Sentences with phrase «ethanol blend wall»

API Downstream Group Director Bob Greco told reporters EPA is right to use its waiver authority to set the requirements below the original congressional mandate, calling it an acknowledgment of the «market limitations of the ethanol blend wall» — the amount of ethanol that can be safely blended into the fuel supply as E10 gasoline that's standard across the country.

Rather, the agency set ethanol requirements higher and higher with no apparent regard for falling U.S. gasoline consumption, allowing the RFS to drive the country headlong toward the «ethanol blend wall» — and potential harms from forcing more ethanol into the fuel supply than it can safely absorb.

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«This technology is a pathway to overcome the ethanol blend - wall,» Narula said.

The U.S. is about to hit the «blending wall,» the saturation point for ethanol use, because it does not have the infrastructure to meet the federal mandate for renewable - fuels use with ethanol.

I also don't see how cellulosic ethanol gets past the blend wall.

That flies in the face of the serious market distortions now manifesting in the «blend wall» at 10 % ethanol content in gasoline.

As biofuel mandates increase, the ethanol volume required for blending into gasoline will exceed 10 percent — known as the «E10 Blend Wall.»

If the ethanol mandate in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) required more, then you're running into the ethanol «blend wall» — that is, to satisfy the RFS, refiners would have to blend fuel with higher ethanol content than millions of vehicles are designed to use.

Information is available on the RFS itself, as well as problems that have made the program and its ethanol mandates untenable — like the refining «blend wall,» potential risks to vehicle and equipment engines and impacts on food prices.

A recent WSJ article explained how the ethanol mandate is leading to a «blend wall» that paradoxically leads U.S. refiners to export their gasoline, raising pump prices at home.

The issue is not ethanol, but the «blend wall».

... Consequently, refiners are up against a «blend wall» as the mandate forces them to purchase more ethanol than they can safely put into gasoline.»

... Oil industry proponents have said that the escalating requirements of ethanol to be added would force them to sell fuel blends exceeding 10 percent or export gasoline, a phenomenon known as «hitting the blend wall.»

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.

Reformulated gasolines absorbed the mandated ethanol volumes that stayed under the E10 blend wall (E10).

But the mandated ethanol volumes ratcheted up over time, and eventually, staying under the E10 blend wall would not be possible.

With an E10 blend wall, the full volume of ethanol mandated could no longer be met.