The phrase
"ethanol industry" refers to the group of companies and organizations involved in producing, distributing, and selling ethanol, which is a type of alcohol made from plants like corn or sugarcane.
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I would not advocate pulling the support out from under the
corn ethanol industry, but I would be looking for an exit strategy.
This system, now well established in the
Brazilian ethanol industry, is spreading to sugar mills in other countries that produce the remaining 80 percent of the world sugar harvest.
Naturally, this sent the US
ethanol industry into a fit; under many analyses corn ethanol wouldn't fare too well.
The corn -
based ethanol industry contributes $ 5 billion to the state's economy and is responsible for employing nearly 50,000 Iowans.
The corn and
ethanol industries already get federal help, before carbon capture money from the Department of Energy comes into play, he said.
The
US ethanol industry underwent restructuring and several substantial wind developers sold their portfolios.
Renewable Fuels Association (RFA), Homegrown for the Homeland:
Ethanol Industry Outlook 2005 (Washington, DC: 2005); corn per acre and ethanol per bushel approximated from Allen Baker et al., «Ethanol Reshapes the Corn Market,» Amber Waves, vol.
Such statistics defy modeling projections by demonstrating an ability to supply feedstock to a burgeoning
ethanol industry while simultaneously maintaining exports and using substantially less land.
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While higher commodity prices and cooperatively owned ethanol refineries could be a boon to independent farmers, unregulated
ethanol industry growth will further concentrate agribusiness, threatening the livelihood of rural communities.
By David Mercer Not long ago, the
fledgling ethanol industry was the darling of investors, farmers, the federal government and a lot of Americans who liked the idea of turning corn into fuel.
America's
ethanol industry worked hard to help bring President - elect Trump to the White House and continues to support his dedication to ensuring home - grown domestic energy security.»
Mr. Andreas's company, Archer Daniels Midland Company, dominates an
American ethanol industry that by most accounts would not exist without the estimated $ 6 billion in Federal subsidies it has received since Mr. Dole sponsored legislation establishing the tax break nearly 20 years ago.
Mr. Dole has helped erect trade barriers to foreign ethanol and has engineered an anonymous amendment that effectively shuttered the
Caibbean ethanol industry for three years.
We are concerned with America's
growing ethanol industry, the implications it has in setting a precedent for additional biomass based energy, and the massive agricultural industrialization of the world's remaining rainforests and other natural wildlands this would require.
As to other Alternate Fuels... even in Brasil, the
Sugar Ethanol industry only exists because of government subsidy... even then, ethanol is more expensive than gasoline at the gas station.
A recent Bloomberg story reported that he wants to bail out the financially
strapped ethanol industry, keep the protective tariffs on Brazilian ethanol in place, and is «fully committed to it and sees tremendous value in the renewable fuels standard and continuing down this path.»
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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.
The RFS has «destabilized corn and ethanol prices by offering an almost risk - free demand volume guaranty to the corn -
based ethanol industry.»
Absent subsidies, the
domestic ethanol industry would be much smaller, and would likely be blended in small amounts with gasoline.
Badal Saha, lead scientist at the fermentation biotechnology research unit of the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS), began his talk with a status report on the
fuel ethanol industry.
has a discussion and documentation, including energy balances, (actually EROI = 10.5 in this presentation) of some of the points I was trying to make with Ender about the highly evolved efficiency of the
Brazilian ethanol industry.
Brazil's
ethanol industry began its current phase of growth after Proálcool was phased out in 1999 and the government's role shifted from subsidies and regulations toward increased collaboration with the private sector in R&D.
«For the first time, the U.S.
ethanol industry will have the...
The shift adds to rising tension in
the ethanol industry.
«For the first time, the U.S.
ethanol industry will have the opportunity to compete for a portion of Japan's fuel blending market,» said Emily Skor, head of Washington - based ethanol group Growth Energy, in a statement.
And not incidentally, military veterans make up nearly 20 % of
the ethanol industry's workforce.
And
the ethanol industry is a classic story of American entrepreneurship.
I hadn't realized that entrepreneurs are the backbone of
the ethanol industry, nor had I realized the benefits of ethanol fuels.
Ingenuity, innovation, hard work...
the ethanol industry is the embodiment of American small business.»
«For the first time, the U.S.
ethanol industry will have the opportunity to compete for a portion of Japan's fuel blending market,» Emily Skor, head of Washington - based ethanol group Growth Energy, said in a statement.
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 I first looked into
the ethanol industry, there was this promise that the cellulose technology was just a few years away,» Lunz recalled.
From the start,
the ethanol industry has been dogged by concerns about its net energy balance — whether ethanol requires more fossil fuel to make than it replaces.