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Canada currently maintains a 5 % domestic ethanol mandate on use while the U.S. is working towards a target of 136 billion liters of biofuels blended into transportation fuels by 2022.

Not exact matches

But one industry group — ethanol producers — is noting Pruitt's past differences with Trump on another hot - button EPA issue: the law that mandates the use of the crop - based gasoline additive.

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).

As Coral Davenport reported in a piece that ran on Sunday, the power of the ethanol mandate is waning for a variety of reasons — some national, but others within Iowa's boundaries:

As Coral Davenport reported in a piece that ran on Sunday, the power of the ethanol mandate is waning for a variety of reasons — some national, but others within Iowa's boundaries: Read more...

It's practically an entry - level badge for wonkhood on left and right to understand that ethanol mandates are environmentally damaging and economically inefficient and a textbook example of misguided environmental policy captured by special interests.

Instead, the ethanol boys get to keep the mandate on the books for the future, deterring capacity investment in non-ethanol additive production and keeping the whole racket going forever.

If ethanol were cheaper and people were voluntarily putting it in their gas (though why the mandate on the gas is there isn't 100 % clear), great.

We have wasted billions of dollars on such «strong» policies as coal - derived synfuels; subsidies for the commercialization of wind, solar and electric cars; and worst of all, the ethanol mandate.

One item on the President's schedule today is a meeting to discuss ethanol mandates and the Renewable Fuel Standard.

The Fill Up On Facts website is a great resource on the RFS, ethanol mandates and related issueOn Facts website is a great resource on the RFS, ethanol mandates and related issueon the RFS, ethanol mandates and related issues.

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.

The politics of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and its mandates for ever - increasing ethanol use are on display this weekend in Iowa, a key presidential primary state.

Ironically, using CAFE to decrease consumption while increasing the ethanol mandate will also have a significant impact on how much bang consumers get for their buck at the pump in terms of gas mileage.

Robert Zubrin thinks the United States can break free from the grip of Middle East oil - producing countries by immediately mandating that all cars sold in this country be «flex - fuel vehicles,» capable of running on gasoline, ethanol or methanol.

There's just one problem: Despite Washington's mandates — which fall on refiners and producers of motor fuels like ExxonMobil — cellulosic ethanol doesn't actually exist in any meaningful volumes.

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.

First, restrictions on trade are not normally good, but the fact that much of ethanol consumption is due to the renewable fuel standard mandate (and not market forces) complicates things.

«The Toomey - Feinstein partial repeal would make the RFS even more burdensome for Americans because it will focus the mandate on costly phantom fuels like cellulosic ethanol.

Corn ethanol does not need the mandate to survive in the market, and doing away with only the implied - corn ethanol part of the program would make the mandate worse by focusing it on expensive «advanced» biofuels.

But, as the failed US experience with the mandated and highly subsidized corn ethanol program has shown, this has negative side effects on overall farmland utilization and corn prices worldwide.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering scaling back legal requirements on the use of ethanol next year amid complaints from refiners that statutory mandates would exceed their ability to blend it into fuels without putting engines at risk.

Back in 2007, states passed renewable portfolio standards at the same time the George W. Bush Administration was patting itself on the back for enacting the renewable fuels standard — aka the ethanol mandate.

The agency is currently working on regulations for the oil and gas sector, and is finalizing new annual regulations for the nation's ethanol mandate and renewable fuel blending requirements.

Trump is weak on ethanol mandates and pretty good on most other issues.

The 2007 ethanol mandates called for the consumption of ethanol to rise from 0.6 MMB / D to 2.35 MMB / D by 2022 (left scale on Fig. 1).

Current mandates call for blends of renewables on the order of 10 - 20 % - a far cry from replacing gas with ethanol.