock for the past few months as it too had a difficult 2015 with falling commodity prices hurting ethanol sales, along with a strong dollar and weakened overseas economies reducing demand for ADM products.

With feed costs and the worldwide demand for meat growing, livestock producers are increasingly turning to co-products from the ethanol and human food industries.

Ethanol demand in the U.S., for example, has caused some farmers to plant more corn and less soy.

«When you look at what our ethanol production is and compare that against what our demand for transportation fuels is, we won't get there,» says Virginia Lacy, a biofuels consultant at the Rocky Mountain Institute, a nonprofit energy policy organization in Colorado.

A growing global population is largely responsible for greater food demand but alternative fuels like ethanol also play role in increasing demand.

Ethanol makers experienced improved financial performance because of changes out of their control - as in the case of natural gas prices falling drastically in response to increased fracking for natural gas production - but lost money because of increased corn prices caused by escalating Chinese grain demand.

(05/01/2013) Intensification of Brazil's sugarcane industry in response to rising demand for sugar - based ethanol could have impacts on the regional climate reports a new study by researchers from Arizona State University, Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution for Science.

Lester R. Brown, «Exploding U.S. Grain Demand for Automotive Fuel Threatens World Food Security and Political Stability,» Plan B Update (Washington, DC: Earth Policy Institute, 3 November 2006); Lester R. Brown, «Distillery Demand for Grain to Fuel Cars Vastly Understated: World May Be Facing Highest Grain Prices in History,» Plan B Update (Washington, DC: Earth Policy Institute, 4 January 2007); F.O. Licht, World Ethanol and Biofuels Report, vol.

The combination of plug - in hybrids and bio-deisel (a much more energy - efficient fuel to make than ethanol) could significantly reduce developed world demand for oil for passenger transport.

To produce enough corn - based ethanol to meet current U.S. demand for automotive gasoline, we would need to nearly double the amount of land used for harvested crops, plant all of it in corn, year after year, and not eat any of it.»

And it Doesn't include the production of algae and duckweed, which is currently at 6,000 gallons per acre per year, for oil and ethanol respectively, plus co-product biomass that can go to feed or fuel depending on demand.

Intensification of Brazil's sugarcane industry in response to rising demand for sugar - based ethanol could have impacts on the regional climate reports a new study by researchers from Arizona State University,...

The growing sense of global urgency over our twin crisis — climate change and energy security — is now driving businesses to become green, consumers to demand green and policy makers to drive policies to accelerate the market adoption of green products.The most notorious subsidy is the 51 - cent gas credit for ethanol.»

Dr. Daniel Nepstad of the Woods Hole Research Center said the growing demand for corn ethanol means that more corn and less soy is being planted in the United States.

When demand for corn ethanol rose, so did corn prices, as did the acres diverted to corn production.

An ethanol mandate that causes little economic harm when unemployment rates are low, corn production is high, and China's demand for U.S. corn imports is low could inflict severe harm when the opposite conditions obtain — as they do today.

Even small diversions of corn supplies to ethanol could have dramatic implications for the world's poor, especially considering that researchers believe that food production will need to triple by the year 2050 to accommodate expected demand.

This study shows Brazilian sugarcane ethanol could displace up to 13 % of global crude oil consumption by 2045 whilst balancing forest conservation and future land demand for food.

Colorado corn acreage is expected to grow by 25 percent this year in response to the high demand for corn - based ethanol, but agricultural economists say fears of resulting higher food prices are largely unfounded.

The food group is suing because, as a result of EPA's E15 waiver, ethanol production will increase and demand for corn (a necessary raw material for ethanol) will rise significantly.

Reasonable questions are being raised regarding the sustainability of corn - based ethanol, and even 2nd generation industrial plantation based biofuel and biochar production; given finite land, fertilizers and water, and in the face of exponential increases in population and demand for energy.

But the growing appetite of ethanol refiners for the American corn crop has steadily driven up the price of food worldwide, while increased demand for corn has caused an rise in fertilizer use and pesticide - intensive agriculture in the United States.

Of course, not all of this crop is used for biofuels, but ethanol has driven up the domestic demand for corn (see chart below).

The combination of population growth, rising affluence, and the conversion of one third of the U.S. grain harvest into ethanol to fuel cars is expanding the world demand for grain by a record 43 million tons per year, double the annual growth of a decade ago.

«Even if we used all of our corn to make ethanol, with nothing left for food or animal feed, we could only displace perhaps 1.5 million barrels per day of this demand [U.S. consumption is 21 million barrels per day].

This has contributed to driving the cost of corn way up over the last year or two (there are other factors for the increase as well such as drought in Australia and booming demand among new middle classes in China and elsewhere but ethanol production is a big culprit).

Given the razor - thin spread between supply and demand for oil, I'm still not convinced that our corn ethanol production to date has not been a net positive when you factor everything and not just environment.